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"I'm going to introduce in the Senate, and the same bill will be introduced in the House -- a bill to ban assault weapons," Feinstein said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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"Who needs these military-style assault weapons? Who needs an ammunition feeding device capable of holding 100 rounds?" Feinstein wrote on her campaign website. "These weapons are not for hunting deer -- theyre for hunting people."
On Sunday Feinstein laid out details of the bill.
"It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession, not retroactively, but prospectively," and ban the sale of clips of more than ten bullets, Feinstein said. "The purpose of this bill is to get... weapons of war off the streets."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/dianne-feinstein-assault-weapons-ban_n_2311477.html
I say we also do big Buy-Back programs and motivate sales with a slow-to-activate complete ban.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)long as we keep moving forward with more 10% all the time
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Probably, any such attempts will drive up sales.
Hmmm....
bossy22
(3,547 posts)I think an ammo ban and some improvement to NICS will be the end result if anything actually does happen
kelly1mm
(4,734 posts)bossy22
(3,547 posts)i forgot to put that word in
I look at the whole thing this way- if legislation is going to be passed it is going to be a comprimise of some sort. If the starting position is the AWB in all likelihood the result will be something more watered down with some provisions of the AWB included in it. I feel the magazine ban has the best chance of being that piece that does get incorporated.
kelly1mm
(4,734 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Maybe no magazines larger than offered with the weapon, no extended magazine for handguns. Improved NICS is no brainer, but there will be strings attached
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)it will make the 2010 election look like a Communist take over. The President's whole agenda will be undone and any hopes we had to make any progress in the next two years will be deader that reagan.
Push this POS through and we'll lose the Senate and get a veto-proof republican majority in the House in 2014.
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)And add on.
Johonny
(20,874 posts)putting something anything to a vote in the senate that didn't get filibustered would be a positive step. Either way anything that isn't about the fiscal cliff would at least be interesting to talk about. It would also put more pressure on the house to hold a vote on it. My guess is the Republicans will not let an up or down vote to occur.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)brooklynite
(94,684 posts)The new Congress hasn't even come into office, and most of the Republicans are from relatively safe districts that still support gun rights. very unlikely that an AWB will pass.