Ceasing on the “opportunity to do things [that he] could not do before”… On Sunday, President Obama declared he would use the “full weight” of his office to support the measure.
We, as a nation, have endured more than 40 years of the modern gun control experiment, and to what end?Chicago and D.C., the Brady Campaign’s epitomes of progressive gun control are awash in gun violence, and Chicago alone has recently surpassed 500 murders in 2012, a new Windy City record. Albert Einstein once said that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.” Not surprisingly, the gun control lobby’s response is, “obviously, we need MORE gun control.” The questions are, at what point does “more” become “too much” and are we willing to simply wait until it’s too late to protect the interests that are personally important to each of us? At what point will you, personally, say “enough”?
Sen. Feinstein’s bill calls for banning any sale of so-called “assault weapons”; similar to the 1994 ban, except that this proposal is much more far reaching and encompasses a far greater range of firearms. Her proposal includes prohibitions on firearms that have but a single “undesirable” characteristic; any one of which will classify your firearm as an“assault weapon”. It proposes that any of the newly classified “assault weapons” be registered as NFA items and require the purchase of a tax stamp. What “single characteristics”, you ask? A pistol grip, a forward grip, a thumb-hole stock, an adjustable length stock or any semiautomatic rifle having an overall length of less than 30 inches!
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