U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- As House Democrats, joined by eight Republicans, were passing two background check bills, anti-gun Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) were introducing legislation to ban so-called “assault weapons,” fulfilling with lightning speed a prediction from national gun rights advocate Alan Gottlieb.
Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Gottlieb said House passage of the extremist background check measures would “open the pathway” for even worse legislation. While his remarks were aimed at Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s H.R. 127—mandating gun owner licensing, registration, psychological examination, mandatory gun-owner insurance, and prison for non-compliance—he could just as easily been talking about Feinstein’s long-sought ban. CCRKBA is currently running a nationwide TV campaign to warn gun owners about this legislation.
Taking to social media, New Jersey attorney and rights advocate Evan Nappen wrote that the 35 people signing onto Feinstein’s legislation were “Oath-Breakers, Rights-Takers, Gun Bigots, Liberty-Haters, Bought & Owned by Bloomturd (and) Pearl-Clutchers.”
Nappen was alluding to Feinstein and her co-sponsors: Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).
Those agreeing with Nappen’s premise accused backers of the bills of “treason.”
According to Fox News, Feinstein noted in her introductory statement, “It’s been 17 years since the original Assault Weapons Ban expired. To be clear, this bill saves lives. When it was in place from 1994-2004, gun massacres declined by 37 percent compared with the decade before. After the ban expired, the number of massacres rose by 183 percent. We’re now seeing a rise in domestic terrorism, and military-style assault weapons are increasingly becoming the guns of choice for these dangerous groups. I’m hopeful that with the new administration and Democratic control of the Senate, we can finally pass commonsense gun reforms to remove these deadly weapons from our communities.”
Cicilline chimed in, “Assault weapons are designed for a single purpose – to kill as many people as possible in as short an amount of time as possible. That’s why they are the weapon of choice for mass shooters and domestic terrorists. They are weapons of war and do not belong in our communities. Banning these weapons will make our cities and towns safer and more secure and help to reduce gun deaths.”
Feinstein’s announcement included a list of key provisions:
- Bans the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of 205 military-style assault weapons by name. Owners may keep existing weapons.
- Bans any assault weapon with the capacity to utilize a magazine that is not a fixed ammunition magazine and has one or more military characteristics including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock. Owners may keep existing weapons.
- Bans magazines and other ammunition feeding devices that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, which allow shooters to quickly fire many rounds without needing to reload. Owners may keep existing magazines.
- Requires a background check on any future sale, trade or gifting of an assault weapon covered by the bill.
- Requires that grandfathered assault weapons are stored using a secure gun storage or safety device like a trigger lock.
- Prohibits the transfer of high-capacity ammunition magazines.
- Bans bump-fire stocks and other devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at fully automatic rates.
Right upfront in Feinstein’s bill there is this notation: “To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.” (Emphasis added.)
You read that right. This legislation acknowledges it designed to limit the right to keep and bear arms. The legislation may be read here.
About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
No quotation marks necessary. It is treason.
These people swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. This is not just seeking to undermine it, which they do constantly. This is directly contradicting it.
Yes Sir, that is TYRANNY and there is a legal, judicious, well earned, righteous, very final, punnishment for TYRANNY. Since everyone deserves their day in court and since they both have enough money and power to be a significant flight risk they should not be permitted bail. Also, because prison clothing costs money they should be tarred and feathered to be used as prison clothing throughout the length of their cases and when found guilty they should be publicly hanged and this should be televised to instill some semblance of equal justice for all. All of this should be done… Read more »
A fraudulent and illegal government can only be Treasonous. There is only one way to handle legislation like this if it should be pushed at us under Color of Law. The Rubicon is about to be crossed.
If we could get rid of Democrats, the Country would be better off. Oh, and RINOs also.
They swear to defend the constitution then immediately try and circumvent it. So are they traitors or stupid? A question that each one should have to answer
The Progressive New Left, aka the Democrat Party has already endorsed Soviets in major cities coast to coast. The autonomous zones of Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland are good examples of how they have applied the Prairie Fire Manifesto to currently existing Progressive Utopias. Apparently they think that red states, counties, cities and neighborhoods are not capable of doing the same. What they forget is that those of us who cling to our Bibles and our semiautomatic rifles also cling to our enumerated rights. We are more than capable of responding in kind. The difference is this: we routinely shoot elk… Read more »
All of it is hogwash.(The bill I mean) Especially Feinstein. Must be an old picture if the guns on the wall are at a gunshop. Otherwise there might be one gun on that wall.
These treasonous idiots pushing this anti American , unconstitutional agenda won’t be happy till they spark a civil war and then it will blow up in thier faces and then they will label us as domestic terrorists . The facts are that they are violating thier oath to the constitution and become illegitimate at that point and thier unconstitutional crap is also not legitimate just like Joe Biden is as our president . He is not ! They think they can keep pushing these lies but it will come with a price . MOLON LABE !
This garbage is possible because too many gun owners sit back and don’t get active politically (or financially) thinking all they need do when the infringments come is shoot their rights back. Firstly, ain’t nobody getting anything back by shooting. It’ll never come out that way, and secondly, threats to do so only result in more draconian gun grabs. Fight these mofo’s in the courts, in the media and at the ballot. Support pro freedom academics like John Lott and pro 2A litigation efforts in the courts. Yeah, the other side cheats, but they can be defeated with a unified… Read more »
TERM LIMITS would have eliminated the Dinosars Like Frankenstien , Slimer, Bloomerthal and all the rest of these Slimy creatures