He is not proposing "bans on all semi-automatic guns. We find no instance of Obama calling for such a ban at any time during his presidential campaign, much less promising to bring one about during his first year as president. A decade ago, while running for a seat in the Illinois Legislature in , Obama responded to an Illinois State Legislative Election National Political Awareness Test and indicated that he would support action to "ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
To the contrary, he has said repeatedly that he has no intention of calling for a broad ban on guns. For example, he said at a campaign rally in Lebanon, Va.
Obama, Sept. I believe in the Second Amendment. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. But I am not going to take your guns away. Wall Street Journal, Sept. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room. So he tried again. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there.
Assault Weapons Ban: Obama does support permanent reinstatement of the so-called " assault weapons ban. Fully automatic assault rifles remain illegal to own in most cases under legislation dating back to the s. Tim Huelskamp, R-Mich. Added Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa: "This is the latest attempt by the President to legislate through emotion, but doing so does not lead to quality legislation.
Reducing violence across our nation is a worthy goal, but it is imperative that the Constitutional rights of our citizens are not forgotten in the process. Over the past month, Boehner has brought to the floor two bills that did not have the support of most Republicans - the "fiscal cliff" bill and the Sandy aid bill - and he presumably has little appetite for another bitter fight that would again put him on the opposite side of the majority of his caucus.
As they boarded buses for a retreat on Wednesday, CBS News asked Republican House members about the prospects for passage of the president's proposal. Their response is not likely to encourage gun control advocates. Dennis Ross, R-Fla. Tom Marino, R-Pa. Dave Reichert, R-Wash. Reichert, a former Seattle police department sheriff, added, "the assault weapons ban, the magazine limitations does not solve the problem of gun crime.
A poll out Wednesday showed that six in 10 Americans support tougher gun laws. But conservative lawmakers in the House are far less concerned with national polls than they are with the views in their district, where straying from the National Rifle Association's steadfast opposition to new gun control laws could anger pro-gun voters and invite a serious primary challenge.
The NRA "scores" votes and assigns lawmakers grades on their performance on gun issues, grades that many lawmakers believe have a not-insignificant impact on their reelection chances.
That perception goes a long way toward explaining why Congress has not passed any sort of gun control legislation since Contrary to what Collins et al.
Hence the rifle used in the Newtown massacre was not an assault weapon when the crime was committed but became one after Connecticut legislators approved a new, broader definition of the term. Similarly, the rifles used by the perpetrators of the San Bernardino attack are not assault weapons unless and until the California legislature decides to call them that.
The Times , which says "certain kinds of weapons…must be outlawed for civilian ownership"—by which it means not only that future sales should be banned but that current owners should be forced to "give them up"—is confident "it is possible to define those guns in a clear and effective way. In a essay titled "The Assault Weapon Myth," ProPublica reporter Lois Becket noted that these demonized guns are a "politically defined category" based on scary looks rather than criminal significance.
Little handguns do. I guess they also missed the paper's own coverage of this issue, which has intermittently explained how arbitrary the definition of "assault weapon" is and noted that ARstyle rifles like those used by the San Bernardino murderers are among the most popular guns in the United States.
At this point—27 years after the Violence Policy Center's Josh Sugarmann recommended targeting "assault weapons" based on their "menacing looks," taking advantage of "the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons"—there is no excuse for continuing to parrot myths about the special murder-facilitating features of these firearms.
Either Obama, Clinton, Collins, and her colleagues at the Times do not know what they are talking about or they are deliberately misleading the public. Jacob Sullum Robby Soave Brian Doherty Scott Shackford Joe Lancaster
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