U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Everyone’s favorite gun-grabbing Senator, Dianne Feinstein, is back at it again with more anti-gun legislation. This time she is using the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida to push her political agenda on the American Public.
A gun free zone and high school in Parkland, Florida was a recent scene of a mass shooting carried out by a mentally disturbed man named, Nicholas Cruz. The FBI was tipped off about Cruz’s plan to execute a mass shooting at the school, but they failed to act on the information. Police took Cruz into custody after he killed 17 of his former classmates.
Sen. Feinstein (D-Ca) from San Franciso has said she is going to introduce a bill in the Senate that would raise the age to purchase a rifle from 18 years old to 21 years old. The 18-year-olds, who serve in the military, will still be able to carry a gun in combat. They just will not be allowed to buy one when they return home from protecting our freedom from the people that want to kill us.
“Under current law, licensed gun dealers cannot sell a handgun to anyone under 21, but they are allowed to sell assault rifles like the AR-15 to anyone over 18,” Feinstein said of the current laws. “This policy is dangerous and makes absolutely no sense.”
Feinstein demonstrated in her statement that she doesn’t understand what constitutes an assault rifle. An assault rifle is a heavily regulated select fire firearm that cost thousands of dollars. Private collectors cannot buy any assault rifles made after 1986. The AR15 is not an assault rifle and is not a select-fire rifle.
It is undetermined if Feinstein calling an AR15 an assault rifle is a mistake, or if she was making an attempted to fool the general public. Since she has to know her bill will not make it out of committee, this could also be an attempt to satisfy the far left wing of the Democratic party.
“If you can’t buy a handgun or a bottle of beer, you shouldn’t be able to buy an AR-15,” Feinstein went on to say. “This is common sense, and I hope my Republican colleagues will join me in this effort.”
What Feinstein doesn’t explain is how it isn’t “common sense” to know that criminals don’t obey the laws. Murder is already illegal so if a person already violates one of the ten commandments and something that is illegal in every country in the world why would they obey gun laws? Wouldn’t it be “common sense” that these evil people wouldn’t follow the law?
This bill isn’t the first time Senator Feinstein exploited a tragedy to push her far left anti-gun agenda. After the Las Vegas shooting in October, where Stephen Paddock killed over 50 people, she introduced the “Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act.” This act would have banned bump stocks. It never made it out of committee.
Undeterred by her repeated failures a month later she introduced a so-called “assault weapons ban.” This bill would have banned cosmetic features on firearms as well as imposing a magazine size limit which would prohibit any magazine that holds over ten rounds. According to the Clinton era justice department, the Bill Clinton assault weapons ban had little to no effect. Once again this bill also died in committee.
The bill will be dead on arrival, but Feinstein will continue to push her anti-gun agenda. Dianne Feinstein has ignored the mental health issues that have been at the root of every one of these mass shootings. Feinstein seems to be using the NRA as her boogyman to raise money.
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Lance, it could be like it is in my state, where one must be 21 to purchase a handgun from and FFL, but only 18 to possess it or buy it privately. This also allows transfers between people, friends, family, etc., as long as the person in possession of the firearm isn’t a prohibited person. Also, there is no age limit when one is on private property, or while hunting with a person of age.
My first question to this proposal is what will the government do about those 18-20 year olds that already own an AR15 or an AK-47? A conservative guess would be 100,000 or more young people currently own these types of firearms. Does Feinstien think they’ll be able to confiscate those without any resistance? If this were passed, I suspect there would be an extremely large increase in sales prior to enactment. Same thing with a ban.
This just in: ” Sen. Dianne Feinstein failed to win the official endorsement of the California Democratic Party as she seeks her fifth term in Washington…” Turmoil in the Democrat party? Diane not liberal enough to overcome her “whiteness”? The minorities and illegal aliens prove prejudice against a white woman liberal? Victim of her own “No borders/white people are bad/ Socialist” politics? Will the DNC put the fix in for Diane, like they did for hiLIARy, against the wishes of the CDP?
ok, then make everyone minors till they are 21. None of this halfway stuff. no draft registering, no military service, no smoking, no guns. Children till they are 21.
With her finger on the trigger, and blood on her hands, Feinstein has profited from the death of Moscone. Continued to climb the political ladder by stepping on the lives of preborn babies, grabbing guns along the way. There is no extend to the evil deeds she is willing to commit to justify her political motives.
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Conroe – What about driving license? Voting? Joining the military? Careful where you start, you may not like where you end up!
I find it hard to take issue with raising the age for purchasing a long gun from 18 to 21. There should be an exception for those who serve or are serving in the military.
And while they’re at it, how about raising the age for drinking and voting to 21.
Feinstein has that AK done up like a Thompson sub (notice the circular mag and her in pinstripes with her finger on the trigger) to fool the masses into thinking the semiauto is really an auto and only criminals (think Ma Barker or Bonnie and Clyde) would have one. What masterful spin she gives her side of the argument. I hope the NRA can combat this crap with reason and their own spin. How about an armed teacher initiative and police officers on-site, that might deter armed, mentally ill, homocidal criminals from invading our schools. Raising the age to own… Read more »
Dont forget that no matter what we do to appease the public at large. And how much we give in. Our Constitution is eroding every year. The new society of today calls for new changes and they have no clue to how it will effect there own future. Yes they have no clue what it is to have a gun free america. We will all be subject to all those who take over our way of life. And then they will realized what they have given up. U young folks out there please study up on past histories of those… Read more »