Lautenberg Speaks Out on Gun Laws, Proposes New Bill - banning high capacity magazines

[jpak]

http://berkeleyheights.patch.com/articles/lautenberg-speaks-out-on-gun-laws-proposes-new-bill

New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg (D) paid a special visit to the Plainfield city hall annex on the morning of Wednesday, February 23 to discuss new legislation that would re-instate a federal ban on large-capacity gun magazines.

The new bill, which is an effort to significantly decrease the chances for gun violence nationwide, comes partially in response to the January 8 shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D). Congresswoman Giffords is still recovering from a gunshot to the head by Jared Lee Loughner, which she received in an attack that left eighteen people wounded and six dead, including a nine-year-old girl, at a “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson, Arizona.

“The fact that Congresswoman Giffords is striving so courageously to regain her health is a constant reminder (of the need for strict gun laws)," said Lautenberg.

The original federal ban on large-capacity gun magazines lapsed in 2004, leaving it to individual states to devise their own gun laws for the general public. If the senator’s new bill becomes law, the new federal ban will resonate in New Jersey despite the fact that large-capacity gun magazines have already been made illegal on a state level. People can still purchase these magazines in other states with more lenient gun laws and bring them across state borders.

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[RSillsbee]

1. OK I'll go first

You do recall what happened the last time they tried this shit right?

[AtheistCrusader]

12. It'll be different this time. We'll do it better.

And we'll have another decade of fucking republicans in the white house, house, and senate, and a republican majority in the supreme court for the next 25 freakin years.

*Punches self in groin*

[RSillsbee]

15. I, Sarah Heath Palin. Do solemly swear

To give Atheist Crusader a heart attack right here in the gungeon on DU

Yup

[AtheistCrusader]

16. I didn't know demons had middle names.

Learn something new every day.

[RSillsbee]

19. I think Heath was her maiden name

Of course I often wonder exactly who Jack's Bison is named after http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hXlPY9OS1k

[Remmah2]

2. How much gun crime is caused by the ATF? Project Gunrunner?

Yup

[Bold Lib]

3. Second verse, same as the first.

yup

[Glassunion]

4. No thanks... Sen. Lautenberg is not interested in any of my civil rights.

He enjoys writing bills that strip the individual of their rights to due process(S. 34-112th, 2820-111th) and he is also a fan of government black-lists(S. 35,34-112th, 2820-111th).

No thanks.

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[beevul]

6. I wish I could rec your post, well said.

:toast:

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[Kolesar]

8. Loughner would have committed this act with an antique black powder 6 shot revolver

"... if that had been his only option!"

Glue logic:
It is a term that means circuits built from flip-flops, ands and ors, but in this case it means something else. A product by Testors

[mediator]

9. Fine, I'll support a ban on 6 shot black powder revolvers.

Will that satisfy you?

[Kolesar]

10. who are you? eom

[mediator]

14. mediator. Can't you read?

:eyes:

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[benEzra]

11. Except (1) he wants to ban standard factory magazines, not just high-capacity mags, and

(2) he doesn't want to reinstate the 1994 non-ban, he wants to go waaaaaaay beyond it.

The overwhelming majority of states have considered and rejected such bans, not that it matters to Lautenberg et al.

[spin]

13. This is why our government can't solve the job situation ...

Politicians are so divorced from reality or so interested in playing idiotic political games that they honestly believe that passing "feel good" laws such as a ban on high capacity magazines will make a real difference in "significantly decrease the chances for gun violence nationwide".

All he will accomplish is to cause every magazine with a capacity of more than 10 rounds to fly off the shelves at gun stores, gun shows and internet suppliers all over our nation. There's no chance that he could ever get a law passed that would require confiscation of these magazines and even if he did accomplish this, many gun owners would simply refuse to turn their magazines in.

Since any person with a little practice can swap magazines quickly and of course carry more than one firearm, a massacre can be accomplished with 10 round magazines.

[Ken_Fish]

18. Boy I bet if this is passed Camden and Irvington would go from shithole dumps

to crime free functional communities overnight. I mean, NJ is such a shining example of functional laws...

Will never leave committee anyway.

[Tejas]

20. Lautenberg uses the Giffords canard (oh my, what a surprise)