The Senate legislation, she calls the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2021,” is co-sponsored by 34 Senate Democrats. It would also ban ammunition magazines holding more than ten rounds.
Feinstein was a driving force behind the 1994 federal assault weapons ban.
She has been quoted saying, during that time “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, ‘Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in,’ I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren’t here.”
Democratic Senator, Dianne Feinstein, and Democratic Congressman, David Cicilline, are pushing through a bill banning several types of what they call “assault weapons” it would also ban ammo magazines holding more than 10 rounds.
This comes after house democrats passed two sweeping gun control bills (HR 127 and HR 8) requiring background checks on all commercial gun sales and a 10-day review for gun purchases.
This is nothing more than a backdoor way to chip at the second amendment and they’ve been doing this for years. A lot of these legislations are new to a lot of people but they’ve been trying to pass them for some time.
Now that they have control of the house and in some to a lot of degree control of the senate, they feel this is the right time to now try to push these pieces of legislation and get them through because Biden’s in office and they’re feeling extremely confident in that regard.
They’re taking advantage like they normally do; especially when there’s a tragedy.
Presently, they’re taking advantage of the power that they have in congress to try to push this legislation through.
it’s nothing more than finding new ways to undermine our rights under the second amendment, one law at a time.
I am largely worried these will become law; HR 8, for instance, was recently voted on and passed.
You had some republicans who actually voted in favor of it and the only thing that we have as far as the stock gap to prevent these things from passing in the senate is the filibuster rule.
Then you also have the democrats talking about getting rid of the filibuster rule as well. Once that happens there’s really nothing that we can do to stop them from passing the pieces of legislation that they try to pass it undermines the second amendment.
At that point, we’d have only the supreme court to rely on.
I’m not worried about it being a slippery slope because it’s very purposeful like their whole intent and purpose is to inevitably erode the second amendment out of existence.
While that sounds extreme, it’s essentially what they’re trying to do. None of the legislation that they’ve tried to pass currently would have stopped any of the major mass shootings that we’ve had recently nor will it put a dent in any of the gun violence that we currently have now because those are largely SOCIOECONOMIC issues.
So these legislations are literally designed to chip away and they’re trying to not only create the slippery slope but to make slippery slope as fast as possible; especially considering that they’re in power.
People just hear the catchphrases “assault weapon ban” or “background checks needed” and they think that’s okay. But the issue is larger.
What they don’t tell you, for instance about the background check aspect of it, we currently have background checks if you buy a gun from a dealer you’re required to have a background check.
However, that particular law (when it was put in place) did not deal with the private exchange of firearms and that was ON PURPOSE.
They talk about it as if it’s a loophole; it wasn’t a loophole, it’s on purpose.
They understood at that time that that was crossing the line with respect to our rights under the second amendment
What that would require then is if I wanted to give a gun to a friend of mine or sell a gun to my neighbor of sorts he would have to get a background check.
The only problem with that is there’s no way to enforce that type of background check unless you had a database with every single gun that was sold.
As a result of that, they want to pass this law so that they can say later on down the line “it didn’t really work because we don’t have a national database”
When they realize this did nothing to stop the crime or gun violence, they’ll say “you know what maybe we just need to collect them” and confiscate the guns.
Next thing you know, we have a national database of all the information and that’s that slippery slope that I think some people are most concerned about.
