Dem Senator Capitalizes on OK Tornado Tragedy

UPDATE: Now you can take your pick, the nutcake are out of the oven. Politico’s Thrush saw a need to get in a word of his valiant planet-saving prose. If it weren’t for Thrush we wouldn’t have Papua New Guinea.

Oops! My mistake. That was Barbara Boxer who saved Papua New Guinea. My bad.

Rhode Island Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Is that a politician’s name or what?) took to the Senate floor today, to blast Republicans for not joining with him and that crazed sex poodle Al Gore in saving the planet… and Oklahoma and places.

TheDC via Drudge:

While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming…

“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. [More]

That and the July 20, 1969 moon landing. That’s when they really messed up the weather. You guessed it—Nixon. Then NASA conspired to make Buzz Aldrin the second man on the moon, which was a conspiracy against New Jersey…

Really, has this man no shame? Fifty-one dead at last count in Oklahoma City, many of them children, and he is so devoid of compassion that all he thinks about is making political hay. [Update: Thank God the original numbers have diminished.]

Unfortunately the IRS and media targeting scandals will probably bury this moron’s shameful display, but I had to post it.

We saw this after Newtown with Obama’s rush to move on the Second Amendment. Is there a Tea Party in Rhode Island? Probably not. Show of hands. Is there a RINO we can find to run against this guy?

HT Drudge

Joe Biden’s Doctor Will See You Now

Joe Biden would call me part of the ‘black helicopter’ crowd. Which is ridiculous. I am all for keeping guns out of the hands of three-alarm buffoons who tell people to blast off a couple of 12-gauge rounds when they’re scared. Whoa! You don’t want to drop by the Biden house for cup of sugar, after dark.

Anyway…

Anyone knows the government doesn’t need gunships to confiscate firearms. All it needs is an ill-defined law — intentional or otherwise — that allows bureaucrats to classify anyone they choose as mentally ill.

Hot Air:

We’ve heard it over and over again, particularly on shows like Morning Joe. Anyone who thinks that the government is “coming to take your guns” is a paranoid loon, watching for black helicopters and guarding their sheep from soldiers. Unfortunately for those formerly right leaning, Second Amendment minded folks who bought into this story, reality has come screaming up from behind well ahead of schedule.

Following the passage of “The SAFE Act” in New York State, Big Brother got busy pretty quickly grabbing up the guns. Of course nobody was reporting on it very much until they managed to collect them from the wrong guy and a judge made them give them back.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thursday, a state Supreme Court Judge ruled guns seized from David Lewis, 35, must be returned to him after he was incorrectly identified as violating the mental health provision of the SAFE Act.

“We know that from the health care agency to the State Police, there was some kind of breach,” said Lewis’ attorney, Jim Tresmond.

I don’t know how much more chilling that lede could be, really. This isn’t some worry about the government possibly confiscating guns. These are guns that were already confiscated by the government. But if you think that’s as bad as it gets, guess again. Here’s why his guns were taken.

Tresmond says his client was ordered to turn in his weapons last week because he was once on anti-anxiety medication, which is a violation of the SAFE Act. Wednesday, State Police informed the Erie County Clerk’s Office that it made a mistake when it said Lewis was in violation of the state’s new gun law. [More]

Mistake? Yeah right.

No biggie, huh? I mean, New York has always been like Ross Perot’s ‘crazy aunt in the basement.’

But what just happened in New York is exactly what the Toomey-Manchin universal background check will require nationally.

Just what defines ‘mental illness’? A DUI? Seeing a therapist? Yelling at your kid? Taking a tranquilizer to sleep at night? … Or maybe just pissing off the wrong doctor or bureaucrat…

Gutfeld Eviscerates Harris-Perry, MSNBC For ‘Collectivism’ Spot

Since the mid-1950s, Hollywood and the left wing media have turned ‘communist’ into a sort of N-word for pseudo-intellectuals. No one uses it anymore.

But we think it’s due for a comeback.

MSNBC’s latest ‘Lean Forward’ spot smacks of the plain old fashioned twentieth century communist crap we grew up hating. Where is Herbert A. Philbrick when you need him?

The promotion, fronted by the cable news channel’s Melissa Harris-Perry, had Sarah Palin hot enough to thaw a glacier, and it has revved up other conservatives like we’ve not seen for some time.

