http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/judiciary-approves-assault-weapons-ban-88866.html?hp=l8
Feinstein gave him a time out.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a hugely controversial ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips, but the measure faces nearly certain defeat on the Senate floor.The proposal, authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), bans 157 different models of assault weapons, as well as magazines containing more than 10 bullets.The vote was 10 to 8, with all Democrats supporting it and all Republicans opposed.next time you hear a republican claim their concern and desire to look out for you remember this.
The Senate now faces a floor fight in coming weeks over Democrats’ push to dramatically alter U.S. gun laws for the first time in two decades. While the Feinstein assault weapons ban is unlikely to overcome GOP opposition and get a vote — as well as concerns from red state Democrats up for reelection in 2014 — Democrats and the White House will continue their drive to enact universal background checks on all gun sales.Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, acknowledged that the assault weapons ban will have a hard time overcoming opposition.
the right points out it didn't work the first time, of course not when you have the entire right wing and NRA propping it up. but as we know it's always better the second time around.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and other top Democrats, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont, will now try to craft one package out of the Feinstein proposal and other gun-related bills. The Judiciary Committee has previously approved a gun-trafficking bill that expands federal sanctions for “straw purchasers” of guns, as well as a universal background checks proposal. The panel also approved an additional $40 million for school safety programs.Reid told POLITICO he spoke with Feinstein and said “he tried to understand” why she included a limitation of high-capacity magazines in her proposal, saying he believed they should be “two separate things.” But Reid would not say if he believed the Feinstein bill should move as part of the base guns bill on the floor, saying he needed to talk in more detail with Leahy.
why not both bills just in case, i believe our gov't would work much better if we elected regular people from all walks of America as long as there is a common sense factor around the table, hard to exercise common sense ideology when both are absent from the conversation.
