I do not think it passes. If it does, I think Clarence Thomas and Co. will strike it down so hard it’ll make their heads spin, based on the language he has been used in The Big Case. He and a couple of other justices have already said they amount to common use.
Not only does the 17th amendment need repealed, we need to change the electoral college. Instead of the candidate that wins the most votes in a state, wins the ec; we need to have it be the candidate that wins the most counties win the state ec votes. It would be a more true representation of the state. In ca for instance mission modoc county (least populated in the state) could cancel out LA’s vote. The founders wanted rural America to control the country, not urban centers.
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I hope you’re correct.
I don’t think it will pass, but it’s possible I could be wrong… Are hi-cap 9mm and other caliber pistols like the Glock included in this bill ?
IMHO, the sad reality is mass shooting won’t stop, and at some point one of them will be the straw that broke the camels back, with enough of those in the House and Senate knuckling under to the public outcry. I hope I am wrong about that. Also didn’t Biden say he wants to ban hi-cap pistols also ? If they have their way NFA items and sniper rifles won’t be safe either. Over time they want all guns gone. How in the hell could anybody especially gun owners vote for today’s F’ed up extreme Democrat Communist Party.
I can see things like a Steyr AUG or B&T APC being banned. But the AR15 is in common use. It would have to be exempt.
The one I really want to see is that the 30rnd mag is also a ‘common use’ gun part.
Or no more WTA, make it one race for each CD’s electors then two at-large electors awarded to whoever takes the most CD’s in that state.
Even the AP style manual is calling ARs (and AR-style rifles) ‘common use’ and getting away from ‘assault weapon’ terms. Honestly, if it passes, it ain’t sticking.
But will they try to name individual brand names. For instance, a Larue OBR isn’t as common as a Bushmaster XM15 or a S&W M&P15. Some states already have lists of banned guns by specific name. Doing it this way, they could say only the large name brands are in “common use,” ban the others, then incentivize those large companies to remove their weapons from public sale.
I think the fair argument is that the AR15 ‘pattern’ rifle is in common is e regardless of manufacture. I could see something like a requirement of cross compatible parts like barrel, receivers, BCG all be cross compatible to be “ar15 pattern”
Personally, I’d also add a definition of “semiauto versions of any military-issued full-auto are specifically protected as Common Militia Use,” if not go all the way to “anything issued to a basic 11B or 0311 infantry rifleman.”
I believe they started selling the AR15 to the public around 1965 or 57 years ago. I am 70 and don’t really recall that there were many mass shooting before Columbine.
Seems like their are many more miserable people F’ed up in the head because of mental illness, drugs, etc. that want to go out in their blaze of glory. IMHO, if you haven’t already done so, get all the firearms, hi-cap mags and ammo that you can comfortably afford, and don’t ever, ever register your firearms or turn them in. The only thing worse than a Republican is a Democrat, and the only thing worse than a Democrat is a RINO Republican. IMHO, if this Country ever goes down, it will because of easily deceived and manipulated, brain dead suckers and fools who believed the propaganda of the fake news media and the extreme Democrat Communist Party. Wake up America !! MAGA !!!
And then you have the massive explosion of psychotropic drug use in tandem with the infantilization of the populace… things that send my generation running home crying to mommy sucking their thumbs were just “eff it, drive on, this shit happens and it’s part of life” to our grandparents’ generation. And the generations after Gen-X are even worse on the snowflakery… psychotropics and public schools as indoctrination centers, twin IV’s of poison set to max flow rates.
Don’t even try to give them that idea. Magazine fed, semi-auto firearms. Handguns and rifle form and caliber. The particulars are not important.
No, the issue is not the brand and model; it’s the style of weapon. From an originalist perspective, the Founding Fathers didn’t care if you had something common like a Brown Bess or Springfield 1795 musket, or some musket you got from a local gunsmith. It was a common use style of weapon that was suitable for all lawful purposes.
It’s not that the AR-15, specifically, is common use. It’s that semi-automatic rifles as a whole are in common use, whether they’re a widespread design like an AR or AK, or whether they’re something more obscure like a AUG or SG550. It doesn’t matter.
They are going after scary guns, your AR15 is scary to them. Your murder capacity magazines are scary to them.
Relying on common usage to save you isn’t going to save you.
LOL. They started calling Colt rifles Colt Sporters, that didn’t prevent anyone from passing laws saying they couldn’t have flash hiders, bayos or sliding stocks. Obviously some of you don’t remember rifles with fixed “M4 style” buttstocks and bull barrels.
Interesting they were only able to muster 48 votes for the ATF director. They got exactly two Republican votes: a blue state Republican legacy Senator and a guy who was retiring. It was enough, but sure doesn’t sound like they have a deep reserve of votes for anything serious.
Any law if passed will be largely ignored and eventually repealed, one way or another. Hope I’m not around to see it. After Uvalde the only-cops-should-have-them argument is weakened. Obviously we all think it was settled in 1791 but regular non-gun people are beginning to see the light I hope.
I agree with you, but for my associates that have different ideas on guns I’ve heard Uvalde spun the opposite way. The AR is “so scary” even cops won’t face up to one. Obviously a stupid argument, and kind of slap in the face of anyone who ever served in the military and faced off against AKs and PKMs, but I’ve seen it a lot.
In regards to the Republican Party being a Bastion of Democracy regarding firearms laws, I find our members faith
commendable but extremely naive .