Gun Control

[Dos Equis]

[tonymctones]

Unfortunately Shiela Jackson Lee is my representative. The ironic part is that constituents from half her district are responsible for a lot of crime here in Houston and will be subject to a lot of additional jail time. That is if the judges in this town actually put/keep anyone in jail.

Also suppressors are an FFA item and require a tax stamp which takes months to get...why would you need an additional 7 day waiting period for something that took months to get? This is more of people who have no idea about gun ownership or gun laws making laws about guns.

[Skeletor]

Creepy Joe calls on Congress to enact more gun control legislation.

This Administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer. Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets. We owe it to all those we’ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/14/statement-by-the-president-three-years-after-the-parkland-shooting/

[Soul Crusher]

Creepy Joe calls on Congress to enact more gun control legislation.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/14/statement-by-the-president-three-years-after-the-parkland-shooting/

Unbelievable.   Of everything going on right now.    FUJB!    GFY!

[Coach is Back!]

The left will start a war they can’t finish....from my cold...dead...hands

[Moontrane]

Creepy Joe calls on Congress to enact more gun control legislation.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/14/statement-by-the-president-three-years-after-the-parkland-shooting/

I haven't seen the gun homicide numbers for 2020, but I believe that they are significantly higher than 2019's numbers.

2019: 10,28 firearm homicides, 364 of them by rifle, and some fraction of that 364 were by a semiautomatic rifles life the AR-15.  1,562 homicides by blades, 466 by blunt object, and 688 by beatings (ban knuckles!).

AR-15 homicides aren't tracked by the FBI or law enforcement, so any lawmaker claiming that banning them will reduce firearm homicides will have no data to support such a ban.  Aren't the Left the party of science, you know, empirical data? 

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls

[Skeletor]

Even more gun control bills...

https://maloney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/maloney-joins-with-gun-safety-advocates-to-introduce-gun-safety

BILL SUMMARIES

The Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act:

Prohibits Firearms Trafficking: The bill prohibits the purchase or transfer of a firearm if the intent is to deliver it to someone else who is prohibited by Federal or State law from possessing one.
Strengthens Penalties for Straw Purchasers: The bill strengthens penalties for “straw purchasers” who intentionally provide false or misleading material information when they purchase firearms from Federal Firearms Licensees. The bill reclassifies such acts as felonies, instead of misdemeanors, as they currently are under law.
Enhances Penalties for Kingpins and Multiple Illegal Purchases: The bill provides enhanced penalties for organizers or managers of firearms trafficking networks and recommends that the Sentencing Commission increase penalties for multiple illegal gun purchases. The bill reclassifies such acts as felonies, instead of misdemeanors, as they currently are under law.
 

The Gun Show Loophole Closing Act:

Subjects gun sales and transfers at gun shows to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and require that transfers are reported to the Attorney General.
Requires gun show operators to register with the Attorney General and notify the AG of the details of upcoming shows, including the identity of all firearm vendors, as well as keep a record of all vendors’ identities.
Allows the ATF to hire investigators to inspect gun shows and examine records kept by gun show operators and vendors.
 

The NICS Review Act:

Replaces the current 24 hour maximum with a 90 day minimum retention period to allow the FBI and ATF at least 90 days to audit the background check system to make sure the process is working effectively.
Makes it more difficult for dangerous individuals to skirt the law and the safeguards already in place.


The Firearm Risk Protection Act:

Prohibits Firearms Trafficking: The bill requires all gun purchasers to hold qualified liability insurance and restricts retail gun sales without proof of coverage.
Strengthens protections for victims of gun violence: The bill protects victims by ensuring that liability insurance covers a victim's medical expenses due to gun violence.
Ensures responsible gun ownership: The bill enacts fines towards violators of the provision up to $10,000 for not insuring firearms.


The Handgun Trigger Safety Act:

Authorizes grants to develop and improve “personalized” handgun technology to increase efficacy and decrease costs.
Mandates that within 5 years of enactment all newly manufactured handguns must be personalized, ensuring that they can only be operated by authorized users.
Mandates that within 10 years of enactment anyone selling a handgun must retrofit it with personalization technology before that sale can be completed.
Provides reimbursement to manufacturers for the costs of retrofitting handguns through the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund.

[Grape Ape]

First paragraph, on the surface, seems fine.

The insurance one is complete bullshit.  It's just a cost deterrent.

[Skeletor]

House Passes Gun-Control Measures Backed by Democrats

The House passed a pair of gun-control bills that were blocked in the last Congress, a priority for Democratic leaders frustrated by years of little success on the issue amid broad Republican opposition.

