Feinstein bringing a Bushmaster assault rifle to Senate to unveil gun bill
en. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) is expected to bring “a bunch of assault weapons” — including a Bushmaster rifle like the one used to slaughter 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut — to the Senate on Thursday when she introduces a bill to ban the military-style weapons.
Democratic sources told CNN on Thursday that Feinstein’s staff had “coordinated completely” Washington Metropolitan Police Department and U.S. Capitol Police to ensure that the transport and display of the weapons was legal under current law.
NBC host David Gregory had recently narrowly avoided prosecution after he allegedly broke D.C. law by holding up a high-capacity magazine to make a point during an interview with National Rifle Association (NRA) head Wayne LaPierre.
“I’m told that she will have more than one assault weapon,” CNN’s Dana Bash reported on Thursday. “And she’s going to have them on display… The reason she is going to do this, I’m told, is to show specifically her fellow Democrats — conservative Democrats, which there are half a dozen [or] even more very reluctant to do anything to change the assault weapons laws — that you don’t need these kinds guns in the hands of regular, ordinary, average people.”
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