Okay, the so-called mainstream media are pimping for a complete government takeover of the family, ala 1990s Hillary Rodham Clinton. Disturbing. But it is also hilarious to see a Greg Gutfeld dismember the arguments of those who Vladimir Lenin called ‘useful idiots,’ like Harris-Perry and Bob Beckel.

Excerpted from Mediaite:

Meanwhile, Greg Gutfeld saw a curious “inconsistency” in what Harris-Perry said, asking if “children belong to the community, does that include the unborn?” He answered his own question, “Of course not.” Later Gutfeld called MSNBC’s decision to run the promo the “dumbest thing” they’ve done “since hiring Keith Olbermann.”

Liberal co-host Bob Beckel tried to defend Harris-Perry to some degree, but that wasn’t so easy with the four other hosts going so hard the other way. While he said he understood what she was trying to say about children being part of a larger community, he thought that “collective is a bad choice of words” because of that word’s association with socialism.

Aside from Beckel’s small attempts to explain a more benign interpretation of what Harris-Perry said in the promo, the other hosts mostly echoed what Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and other critics of the video have been voicing since it first emerged over the weekend, only at a slightly louder volume.

Watching Beckel scramble to tack a new frame on this ancient piece of elitist garbage was side-splitting. It doesn’t ‘take a village to raise a child,’ but it does take a village idiot to explain it.

NBC should just take off the mask; no one with a brain believes the network has an objective producer or journalist in the corporation. If they keep this up — and there is no reason to believe they will not — the once venerated ‘Peacock Network’ will be sucking up National Endowment for the Humanities’ dollars like a runaway Hoover.

W/E Wrap — Beyonce and Jay-Z Go Cuber, and Other Stuff

Beyoncé Knowles and hubby, rapper Jay-Z (which is ebonics for Shawn Corey Carter), are in Cuba to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary, and some people are really PO’d about it.

TMZ:

Jay-Z and Beyonce are clueless about the tortures happening in Cuba, and it’s insulting they chose to visit the communist country for a celebration … so says a Cuban rights lobbyist.

Mauricio Claver-Carone, the D.C. director for the US-Cuba Democracy PAC — a group committed to fighting for democracy in Cuba — tells TMZ the A-listers should’ve educated themselves about what’s really going on there before taking photo ops.

Jay and Bey were photographed Thursday in Havana — reportedly to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary — but have since come under fire from some Cuban-American groups.

US citizens are still technically banned from traveling to the island purely for tourism … and are supposed to obtain a travel license from the US government.

Mauricio says he’s disappointed the superstars chose to vacay in Cuba because, “There are women getting beaten on a daily basis, women who are being jailed for no reason … people are fighting for their freedom. It’s extremely insensitive.” [More]

Just goes to show. You can dress it up, give it a limo and a jet, wallpaper the mansion with $100 bills, and it still won’t replace a high school diploma.

Oh, So This Is What You Mean By ‘Green’ Energy…

What’s another $200 million in a $4 trillion economy? Why, it doesn’t  even finance a so-so trip to India.

Big Government:

Fisker Automotive, Inc., the much celebrated maker of luxury electric cars, has announced that it is firing 80% of its employees after failing to finalize an investment deal.

The manufacturer of the rechargeable Karma auto informed 160 workers of the layoffs coming to the Anaheim, California-based company. Fisker was said to have employed 200 before this week’s announcement.

This is only the latest blow to the “green” auto company. Only last month, the company’s name-sake, Henrik Fisker, resigned over “unspecified” disagreements with other executives and the company stopped production of its cars after its lithium-ion battery supplier declared bankruptcy.

The battery company, A123 Systems Inc., declared bankruptcy in October of last year, despite the millions in tax dollars pumped into the company by President Obama’s administration. [More]

Now we know why they named their car the Karma. It can be reincarnated in its next life as a Volkswagen Beetle.

Barack’s Fair Share

Sequestration has finally hit the second floor at the White House. Yep, President Obama went all in this week with a sacrificial 5 percent of his annual salary.

Quick, IRS! Cancel your plans to audit.

You are kidding, right? You know how ridiculous this is when even Dana Milbank takes off his kneepads.

Five percent. Let’s see. That will cover almost 10 minutes of Air Force One flight time; a White House kiddie tour for a quarter of a day; maybe three holes and a beer in the club house with Tiger, counting Secret Service agents in the sand traps.

Uh, maybe Mooch could forego a pedicure or two?