The vote was 227 to 203 on a measure to expand background checks to nearly all gun sales. 8 Republicans supported the bill, while 1 Democrat opposed it.

The House separately voted to extend the window for background checks to 10 days from three days, giving law-enforcement authorities more time to vet individuals before they can buy guns. The vote was 219-210, also mostly along party lines, with 2 Republicans voting in favor and 2 Democrats against.

Both gun measures passed the House in 2019, after Democrats regained control of the chamber in the midterm elections, but languished in the Senate when then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) declined to schedule votes.

The legislation’s prospects in the now Democratic-controlled Senate are uncertain, but the effort could provide more momentum to the party’s effort to change the rules in the closely divided chamber to make it easier to pass bills.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-push-gun-control-measures-opposed-by-republicans-11615464001

[ThisisOverload]

But but but Biden said he isn't going to take our guns.

[Coach is Back!]

House Passes Gun-Control Measures Backed by Democrats

The House passed a pair of gun-control bills that were blocked in the last Congress, a priority for Democratic leaders frustrated by years of little success on the issue amid broad Republican opposition.

The vote was 227 to 203 on a measure to expand background checks to nearly all gun sales. 8 Republicans supported the bill, while 1 Democrat opposed it.

The House separately voted to extend the window for background checks to 10 days from three days, giving law-enforcement authorities more time to vet individuals before they can buy guns. The vote was 219-210, also mostly along party lines, with 2 Republicans voting in favor and 2 Democrats against.

Both gun measures passed the House in 2019, after Democrats regained control of the chamber in the midterm elections, but languished in the Senate when then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) declined to schedule votes.

The legislation’s prospects in the now Democratic-controlled Senate are uncertain, but the effort could provide more momentum to the party’s effort to change the rules in the closely divided chamber to make it easier to pass bills.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-push-gun-control-measures-opposed-by-republicans-11615464001

I’d like to know which Republicans voted for it

[OzmO]

The Firearm Risk Protection Act:

Prohibits Firearms Trafficking: The bill requires all gun purchasers to hold qualified liability insurance and restricts retail gun sales without proof of coverage.
Strengthens protections for victims of gun violence: The bill protects victims by ensuring that liability insurance covers a victim's medical expenses due to gun violence.
Ensures responsible gun ownership: The bill enacts fines towards violators of the provision up to $10,000 for not insuring firearms.

 .  another way insurance companies influence laws to help them make more money?

[ThisisOverload]

.  another way insurance companies influence laws to help them make more money?

Looks like a bunch of my firearms just went missing.

Such a shame.

I couldn't imagine paying for gun insurance. When you consider how many guns there are in America, then consider how rare it is for someone to get shot by a "legal" one. It's pretty silly.

[Coach is Back!]

I’d like to know which Republicans voted for it

.

[Coach is Back!]

Looks like a bunch of my firearms just went missing.

Such a shame.

I couldn't imagine paying for gun insurance. When you consider how many guns there are in America, then consider how rare it is for someone to get shot by a "legal" one. It's pretty silly.

Pretty sure I’ll lose mine in a boating accident

[chaos]

First paragraph, on the surface, seems fine.

The insurance one is complete bullshit.  It's just a cost deterrent.

First one is already a crime.

[Skeletor]

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Vern Buchanan (FL) received an "A-" rating from the NRA in 2017 and has since been in favor of more gun control.

Brian Fitzpatrick (PA) has been endorsed by the extremists at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

In the 2016 presidential election, Gimenez (FL) had endorsed Hillary Clinton (!!!).

Salazar (FL) said that she might back an assault weapons ban.

Upton (MI) supported a bill that requires background checks for private firearm sales and has called for a bipartisan red flag law to be passed by Congress.

The others are from New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois so what did you expect, apparently even the Republicans there support gun control.

[AsianExpat]

No Republican should have a gun.

They're prone to cult violence/ terrorism.

They are also too dumb to use them properly.

End of thread.

[Dos Equis]

No Republican should have a gun.

They're prone to cult violence/ terrorism.

They are also too dumb to use them properly.

End of thread.

Virginia shooting: gunman was leftwing activist with record of domestic violence
James ‘Tom’ Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old white man killed during a shootout with police, was previously arrested for domestic battery
Steve Scalise in ‘critical condition’, hospital says
Oliver Laughland in Belleville and Jon Swaine
Thu 15 Jun 2017

James “Tom” Hodgkinson, the gunman who shot congressman Steve Scalise during an attack on a Republican congressional baseball practice session on Wednesday, was a leftwing political activist with a record of domestic violence.

