Diane Fienstien is planning on reintroducing the Assault Weapons Ban that Congress (not Bush) let lapse in 2004.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein renewed one of Washington’s long-
running and most bitterly fought battles Friday, saying she will introduce
legislation seeking to reinstate the federal assault weapons ban that expired
in September after 10 years.Gun control has been a signature issue for Feinstein since she arrived in
the Senate in 1993. But the odds she faces to pass the weapons ban in the
current Congress are probably steeper than they were in 1993, when the Senate
narrowly approved the ban, or last March, when it passed 52-47 before dying in
the body.
This is the same ban that Kerry was too chickenshit to propose that it be extended. Or maybe he just couldn’t find the Senate floor. And, if Fienstien would look at the relevent laws already fully in effect on assault weapons, she would see that the 1994 ban really had little in the way of teeth. Those weapons were already banned because they were automatic back in the late 1930’s. Furthermore, criminals do not generally buy assault weapons legally.
Don’t misunderstand me: though I fully support the Right to own guns, there is little to no need to own certain guns. I would accept a new law that wasn’t self serving political BS. Let me have my butterfly knives, though. SInce they are illegal. The 2nd Amendment does say "arms," does it not?
