Tuesday - January 08, 2013

And Here We Go

With new Congress comes a new push for gun laws

Washington (CNN)—Lawmakers began a new session of Congress with the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, still fresh in their minds—inspiring a new push to pass gun laws that could prevent another tragedy.

On Day One, lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced nearly a dozen bills related to gun violence.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-New York, a longtime gun control advocate, led the fight on the Democratic side of the aisle. She’s sponsoring legislation that would require background checks for all gun sales—including at gun shows—and ban online sales of ammunition. McCarthy is also co-sponsoring a bill to ban high-capacity magazines with Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colorado. DeGette’s district includes Columbine High School, where two gunmen killed 13 people in 1999, and is next to Aurora, where a gunman killed 12 people in a mass shooting at a movie theater in July.

“These assault magazines help put the ‘mass’ in ‘mass shooting’ and anything we can do to stop their proliferation will save lives in America,” said McCarthy, whose husband was killed and her son critically wounded in a mass shooting on the Long Island Railroad in New York in 1993. “These devices are used to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time possible, and we owe it to innocent Americans everywhere to keep them out of the hands of dangerous people.”

Meanwhile, two Republican freshmen, Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, have introduced bills that would allow more guns around schools.

California Legislators Introduce Bill To Regulate Ammunition

Legislators for years have tried regulating firearms to protect people from getting shot, but on Monday, California Assemblymembers Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) and Rob Bonta (D-Alameda) unveiled a different approach, announcing a bill that would restrict the sale of bullets.

In a press conference attended by more than a dozen gun control advocates, religious leaders, educators and other activists, the legislators said their bill would help prevent murders like the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

“When we have so many safeguards in place around the purchase of guns, why is it so much easier to buy bullets?” asked Skinner. “It is easier in California to buy bullets than to buy alcohol, cigarettes or Sudafed cold medicine.”

Wow. Big turnout. More than 12 people were there in the audience.

The bill is meeting opposition. Sam Paredes, executive director of the Gun Owners of California told KQED’s Mina Kim that high-capacity magazines are not being used in very many California crimes.

“We don’t have a gun problem in California or in America,” he said. “We have a people problem that nobody wants to address. As long as everybody concentrates on gun control we will continue to have these massacres occurring.”

The bill, AB 48, would

* Require licenses for ammunition sellers
* Require ammunition purchasers to show identification
* Require ammunition sellers to report sales to the California Department of Justice
* Create a registry of ammunition purchases available to law enforcement agencies
* Require the Department of Justice to notify law enforcement of large ammunition sales. (The bill does not yet have a definition of “large ammunition sales.” The legislators said they are still working on that.)
* Ban kits that can convert ammunition-feeding devices into high-capacity magazines
* define “high capacity” as more than 10 rounds, but excludes tubular magazines on lever guns

The bill is not the first to take aim at ammunition in the wake of the Newtown killings. On Dec. 20, state Sen. Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles) introduced SB 53 requiring a permit for the purchase of ammunition.

AB 48 is a one-pager, so you can read it all in a flash right here.

Well golly. Seems to me that New Jersey already has laws on the books just like that. It’s against the law here to possess any ammunition of any kind that you don’t have a legal firearm for. Not to mention that whole “hollow point bullet” idiocy. And from what I’ve heard, NJ has upped the penalty for “high capacity” 15 round magazines to a Class 2 felony: 18 months in jail, no early release, for each one they catch you with, whether they fit any legal arms you own or not. In NY it’s 10 rounds. But hey, stun guns are illegal here too, and so are pepper sprays larger than 0.75fl oz. Which is pretty tiny.

Only in Obamaland ... somehow this smells a bit fishy ...

Member of Biden’s Gun Control Task Force Has a Son Convicted of Planning School Mass Murder

President of the National Assocation of Police Officers and Boston Police Officer Thomas Nee is a member of Vice President Joe Biden’s gun control task force, which was created by President Obama in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Nee’s son, Joseph Nee, was convicted in 2008 for planning to commit mass murder of students and teachers at Marshfield High School in Massachusetts, similar to that of Columbine in 1999. After spending nine months in prison, Nee’s conviction was upheld by the Supreme Judicial Court.

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Thomas Nee is serving as an expert on gun violence for Biden. Attorney General Eric Holder, Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department Charles Ramsey and others have also been tapped to provide their expertise to the task force.

Such an expert ... who didn’t even know his own kid was a whacko planning mass murder. But gosh, he has a badge. Philly’s Ramsey is another rabid anti-gun bigot as well. He’s one of the hands behind the anti-gun bills that Philly keeps passing that get shredded by the PA legislature nearly every year.

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The foo is hitting the shan folks. It really is. The lunatic commies are in charge.

Oh, and now shooting victim and former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her retired astronaut husband Mark Kelly are trying to climb up on Cindy Shitcan’s High Horse of Moral Authority ... wannabe the new Bradys ... funded by Bloomberg because neither of them has a job any more ... hiding behind a “common sense” front group ... with the same old pitch: overbearing legislation followed by confiscation. Believe it.

Posted by Drew458     on 01/08/2013 at 12:50 PM   
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