Obama Skips Lunch: Food ‘Taster’ a No-Show

All right, we hold elections every four years and we hire these guys. Then they go on $900,000 golf outings, squeeze us for $100,000 in separate vacation expenses, $500,000 FLOTUS romps to Spain; and as much as $200 million a day for a dubious trip to Mumbai!

Now we learn the President of the United States needs a food taster in tow before he can eat lunch with the Senate of the United States?

The DC:

WASHINGTON — Following President Obama’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins described the food served and said the president was not able to eat since his “taster” was not present.

“University of Maine recipe for healthy lobster salad — I pointed that out to the president in keeping with the first lady’s initiatives and Fox Family Potato Chips made in Aroostook County where I’m from and wild blueberry pie full of anti-oxidants, see this was a healthy lunch as well. We did have a little ice cream on the pie too, also made in Maine, Gifford’s Ice Cream. So in all seriousness this was well received,” Collins told reporters on Thursday after the meeting at the Capitol.

“Unfortunately, you know, the president can’t,” said Collins when asked if Obama ate at the lunch meeting. “He looked longingly at it,” Collins continued. “He honestly did look longingly at it, but apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over so, but he did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting.”

Susan Collins in an attempt to assassinate the president? Not to be unkind, but Senator Collins couldn’t find the door without a guide dog.

Just how does one apply for this job? Who is this person and how much do we pay him? We can’t keep White House tours humming but we can cough up the piasters for this mo tard to sample pig on a spit? When does the dwarf-throwing contest begin?

Okay, we realize food tasters are not unique to the Obama presidency, but with George W. Bush there was at least the suggestion of danger; he had Helen Thomas in the press pool.

And is this not this is why we have line of succession and a vice president? Okay, bad idea.

Mr. President, you have eaten dog. The First Pooch can’t take this risk? What, are you saving him for Thanksgiving?

Feinstein Snipes at Ted Cruz on Gun Control: ‘I Walked In, I Saw People Shot.’

Uh-O, somebody’s not getting her Ensure.

We picked this up from the Weekly Standard via Hot Air this morning. Interesting how DiFi crows, not only about her overly-long tenure in the Senate (Noah had just landed on Mt. Ararat), but also how she dissembles the debate into the murders of former San Francisco mayor George Moscone and councilman Harvey Milk by fellow councilman Dan White. Feinstein assumed the mayorship after the event.

We caught something WS and Hot Air may have missed.

Weekly Standard:

“The question that I would pose to the senior senator from California is,” said Cruz to Feinstein, “Would she deem it consistent with the Bill of Rights for Congress to engage in the same endeavor that we are contemplating doing with the Second Amendment in the context of the First or Fourth Amendment, namely, would she consider it constitutional for Congress to specify that the First Amendment shall apply only to the following books and shall not apply to the books that Congress has deemed outside the protection of the Bill of Rights? Likewise, would she think that the Fourth Amendment’s protection against searches and seizures could properly apply only to the following specified individuals and not to the individuals that Congress has deemed outside the protection of the Bill of Rights?

“I’m not a sixth grader,” said Feinstein. “Senator, I’ve been on this committee for 20 years. I was a mayor for nine years. I walked in, I saw people shot. I’ve looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons. I’ve seen the bullets that implode. In Sandy Hook, youngsters were dismembered. Look, there are other weapons. I’ve been up — I’m not a lawyer, but after 20 years I’ve been up close and personal to the Constitution. I have great respect for it. This doesn’t mean that weapons of war and the Heller decision clearly points out three exceptions, two of which are pertinent here. And so I — you know, it’s fine you want to lecture me on the Constitution. I appreciate it. Just know I’ve been here for a long time. I’ve passed on a number of bills. I’ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated, and I thank you for the lecture.”

So don’t correct me with facts while I’m being senile, sonny!

Just kidding.

Why is Feinstein’s reference to the Milk-Moscone murders poignant? Because Councilman White used a five-shot Smith and Wesson .38-caliber Chief’s Special to murder Sean Penn… er, Harvey Milk and George Moscone.

Under DiFi’s ‘Assault Weapon’s’ ban, Milk and Moscone would still be dead. Ah, but Feinstein, who was where any unarmed Democrat should be, under her desk, is alive.

So how many bullets are too many for Senator Feinstein? One.

Assault on Freedom is Universal; It’s Not Just About Guns

Think.

