Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Thursday introduced a ban on more than 200 “assault weapons” after the House passed two gun-control measures pertaining to background checks.
Her bill (pdf), called the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2021,” is co-sponsored by 34 Senate Democrats and would ban ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds—similar to the bans on magazines in New York state and California.
According to the legislation, which was also introduced in the House by Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), the ban would encompass more than 205 rifles. Feinstein’s bill would allow current owners of the guns to retain possession of them. If that gun is transferred, a person has to undergo an FBI background check before getting the firearm.
The bill also bans any weapon that has the capacity to use a magazine that isn’t a fixed ammunition magazine and has one or more characteristics such as a pistol grip, forward grip, a threaded barrel, a folding or telescoping stock, or a barrel shroud.
The bill “requires that grandfathered assault weapons are stored using a secure gun storage or safety device like a trigger lock” and prohibits the transfer of high-capacity ammunition magazines while banning “bump-fire stocks and other devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at fully automatic rates,” according to a news release from Feinstein’s office. Bump-fire stocks were made illegal in March 2019.
“It’s been 17 years since the original Assault Weapons Ban expired, and the plague of gun violence continues to grow in this country. To be clear, this bill saves lives. When it was in place from 1994-2004, gun massacres declined by 37 percent compared with the decade before. After the ban expired, the number of massacres rose by 183 percent,” Feinstein said in a statement Thursday.
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Feinstein CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL!!!! She's such a huge damn hypocrite!!!!!!
Why spend so much effort trying to control those that are law abiding? Why not go after the criminals? We never get an answer to this question.
10 round mags only!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FACIAL SHOTS "ONLY"!!!!
To be clear, this bill will not saves lives. Innocent gun owners do not go on mass killings, criminals do. The only mass killing a innocent gun owner does is a limit of waterfowl, quail, phesant, turkey, mounring doves and other game birds, rabbits and squirrels.
Will Bows and Arrows or Crossbows be next because they do not go Bang, they are silent. Ms. Feinstein, old fossils, like yourself need to be retired and sitting on a beach sipping on a Mai Tai, quite frankly.
No, she needs to be hanging from a gallows then her carcass fed to sharks!!!!!!!!!!
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D. Frankenstine does not know what she is talking about; their is no such thing as an "assault weapon", never has been, never will be. Everyone can play her stupid game such as "assault": wad of paper, spit wad, stare, spork from Taco Bell, rock, pencil, tantrum, burnt burger, back pack, you get the idea, anything can be classified as an assualt something. D. Frankenstine needs to look at herself in a mirror, she will see how she assaults every living person on Planet Earth.
all of the Democrats who are in office they are all scumbags.
Why are you so kind I know what they really are and scumbag is not ever half way there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We the people should do something to stop this constant defense of ourselves, their words turn to laws
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