Radical gun control fails as Chicago records 500th homicide in 2012.
Category: Political
Summary of 2013 Senate legislation
Following is a summary of the 2013 legislation:
- Bans the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacturing of:
- 120 specifically-named firearms;
- Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one or more military characteristics; and
- Semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.
- Strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and various state bans by:
- Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test;
- Eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test; and
- Banning firearms with “thumbhole stocks” and “bullet buttons” to address attempts to “work around” prior bans.
- Bans large-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of accepting more than 10 rounds.
- Protects legitimate hunters and the rights of existing gun owners by:
- Grandfathering weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment;
- Exempting over 900 specifically-named weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes; and
- Exempting antique, manually-operated, and permanently disabled weapons.
- Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:
- Background check of owner and any transferee;
- Type and serial number of the firearm;
- Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;
- Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and
- Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration.
Falcon:
I see where Hillary is still hiding out so as not to appear and explain why the administration failed to protect the ambassador and three others killed during the terrorist attack on the embassy in Libya.
It’s also been made public but not by the Obama run newspapers or TV news that the four employees whose dereliction of duty for not adequately protecting the embassy in Benghazi have not been fired but just moved around state to another location in order to continue to draw their salary and benefits although they are incompetent and not accountable by government standards for their mistakes as they would be in the private sector.
There just isn’t any shame in this administration or ethics when it comes to honesty.
JL
Falcon:
Why in hell would Time magazine name Obama man of the year? I can’t think of one thing he’s done to warrant such an award, if that’s what it is if not met to be a joke.
This Obama has done nothing to heal the problems our country faces other than making most of them worse. He’s failed to produce a budget since being in office plus he’s not done much of anything about the recession and what he has done has all failed, with the exception of putting our grandchildren further in debt to the Chinese. Then when his worthless healthcare cranks up we’ll be so bad off nothing will save us unless he resigns.
We have a government that can’t manage the post office, Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security along with many other so called programs and now they think they can manage the healthcare industry. Government is our worst enemy with Obama at the helm thanks to a lying press along with the Obama biased TV news and the votes of people that have no value added input to our country through only taking value.
Hang on folks the worst is yet to happen and be assured it will with Obama at the helm. By the way one of his cost saving plans is to reduce the COLA (which is already little to nothing) for those on Social Security but of course he didn’t mention it during his campaign. Sooner or later all the lies will rise to the surface and people will begin to understand how they were duped again into voting for him.
LP
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Killers aren’t stopped by these policies
“After a shooting spree,” author William Burroughs once said, “they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.”
There are a lot of problems with this approach, but one of the most significant is this one: It doesn’t work. One of the interesting characteristics of mass shootings is that they generally occur in places where firearms are banned: malls, schools, etc. That was the finding of a famous 1999 study by John Lott of the University of Maryland and William Landes of the University of Chicago, and it appears to have been borne out by experience since then as well.