Just hours after a Brady Center report highlighted the NRA’s repeated and false denials that its bill to gut DC’s gun laws would allow assault rifles on the streets of Washington, the gun lobby has revised the bill to prevent the carrying of assault weapons on DC’s streets.What's up with that?
I know it's tough divining truth out of Brady claims, but is there any here? Is this a give up "bear" in order to pass "keep" compromise? Heller leaves no other options? Or is this more hysteria-ginning?
Illumination on just what is going on here will be appreciated.
I suspect it's all sound and fury signifying nothing anyway...
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It's not tough to divine truth out of Brady claims, because there is none!
. . . the gun lobby has revised the bill to prevent the carrying of assault weapons on DC’s streets.
Another question is how would "the gun lobby" revise a bill that's already been submitted? I realize that advocacy groups, the NRA included, might be consulted in the writing of a bill or an amendment to it, but there still has to be at least one legislator who actually submits the bill or the amendment.
They're juts being hysterical, as usual.
The original bill already gave up the bear in section 9 "except in his dwelling house or place of business or on other land possessed by that person."
Section 4 had already redefined machine guns to match the NFA/GCA definition, so they're still lying about assault rifles.
The new amendment doesn't appear to be in THOMAS yet, but since the bill already doesn't do what the Brady Bunch claim it does, I would imagine the amendment probably just explains sections 4 and 9 again in very small words so that even the apparently illiterate folks at Brady HQ can comprehend it.
These people are incredible. How is it that they can be so afraid of their fellow man? I know people who are scared to death of guns and hate them, but also realize that guns can't turn the average person into a murderer. These gun banners really need to get some help.
I will give my next paycheck to anyone who has seen an "assault weapon" or even an ergonomically similar LOOKALIKE actually and physically "ON THE STREETS".
Haven't seen any publicly carried here, Joe, and it's legal as long as the magazine is under 30 rounds.
They SAY. But then, open handgun carry is legal also, but that won't prevent a 911 man-with-a-gun call from ruining your day.
The laws on the books are one thing, daily practice and procedures by the authorities something else again.
I wonder whether the next local disaster will bring semi-auto rifles "out of the closet."
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