The antis are trying to move Carolyn McCarthy’s magazine prohibition bill H.R. 308 with the power of their PSH.
Capitol Tonight, “Bicoastal Push For Large Capacity Magazine Ban“:
“The City Councils in LA and NYC introduced simultaneous resolutions today in support of federal legislation to ban large capacity ammunition magazines of the sort used by alleged Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner …”
Los Angeles Times, “L.A. mayor and police chief back federal ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines“:
“Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Police Chief Charlie Beck and other top officials voiced their support Wednesday for federal legislation that would ban large-capacity ammunition magazines such as the one used by the alleged gunman in the Tucson shooting rampage …”
Plus, in statehouse we have this.
Daily News, “State Sen. Eric Adams shows how easy it is to buy high-capacity gun clips in New York State“:
“Gun magazines packing the massive firepower of up to 30 bullets should be long gone from New York since state lawmakers banned them in 1994. They’re not. The Daily News this week accompanied State Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn) to two gun stores near Albany that routinely sell the high-capacity clips …”
RadioVoiceOnline, “Connecticut legislator proposes ex post facto law for gun magazine capacity limit“:
“Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3 of the Constitution is clear concerning ex post facto laws, but that won’t stop the anti-gun left in Connecticut from making possession of high-capacity gun magazines – previously completely legal to buy and own – a felony unless you turn in the ones you own within 90 days …”
Sadly (for the antis), reality bites.
Washington Times, “No hope for gun grabbers“:
“The left has permanently lost the argument on gun control. Despite their best efforts to take advantage of the tragic shooting in Arizona to promote pointless restrictions on things like the size of handgun magazines, the propaganda campaign is unlikely to go anywhere. Instead, the right to keep and bear arms continues to gain steam as state lawmakers around the country are enacting measures that would have been unthinkable not so long ago …”
“…state lawmakers around the country are enacting measures that would have been unthinkable not so long ago …”
True.
Yesterday, Wyoming became the 4th state to enact constitutional carry. No “papers” required to exercise a basic human right.
Meanwhile, in the loony land of downstate New York, the collective rights commies talk about a collective right to have gun control laws. They can no longer claim that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is a collective right, since the US Supreme Court has ruled that it is an individual right.
So, they’ve conjured up a new, but nonexistent collective right in an effort to once again underhandedly trump the plain meaning of the Bill of Rights. Maybe the collective right to gun control was written on the back of the US Constitution, in invisible ink that only true believers can see, at midnight, under a full moon, on a Thursday. McCarthy and her McCarthyites can go howl at the moon!
“Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn)”. That should read, “Sen. Eric Adams (D-Crooklyn)”.
He does a great job of keeping the heat off of his criminal constituents, doesn’t he? That’s what they elected him to do. If he supported legislation aimed at downstate criminals, instead of at law-abiding, upstate, gun owners, his constituents would shoot him. His Crooklyn gangbangers would just walk up to him and shoot him dead.
We definitely need to get him to stop pushing gun control nonsense and support a piece of real, anti-crime legislation, like harsh prison sentences for gangbangers who kill. He could name it the “Senator Eric Adams Memorial Crime Bill”. Hopefully, he would live long enough to see it become law. That way, he would benefit from it. Posthumously anyway.