Hodgkinson, 66, died from injuries sustained during a shootout with police. He was previously based in Belleville, Illinois, but had been living in Alexandria, Virginia, the site of Wednesday’s shooting, for the past two months.

. . .

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/14/virginia-shooting-suspect-james-t-hodgkinson-leftwing-activist

[Coach is Back!]

No Republican should have a gun.

They're prone to cult violence/ terrorism.

They are also too dumb to use them properly.

End of thread.

Ignore this gimmick. He literally hasn’t clue of what he’s talking about.

[Skeletor]

The undead dinosaur is at it again.

Dianne Feinstein's Latest 'Assault Weapon' Bill Is Just As Illogical As All the Previous Ones



Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) yesterday introduced an "updated" version of her proposed ban on "military-style assault weapons," invoking "domestic terrorism" as a justification. "We're now seeing a rise in domestic terrorism," she says, "and military-style assault weapons are increasingly becoming the guns of choice for these dangerous groups." Yet her bill, which so far has attracted 34 cosponsors in the Senate, makes no more sense as a response to terrorism than it does as a response to mass shootings.

The Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, like the Feinstein-sponsored 1994 ban that expired in 2004, would prohibit the manufacture and sale of numerous arbitrarily defined firearms, including some of the most popular rifles sold in the United States. It lists "205 military-style assault weapons" by name and also covers other guns with features Feinstein does not like. It would ban any semiautomatic rifle that accepts a detachable magazine and has "a pistol grip," "a forward grip," a folding or telescoping stock, "a grenade launcher," "a barrel shroud," or "a threaded barrel."

In contrast with the 1994 definition, which required two or more "military-style" features, Feinstein's new proposal, like the bills she has been sponsoring since 2013, says one is enough to make a rifle intolerable. Feinstein also continues to fiddle with her list of prohibited features. She no longer thinks we need to worry about bayonet mounts, but she is now sounding the alarm about the ominous barrel shroud, a covering that protects the shooter's hand from the heat generated by firing a rifle. And while her 2013 list included "a rocket launcher," that has since been excised, although "grenade launcher" is still there.

https://reason.com/2021/03/12/dianne-feinsteins-latest-assault-weapon-bill-is-just-as-illogical-as-all-the-previous-ones/

[Moontrane]

The undead dinosaur is at it again.

Dianne Feinstein's Latest 'Assault Weapon' Bill Is Just As Illogical As All the Previous Ones



Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) yesterday introduced an "updated" version of her proposed ban on "military-style assault weapons," invoking "domestic terrorism" as a justification. "We're now seeing a rise in domestic terrorism," she says, "and military-style assault weapons are increasingly becoming the guns of choice for these dangerous groups." Yet her bill, which so far has attracted 34 cosponsors in the Senate, makes no more sense as a response to terrorism than it does as a response to mass shootings.

The Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, like the Feinstein-sponsored 1994 ban that expired in 2004, would prohibit the manufacture and sale of numerous arbitrarily defined firearms, including some of the most popular rifles sold in the United States. It lists "205 military-style assault weapons" by name and also covers other guns with features Feinstein does not like. It would ban any semiautomatic rifle that accepts a detachable magazine and has "a pistol grip," "a forward grip," a folding or telescoping stock, "a grenade launcher," "a barrel shroud," or "a threaded barrel."

In contrast with the 1994 definition, which required two or more "military-style" features, Feinstein's new proposal, like the bills she has been sponsoring since 2013, says one is enough to make a rifle intolerable. Feinstein also continues to fiddle with her list of prohibited features. She no longer thinks we need to worry about bayonet mounts, but she is now sounding the alarm about the ominous barrel shroud, a covering that protects the shooter's hand from the heat generated by firing a rifle. And while her 2013 list included "a rocket launcher," that has since been excised, although "grenade launcher" is still there.

https://reason.com/2021/03/12/dianne-feinsteins-latest-assault-weapon-bill-is-just-as-illogical-as-all-the-previous-ones/

She had me at grenade launcher.  < >

Missing from her list of 205 firearms is the Ruger Mini 14 Ranch rifle, which functions identically to the AR-15, uses the same ammo, and accommodates the same size magazines.

But it's less lethal because of its wood stock.  The risk of splinters causes the shooter to fire slower.   

[chaos]

Bitches need a good chankla beating.

[ThisisOverload]

What is a military style assault weapon?

[chaos]

What is a military style assault weapon?

Assault is an action, therefore any weapon is an assault weapon.