Bills to return a ban on assault weapons in the United States will be introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives on the first day they are in session next month, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein vowed on national television Sunday.
“We’ve tried to take my bill from ’94 to 2004 and perfect it,” the California Democrat said on the NBC “Meet The Press” program.
Feinstein authored a federal ban on assault weapons in 1994, a ban that was allowed to expire by Congress during the George W. Bush administration. On NBC today, Feinstein agreed with gun control proponent Michael Bloomberg, the New York mayor, who said he wants “weapons of war off the streets of our cities.”
On the NBC program, California’s senior senator said her lawyers have carefully crafted a constitutional bill that will “exempt over 900 specific weapons that will not ... fall under the bill.”
She said the 1994 assault rifle bill that she wrote was never challenged in court by the National Rifle Association.
“Back in ’93, when I told Joe Biden who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee that I was going to move this as an amendment on the Crime Bill, he laughed at me,” Feinstein said.
“He said, ‘you’re new here. Wait till you learn,’ ” Feinstein related.
“And we got it through the Senate, we got it through the House, the White
House came alive and ... the bill was passed.”
The NRA has declined to comment on gun issues since Friday’s slaying of 20 grade school children and seven adults in Connecticut.
Police have said the children were shot multiple times in rapid succession, but have not said if the murder weapons had been in automatic mode—illegal under current laws—or semi-automatic mode—possibly illegal under the 1994 law.
Feinstein, who just won her fourth Senate election, was propelled to the forefront of California politics when she suddenly became mayor of San Francisco when two politicians were murdered there in 1978. She has been a leading voice for gun control since then.
Feinstein’s quotes were transcribed by NBC News.
-City News Service
By the way, what lies have I allegedly said/told about you?
2:44 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012 "Two wrongs don't make a right Carol, Bush was a war monger too" . . This is not a question of which President was wrong and which is right. You stated... . . snoopy 9:33 am on Friday, December 21, 2012 "The fact Obama has murdered more people than bush including innocent children" . . So I'll ask again, what do you think had more collateral damage - Obama's drone strikes or the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan?
2:44 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012 "Bush was a war monger too, but didn't hide it nor did the main stream media hide it. Obama is the president now, and he hides behind the media and pretends to be someone he is not." . . What is he pretending to be and what is the media hiding? If we both know that there are drone strikes and there more than during the Bush administration, what is being hidden?
2:44 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012 " don't claim to be an expert but special forces should be used more often, to spare the lives of innocent men women and children." . . What makes you think that using actual forces will do any more to protect the lives of innocent men, women and children. Do you think that they are going to conduct an investigation before they kill their target? What do you think the reaction of the locals is going to be when they see American troops on their soil? And again, why put these troops in danger?
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Shane, unless you are psycho, whoever you are arguing with must have deleted his posts.
Your lies & antagonistic ways completely void any valid input you may bring to a discussion Jeff. The only coherent things you ever post are copy & pasted from articles you plagiarize & don't even credit. Other than that it's all hate, bigotry, & antagonizing. Try & be a decent human & maybe people would take you seriously instead of being a joke.
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the right wing is already screaming out loud about the pervasiveness of hollywood and the entertainment industry "corrupting" our moral fiber.. all this will do is give them even more ammunition to scream "see??..we TOLD you so!!!" better they should have shut up and worked b ehind the scenes.. bad move, folks.. doug
"Mr. LaPierre offered no support for any of the proposals made in the last week, like banning assault rifles or limiting high-capacity ammunition, and N.R.A. leaders declined to answer questions." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/us/nra-calls-for-armed-guards-at-schools.html?hp&_r=1&pagewanted=all&; It's bad enough that any three time felon can walk in off the street and buy high-magazine clips no questions asked but if they get their hands on some high capacity ammo too it'll be like crossing the streams we can't afford to take the chance and if they somehow get a hold of gutta percha grips for the slide suppressor it will be too late how many people have to die before we listen to the media?
8:45 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012 "the artists making that video is going to prove to be very counterproductive as this debate goes on.. the right wing is already screaming out loud about the pervasiveness of hollywood and the entertainment industry "corrupting" our moral fiber.. all this will do is give them even more ammunition to scream "see??..we TOLD you so!!!" better they should have shut up and worked b ehind the scenes.. bad move, folks.." . . I media star's capital is their connection to their fans. That is why they make a good "face" for an issue. Why have them work behind the scenes? I also fail to see how this gives the right wing any fire power.
Who will you send against us??? The 400 pound, 5 foot loudmouth from New Jersey or Bobby 7-11 Jindahl??? How about Jeb???? I laugh at conservatives.....it will be a long long time till you get back in....LOL!!!
Better yet Carol go and enjoy the season.
Better yet Carol go and enjoy the season.
Better yet Carol go and enjoy the season.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/27/travel/2012-traffic-fatalities/index.html Pure carnage...mostly overlooked, yet, bottom line: Caused by auto manufacturer's. Since we will be going back to rocks abd sticks, we may as well do it on foot...bicycles are unsafe too, so don't push that transportation mode, please.
So Today you get to ROFLMFAO at me and for the rest of my life I get to ROFLMFAO at you. No one really cares what you think.
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