House Democrats introduce bill prohibiting sale of semi-automatic weapons

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House Democrats introduce bill prohibiting sale of semi-automatic weapons
House Democrats have introduced a bill banning semi-automatic firearms in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., announced Monday he is introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018. More than 150 Democrats have signed on in support of the legislation, Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., said.

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The bill prohibits the sale, transfer, production, and importation of semi-automatic rifles and pistols that can hold a detachable magazine, as well as semi-automatic rifles with a magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds. Additionally, the legislation bans the sale, transfer, production, and importation of semi-automatic shotguns with features such as a pistol grip or detachable stock, and ammunition feeding devices that can hold more than 10 rounds.

Cicilline's legislation names 205 specific firearms that are prohibited, including the AK-47 and AR-15.

Text of bill is posted on Scribd here:
Assault Weapons Ban of 2018 | Assault Weapon | Magazine (Firearms)
 
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Good. Finally something honest from the dems. They are coming for the guns. Here's the bill that does so. No more "nobody is coming for your guns, we just want reasonable blah blah".
The fact they're going all in on it means someone had ought to be paying close attention to the ballot boxes in November.
 
The bill doesn't affect the 10 Million semis presently in circulation.

They call it the Ban of 2018, but a list of exempt weapons, is the "2017 list".

Morons
 
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Is it a true ban or "just" a reincarnation of the 1994/MA AWB? I'm presuming it's a complete ban, subject to potential grandfathering of existing AWs.
 
I'm guessing that democrats are hoping and praying that this is the issue that delivers victories? If not, then it's going to blow up in their faces. Interesting that they included some S&W weapons. I wonder if S&W will get off their asses and do something?
 
Is it a true ban or "just" a reincarnation of the 1994/MA AWB? I'm presuming it's a complete ban, subject to potential grandfathering of existing AWs.

True ban,

(v)(1) It shall be unlawful for a person to import,
sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or affecting
interstate or foreign commerce, a semiautomatic assault
weapon.
 
Is it a true ban or "just" a reincarnation of the 1994/MA AWB? I'm presuming it's a complete ban, subject to potential grandfathering of existing AWs.

I tried to scan the bill in the OP. Looks like an AWB with a 1-feature test. Hard to tell. So might not be a true "semi-automatic weapon ban".


From the bill:
The term ‘semiautomatic assault weapon’ means any of the following, regardless of country of manufacture or caliber of ammunition accepted:

‘‘(A) A semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any 1 of the following:
‘‘(i) A pistol grip.
‘‘(ii) A forward grip.
‘‘(iii) A folding, telescoping, or detachablestock.
‘‘(iv) A grenade launcher or rocket launcher.
‘‘(v) A barrel shroud.
‘‘(vi) A threaded barrel.

‘‘(B) A semiautomatic rifle that has a fixed
magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10
rounds, except for an attached tubular device de-
signed to accept, and capable of operating only with,
.22 caliber rimfire ammunition.

‘‘(C) Any part, combination of parts, compo
nent, device, attachment, or accessory that is de-
signed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of
a semiautomatic rifle but not convert the semiauto-
matic rifle into a machinegun.


... continues on with Pistols...
 
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I tried to scan the bill in the OP. Looks like an AWB with a 1-feature test. Hard to tell. So might not be a true "semi-automatic weapon ban".


From the bill:
The term ‘semiautomatic assault weapon’ means any of the following, regardless of country of manufacture or caliber of ammunition accepted:

‘‘(A) A semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any 1 of the following:
‘‘(i) A pistol grip.
‘‘(ii) A forward grip.
‘‘(iii) A folding, telescoping, or detachablestock.
‘‘(iv) A grenade launcher or rocket launcher.
‘‘(v) A barrel shroud.
‘‘(vi) A threaded barrel.

Also this, say goodbye to your lowers.
‘‘(L) Any combination of parts from which a
firearm described in subparagraphs (A) through (K)
can be assembled.
‘‘(M) The frame or receiver of a rifle or shot-
gun described in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (F),
(G), (H), (J), or (K).
 
Is it a true ban or "just" a reincarnation of the 1994/MA AWB? I'm presuming it's a complete ban, subject to potential grandfathering of existing AWs.

No, see below.

I tried to scan the bill in the OP. Looks like an AWB with a 1-feature test. Hard to tell. So might not be a true "semi-automatic weapon ban".

