After a meeting yesterday with Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Dianne Feinstein learned that her controversial assault weapons ban mess will not be part of the gun control bill package heading to the senate floor next month.
The AWB could be offered up as an amendment, but the bill was already considered a long shot, as senate democrats will be facing a competitive election cycle for 2014. Many face constituents back home who do not support such legislation.
Democrat insiders say the universal background check, supported only by Democrats, will not head to the floor either.
The AWB, might not make it as an amendment magazine restrictions on the other hand might still be in play. Stay vigilant, this fight isn’t over and likely never will.
Mr. Reid ’s decision was likely aimed at bolstering the party’s chances to pass some gun control, even if it’s not as restrictive as many on the left would like. As Hot Air noted, Mr. Reid can now play the two bills off each other and make the case that he kept out Mrs. Feinstein ’s more controversial version.
(this is taken from a quote in Koshinns thread on this matter quoting some political pundits)
We still need to be super vigilant. This is a tactic to get other crap passed.
It would have been better for us if they had let it come to a full vote on the senate floor (where it would have died a fiery death), so the voters could hold those who voted for it accountable. Now they will try and piecemeal it through in other legislation and fence sitting anti gun senators can move along with their re-election campaigns.
Reid himself said a month or two ago that he wasn’t going to tie up the Senate’s time voting on bills that had no chance to pass the House. He was talking about the AWB and mag capacity limit bills. That was code for “I’m not going to hang out to dry Dem senators in red states facing re-election fights in 2014 just to help Obama make a statement on gun control”.
The AWB and mag capacity limits aren’t likely to even get a vote on the Senate floor, much less pass the Senate, much less pass the House.
You can’t really piecemeal the AWB. It is a single chunk. You can try the AWB and Mag Limits separately, but they are both big enough to put a red mark on the chest of everyone who votes for it come the next election.
They are probably just hoping for another big shooting in the next few months, to regain any lost momentum. As an above poster said, the fight will never end.
Yep, let’s not forget the renewal of the Clinton Assault Weapon Ban was successfully renewed to Larry Craigs Industry Protection Bill weeks prior to the sunset in 2004. And that was a Republican majority Congress who did it. Where it not for the efforts of ONE MAN, Larry Craig who then killed his own bill the sunset would never have happened.
Don’t let your guard down. Last minute amendments are usually how we get screwed every time.
Yep threaten you with “murder” and then offer “just rape.” That way “rape” doesn’t seem so bad.
Sadly I think it’s gonna work. There will be universal background checks and IF a serial number is required that will be the end of “off the grid” guns for the most part.
And far too many people will celebrate the fact that they didn’t end up with a ban like NY.
Since no vote on the awb is what it looks like at the moment, we need not forget the scumbags that have said they would support it. I have my compiled list of Florida politicians that responded with a go vote for the awb. Stay vigilant.
This fight is long from over. The core problem is that the left does not see any rights guaranteed by the Constitution as inalienable. They interpret “Shall not be infringed” as “tamper as you see politically fit depending on the election and news cycle”.
It was a nice occasion to call my brother in California and say “My piece of shit Democratic senator is better than you piece of shit Democratic senator”. His reply was that I was basically comparing smells in a sewage plant. Both smell like shit, so it doesn’t matter which smells worse.
