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| Feinstein pushes for gun ban based on 45 year old law. |
| 2014-03-23 |
| [Daily Caller] California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is circulating a letter on Capitol Hill calling once again for a ban on semi-automatic rifles and asking for President Barack Obama to keep his State of the Union promise to make 2014 a "year of action." Citing the Gun Control Act of 1968, Feinstein states, "In recent years... importers of firearms have taken advantage of ATF's interpretation of the 'sporting purposes' test to evade the import ban." The phrase contained in The Gun Control Act of 1968 Feinstein is referencing prohibits the importation of firearms that are not "generally recognized as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes." She claims that in recent years firearms importers have taken advantage of ATF's interpretation of "sporting purposes" to circumvent the ban. Penance for the evil comments she recently made about the Klingon monitoring of politician's phone calls and e-mails. Glad to see she got the memo and is now back on the team. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Feinstein pushes for gun ban FIFY. DiFi has been a traitor to her oath since she took it. BTW Di, Article V shows how you legally amend the constitution. There's a reason for such a high requirement to alter it. It's been done a good number times even though its rather steep. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-03-23 09:28 |
| #1 the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The Constitution of the United States of America The Founding generation mistrusted standing armies. Many Americans believed, on the basis of English history and their colonial experience, that central governments are prone to use armies to oppress the people. Anti-Federalists argued that federal control over the militia would take away from the states their principal means of defense against federal oppression and usurpation, and that European history demonstrated how serious the danger was. James Madison, for one, responded that such fears of federal oppression were overblown, in part because the new federal government was structured differently from European governments. But he also pointed out a decisive difference between America and Europe: the American people were armed and would therefore be almost impossible to subdue through military force, even if one assumed that the federal government would try to use an army to do so. (Heritage.org) |
| Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-03-23 00:32 |