I spotted that immediately. Mag and 1 feature adds a ton more guns to the banned list.
 
The, "the capacity to accept" language makes even the 1 feature test dubious as someone like Healey could argue that any receiver capable of being dropped into a different stock which may accommodate features has "the capacity to accept" a detachable mag plus the verboten fruit.
 
Of course it was little crybaby Cicilline who introduced it. If this guy gets re-elected when it comes around again, it would be a very bad thing for the State of Corruption
 
Midterms are gonna be a bloodbath!!!

My political spidey sense has been tingling that the left is gonna retake the US house and NH house based on what I've seen thus far regarding special elections.

But going "all in" on gun control (which they are trying to re-brand as "gun safety") will cost them many votes. I for one hope they go all in so that R's, as savage as they are keep the house, senate, and statehouse/gov.

Read below, the youth vote is not locked down by the dems. If they go after guns big time, they will peel voters away from them in big numbers. In states like NH where the social issues battles have been "won" by the left, millennials don't have as many reasons to vote D, especially if the D's go all in on guns.


Gun politics is where the easy caricature of America's radicalized youth marching toward socialism ends. It remains one of the few arenas in which a younger generation's views are not emphatically moving leftward in any obvious way. And for those who would expect or hope otherwise, the data can disappoint.

Respondents aged 18-29 are the least likely in the country to support a renewed ban on assault weapons, at 49 percent...

Pew's data suggest that those falling in the youngest age range have dropped the furthest in support for "gun control" since 2000 (when the alternative is presented as "gun rights")....

According to Gallup...in 2004, the notion that concealed guns made for safer spaces polled at 25 percent; 11 years later, it registered at 55 percent nationally. The greatest support came from those ages 18-29, at 66 percent, a full 10 points greater than the next highest scoring demographic...

At the same, millennials lead the demographic pack in calling for broader restrictions on "mentally ill" people being allowed to own and carry guns, and they have no positive feelings for the National Rifle Association (NRA). That latter point should suprise no one. Whatever else you can say about it, the NRA is an old-man's outfit that is virtually indistinguishable from the Republican Party, which pulls just 27 percent of millennials in terms of voter identification.

The Reason poll found similar rhetorical misunderstandings in other areas too. Millennials are widely dismissed as a "coddled" and "entitled" generation (ironically, many critics of millennials are baby boomers, who were attacked in exactly the same terms by "the Greatest Generation" that survived the Depression and fought World War II). Consider this:

While large numbers of millennials care about government spending and the national debt—78 percent agree that both are a major problem—such values do not define their politics. Indeed, over two-thirds of millennials who describe themselves as liberal do so because of social and cultural issues, not economic ones. It's about gay marriage and pot legalization, not farm subsidies and food stamps. This is huge and demands attention....

[Reason asked] millennials if they would rather have a government that provided more services or fewer services: Fifty-four percent chose bigger government, with just 44 percent calling for a smaller government offering less services.

But when the same question is asked in the context of paying higher taxes for more government services, the results flip. Asked if they would prefer a "larger government with more services" that would require high taxes, just 41 percent of millennials want the larger government, with 57 percent preferring a smaller government and low taxes. This preference generally extends across income and ethnic groups; it's a generational attribute.

Younger Americans, then, are speaking a different language than those of us in older generations. Everyone only adds to the confusion to the extent we don't suss out the specific meanings of words and terms that all sides take for granted. (To his credit and the reader's benefit, Politico's Wofford talks to dozens of younger Americans and others to get beyond simplistic categories.) And it's not simply on gun rights that millennials are breaking the hearts of old folks.

So why might millennials (more precisely, younger Americans) break with progressive dogma when it comes to gun rights? Attempts to explain generational attributes are rife with overreach, but if there are characteristics that define younger Americans, they inlcude insistence on their autonomy and competence (both of which they often overestimate; such is the folly of youth). That would help account for belief in concealed carry. There is also a strong sentiment of "wokeness," of empathy toward the difficult experiences of others, and a generalized acceptance and embrace of mood-altering drugs from Adderall to SSRIs to Ecstasy, pot, and LSD. That, plus a regular parade of deranged gunmen (such as Nikolaus Cruz) that might explain support for restricting gun rights for emotionally unstable people. Millennials are nothing if not in touch with their emotions.



'Gun Politics Is Where the Easy Caricature of America’s Radicalized Youth Marching Toward Socialism Ends'
 
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