Assault weapons ban won't come to vote

[Hangar18]

This can't really surprise anyone. Good news to say the least. Can't wait to find some full cap mags for the 10-22.

As for the dire predictions, they make the same predictions every time a state passes a concealed weapons law, and have been right exactly 0% so far. I boldly predict that trend will continue when the scary-looking-weapons-ban expires.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5946127/

Congress won’t vote on assault weapons ban
10-year federal ban set
to expire Monday

The Associated Press
Updated: 7:52 p.m. ET Sept. 8, 2004
WASHINGTON - Congress will not vote on an assault weapons ban due to expire Monday, Republican leaders said Wednesday, rejecting a last-ditch effort by supporters to renew it.

“I think the will of the American people is consistent with letting it expire, so it will expire,” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., told reporters.

The 10-year ban, signed by President Clinton in 1994, outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons. A clause directed that the ban expire unless Congress specifically reauthorized it.

Some Democrats and several police leaders said President Bush should try to persuade Congress to renew the ban. Bush has said he would sign such a bill if Congress passed it.

“If the president asked me, it’d still be no ... because we don’t have the votes to pass an assault weapons ban and it will expire Monday and that’s that,” House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, told reporters later.

DeLay said the ban was “a feel-good piece of legislation” that does nothing to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals.

However, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said he would consider allowing the House to vote on legislation only if the Senate acted first.

Appearing at a news conference, chiefs of police from the District of Columbia, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Seattle predicted an increase in violent gun crimes if the bans does expire.

“Our streets, our homes, our citizens and our police officers will face great danger unless the federal ban on assault weapons is renewed,” said Charles H. Ramsey, the police chief in the nation’s capital.

In March, the Senate voted to add the ban to a bill that would have immunized gun manufacturers from liability suits stemming from violent gun crimes. But the Senate voted 90-8 against the final bill after the National Rifle Association urged its defeat.

NRA President Wayne LaPierre said in an interview with The Associated Press that his group is so confident that Congress won’t renew the ban that it is not spending any more money on ads this year opposing it.

He said supporters of the ban could not muster the support needed to bring it to a vote in the House because several Democrats attribute losing their majority in the House in 1994 over votes then in favor of the ban.

© 2004 The Associated Press.

 

[feclnogn]

Tomorrow I will try to find a store here in town that can get me a stripped RRA lower and a fully assembled RRA lower. Got to do my part to support the economy.

 

[snake river rufus]

it was a bad law any way

 

[Muledeer4me]

Good move ,it was a crappy law in the first place.