We just decided someone should say that first thing today.

This morning the news blogs are full of columns and articles about gun control. We’ll take two: The almost-too-sensible-for-American-consumption Precedent Teaches Us The Left Really Wants ALL Our Guns, by legendary country guitarist and fiddle player Charlie Daniels, and the downright spooky, Patriotic Group To Build Armed ‘Defensible’ Neighborhood Fortress.

The latter, a group called the Citadel, is opting for the bunker mentality approach, while Daniels points out how gun control has failed in Australia.

We don’t think either article does much to address the problems facing the United States. The Citadel is spooky because if we have come to this we have already lost; and as much as we love Charlie we are not Australia.

When taken as a whole, the Left’s agenda for America is 1 percent genius and 99 percent stupidity. The ninety-nine percent, we saw last year defecating, raping, burning outhouses and starting bonfires in parks, streets and public buildings across America.

They called it “Occupying,” but it was well-funded anarchy, cluelessly manned by groups of morons who are simply unhappy with the way their lives have turned out. Led by the brilliant 1 percent.  Sort of a mini French Revolution.

Most people have at least heard of Saul Alinsky by now. His Rules For Radicals is an NFL-style playbook for the Left. One of Alinsky’s rules is: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”

This is how the Left is satisfying its agenda on the myth of climate control née global warming, and it is how they intend to restrict gun rights to the degree that owning a firearm will not make much of a difference.

This is what you see every day when that fop Brian Williams or that way-unconvincing chemical blonde Diane Sawyer come into your living room and love on you for 60 minutes and give you their opinion of you what you should know about today’s news. Over and over and over, night after night after night, until you accept it. Another Alinsky rule: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”

A former U.S. vice president just made $300 million selling his fraudulent “green” cable channel to the propaganda wing of our enemy. Our media celebrated. The good folks at Al-Jazeera are their colleagues in the international press.

So we’re talking about the one percent genius here.

Alinsky came up with one more rule that works nicely for the gun debate (see, we’re all ready calling it a debate): “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

Understand, Alinsky’s book is not a primer; its methods, long before he published his book, have been used by every socialist movement on the planet. It’s a playbook. It works, and it works brilliantly in an apathetic society, such as Germany in the 1930s. Or America in the twenty-first century.

Ask yourself: Why would a nation not use its most effective weapon in a war against an enemy 110 million-strong? Why did the United States not turn Afghanistan into the world’s biggest salt flat? Because the Left has made the use of the Bomb unpalatable to the American public. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” We ended our greatest war with it, but it was inhumane.

America is because it stands alone, above all others. No nation in the history of the world even approaches its success. The fact that Australia implemented gun control, whether it worked or failed, is of no consequence to us. We are different.

And hovering in bunkers will not defeat our enemies.

Write your congressman often: flood him or her with emails and letters. Choose your topics from the headlines and bombard Washington weekly, if not daily. Guns, climate control, border security; create an avalanche of communication. Reverse Alinsky’s Rules: push the negatives; keep the pressure on; politely ridicule his or her positions on issues with which you disagree.

You will get their attention.

Oh, and stop watching Brian and Dee-Dee.

h/t Drudge

The Left Zeros in on Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty

UPDATE: ED ASNER, MARTIN SHEEN ‘BLACKLIST’ BIGELOW-ZERO DARK THIRTY

Big Hollywood:

Hollywood celebrities will never stop talking about the horrors of the Blacklist, an era when Communist sympathizers within the industry were hounded for their beliefs, losing work and even their freedom in the worst cases.

Yet when stars like Ed Asner and Martin Sheen insist Academy voters boycott a film because it doesn’t align with their worldview, those same Blacklist bashers fall silent.

We’ve already seen veteran actor David Clennon declare his intentions to punish the film Zero Dark Thirty this awards season for allegedly promoting torture.

Now, a pair of higher profile stars are repeating Clennon’s wish to smite the film for having the wrong ideology.

Asner and Sheen have joined a list of actors protesting the movie because of the torture scenes. “I would like to condemn the movie,” Asner told the New York Times. Asner and Sheen are asking Oscar voters to ”factor in matters of conscience when casting awards votes,” the report says.

We think this calls for another boycott: Let’s all boycott Ed Asner and Martin Sheen movies. Wait. Ed Asner and Martin Sheen aren’t in any movies. Well, ooo-kay then.

