Missouri Republican Wants To Make It A Felony For His Fellow Lawmakers To Propose Gun Laws

[SayWut]

39. Right.

How many of those laws mandated surrendering, rendering inoperable or outright prohibited the possession of currently owned firearms (with or without compensation from the state)?

Failure to comply resulting in felony charges, followed by inevitable confiscation, seizure of previously legally owned property.


"4. Any person who, prior to the effective date of this law, was legally in possession of an assault weapon or large capacity magazine shall have ninety days from such effective date to do any of the following without being subject to prosecution:

(1) Remove the assault weapon or large capacity magazine from the state of Missouri;

(2) Render the assault weapon permanently inoperable; or

(3) Surrender the assault weapon or large capacity magazine to the appropriate law enforcement agency for destruction, subject to specific agency regulations.

5. Unlawful manufacture, import, possession, purchase, sale, or transfer of an assault weapon or a large capacity magazine is a class C felony."

"frivolous as case of grandstanding as legislative activity" you say?

The author of the ban knows full well that his bill has zero chance of making it out of committee hearings, let alone passing a floor vote.
Which leads me to conclude that he's either making some lame statement ('someone needs to do something'), pandering to a specific voting bloc, or just plain naive (perhaps all that and and more).