Dems don't have votes for Weapons Ban

[petegz28]

Thankfully there are some smart Democrats in office...

The new legislation prohibits the sale or transfer of 158 of the most commonly owned military-style assault weapons. It exempts all assault weapons legally possessed prior to passage of the law and excludes more than 2,200 hunting and sporting rifles.

Baucus, in a Jan. 16 statement, said that “before passing new laws, we need a thoughtful debate that respects responsible, law-abiding gun owners in Montana instead of a one-size-fits-all directive from Washington.”

“The answer isn’t simply in limiting guns,” said Andrea Helling, a spokeswoman for Tester. The senator also told the Missoulian newspaper that an assault weapons ban wouldn’t have stopped the shootings in Newtown.

Begich said he was “not interested” in a ban, during a Jan. 10 conference call with reporters.

“I don’t believe that we need to pile on new laws and suddenly that solves all the problems,” he said. Manchin told CNN on Jan. 13 that the debate can’t be “about guns and guns only and a “stand-alone ban” will “not go anywhere.”

Two freshmen also expressed skepticism about an assault weapons ban.

“There isn’t any amount of gun regulation or gun executive orders that will solve the problem of identifying people who could potentially do this and making sure they get the help and their families get the help so they don’t do this,” Heitkamp told North Dakota’s KXMB-TV and KXMC-TV Jan. 15.

Scott Ogden, a spokesman for King, said the senator “remains skeptical” about an assault weapons ban, though he was waiting for more details. And Collins is concerned that the proposed legislation is “far broader in the kinds of rifles that would be banned than was the case in the law in effect between 1994 and 2004,” said her spokesman, Kevin Kelley.

Further dimming prospects for the assault weapon ban, Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, both Democrats, voted against extending a previous ban in 2004. Neither has made any public statements since Newtown indicating that they will change their positions.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...ss-senate.html

[notorious]

Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN

This is a hold up: Rahm Emanuel takes gun battle to banks

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is taking his gun control push to private banks and asking major lenders in Chicago to stop doing business with firearms manufacturers.

In a letter to TD Bank and Bank of America on Thursday, Mr. Emanuel asked the CEOs to force gun manufacturers they do business with to “find common ground with the vast majority of Americans who support a military weapons and ammunition ban.”

TD Bank provides $60 million in credit to Smith & Wesson; Bank of America provides a $25 million line to Sturm, Ruger & Co.

Mr. Emanuel can’t force the banks to comply, and so far, CEOs haven’t responded, the Boston Globe reports.

But the Chicago pol did just convince city officials to divest $5 billion in pension fund investments from companies that manufacture guns.

And that effort is reverberating among states. New York and California have both halted pension investments in companies that do business with the gun industry, according to various media reports.

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You have got to be kidding.

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Originally Posted by notorious

You have got to be kidding.

Rahmbozo: never let a good crisis go to waste is unfortunately not kidding, a major league asshat.

[Direckshun]

A plurality of Texans would actually be fine with the ASB.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/m...rnyn.html#more

Heh.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by A Salt Weapon

Be careful. We said the same thing about obamacare and we all know how that turned out.
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Well that's considerably different. A weapons ban would be taking away things that are currently legal. Obamacare is adding something that many people don't want. Taking existing legal possessions away is infinitely harder to implement.

[RNR]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

A plurality of Texans would actually be fine with the ASB.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/m...rnyn.html#more

Heh.

Maybe they are hoping to get rid of some of the guns this administration handed out~

[notorious]

Bump for more tears.