Snippets of the Gun Control Act ......

If this passes.........ALL semi auto guns will be banned...........not just some, but all. This is a very good example of word games in the current bill.

[I]The Law (If This Passes):

"(36) The term 'semiautomatic assault weapon' means any of the following, regardless of country of manufacture or caliber of ammunition accepted:"

"(A) A semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any 1 of the following:"

"(i) A pistol grip."

"(46) The term 'pistol grip' means a grip, a thumb-hole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip."

[The same language is repeated for handguns and shotguns; magazine includes belt fed; also included: "Any combination of parts from which a firearm described in subparagraphs (A) through (K) can be assembled;"]

"(v)(1) It shall be unlawful for a person to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a semiautomatic assault weapon."

[All government agencies of every kind, including school officers, are excluded from all of this. In other words, they can have all the firearms you now own that Feinstein's bill would outlaw for you. This means that rights you now have to own property would be stripped from you. That is rights denial, not crime prevention.]

The proper role of government is to protect people's rights. It says so right there in the Declaration of Independence, the document and principles that got this country going and launched individual freedom across the entire surface of the Earth. When government gets to the business of taking away rights we already have -- no matter what justification or reasoning it uses, as Mrs. Feinstein is now doing -- it is doing exactly opposite of what its legitimate role is, and that has a very dangerous and ugly name. As a refresher on basic principles:[/I]

46 defines what a "pistol grip" is......It is very ambiguous, and by my reading ( and many, many others), it means ALL.

Later,

Geo

This is scary stuff. I'm amazed at how wrong these people are but AGAIN are being given a pass by the liberal media. Many of them are pushing this as the only way to go and the facts don't back them up. Why has this country's (leaders) become so dead set on restricting people's rights??

[QUOTE=GeoFisher;507617]If this passes.........ALL semi auto guns will be banned...........not just some, but all. This is a very good example of word games in the current bill.

[I]The Law (If This Passes):

"(36) The term 'semiautomatic assault weapon' means any of the following, regardless of country of manufacture or caliber of ammunition accepted:"

"(A) A semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any 1 of the following:"

"(i) A pistol grip."

"(46) The term 'pistol grip' means a grip, a thumb-hole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip."

[The same language is repeated for handguns and shotguns; magazine includes belt fed; also included: "Any combination of parts from which a firearm described in subparagraphs (A) through (K) can be assembled;"]

"(v)(1) It shall be unlawful for a person to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a semiautomatic assault weapon."

[All government agencies of every kind, including school officers, are excluded from all of this. In other words, they can have all the firearms you now own that Feinstein's bill would outlaw for you. This means that rights you now have to own property would be stripped from you. That is rights denial, not crime prevention.]

The proper role of government is to protect people's rights. It says so right there in the Declaration of Independence, the document and principles that got this country going and launched individual freedom across the entire surface of the Earth. When government gets to the business of taking away rights we already have -- no matter what justification or reasoning it uses, as Mrs. Feinstein is now doing -- it is doing exactly opposite of what its legitimate role is, and that has a very dangerous and ugly name. As a refresher on basic principles:[/I]

46 defines what a "pistol grip" is......It is very ambiguous, and by my reading ( and many, many others), it means ALL.

Later,

Geo[/QUOTE]

If this is interpreted correctly, they're going to have an awful tough time enforcing this. It will also make a lot of law abiding citizens law breakers.

Are current owners supposed to go hat in hand to the nearest government facility and turn them in?

George Orwell's "1984" doesn't seem so far fetched anymore.