Remember all the hubbub about the makers of Zero Dark Thirty receiving inside information from the CIA on the bin Laden operation? Many on the right were livid.

We weren’t much concerned. After all, it was Crazy Joe Biden who outted SEAL Team 6. The filmmakers saw a riveting story and wanted to present it to the public.

Here at Mojo we have been watching director Kathryn Bigelow’s career since, gosh, way back when she made Strange Days in the 1990s. RRG was on the set of that film for an interview. The movie bombed and I nearly bitch-slapped Ralph Fiennes (he’s within my slapabilty range) for the way he kept looking at my wife. Just kidding. However, Days was still fairly early in the director’s career.

But Bigelow, who was formerly married to Titanic director James Cameron, did slap RRG blind with 2010’s spot-on The Hurt Locker.

Finally, a movie about the Iraq war that didn’t bash George W. Bush or — and this was all-important to us — our troops. Yes, we know some disagreed, but we thought Locker was a fair portrayal in light of what Hollywood was doing at the time. Remember Lions For Lambs? Well, a whole lot of other anti-American tripe.

Bigelow has twice now resisted the seeming Industry PC edict against portraying anyone with a headscarf not purchased at Nordstrom’s in a negative light, right down to the killing of unfriendly “friendlies”.

Now it seems she is paying for it with her blockbuster Zero Dark Thirty.

We are not going to go so far as to suggest Bigelow is a conservative, but her unbiased portrayals of U.S. soldiers at war and America in general as the good guy have garnered her huge box office success, and our respect.

Yes, she got waterboarding wrong. Best performed, it’s done with a cotton-latex mask and a squeegee bottle. (Send Nancy Pelosi over; we’ll be tender.) But no one, least of all no one in Hollywood, is perfect.

Bigelow gets other things wrong, as well. Let’s danged well hope she does anyway; most of the bin Laden operation is still classified. Shhh, don’t tell Barack. And regardless of the film being based on true events let’s not forget it is fiction. Unlike Oliver Stone’s JFK.

One of Bigelow’s strengths is her portrayal of men as men, an asset few women directors, or fiction writers for that matter, seem to possess. Bigelow’s men — you can see this in her earlier films, like Point Break and K-19: The Widowmaker — are men who act like men. Not a metrosexual in the bunch.  Bigelow’s men are not likely to be musing over whether or not they need a manicure.

Kathryn Bigelow has now come under attack from the Left. Even Senator Dianne Feinstein (DiFi), whose bread is largely buttered by Hollywood nutcakes is steaming mad. Because Bigelow got waterboarding wrong? No. Because she insinuates that it worked in getting bin Laden.

Jeez, send Feinstein over with Pelosi. Personally we think a pack of Marlboro and a Bic are more effective, but that’s just us.

First, gay hack Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) launched a diatribe against Bigelow after she won the Oscar for Locker in 2010, and now über-hack Naomi Wolf is going off on her for Zero Dark Thirty, calling Bigelow a fascist. Of course in Hollywood anyone who doesn’t eat off-menu is a fascist.

Bigelow is the only woman in the history of the Academy to win Best Director Oscar, and only one of four to be nominated. In the oh-so tolerant Hollywood bubble how do numbers like that add up? In “blacklisting” Bigelow this year (she was scandalously ignored for the nomination) her detractors have used excuses ranging from It’s not violent enough to How dare her suggest that the CIA did something right!

We like Zero Dark Thirty and hope Kathryn Bigelow keeps them coming. And, Kathryn, if you are not a conservative, come on over; girls who like guns are sexy.

Let’s Pray For Piers Morgan, Everybody

That’s probably what mega-church founder Rick Warren would want me to say after CNN’s top entry in the Moron of the Year Pageant once again proved himself an insufferable pric… er, prig.

Big Journalism:

Piers Morgan has done it again, this time saying that both the Bible and the U.S. Constitution are “inherently flawed” and need new “amendments.”

During Morgan’s Monday, December 24 broadcast of his cable spectacle, CNN’s British import once again attacked America’s most deeply held principles by slaming both the Constitution and the Bible.

Morgan was interviewing Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren when he essentially went for the throat.

“Both the Bible and the Constitution were well intentioned, but they are basically, inherently flawed. Hence, the need to amend it. My point to you about gay rights, for example, it’s time for an amendment to the bible,” the CNN host said.

There’s more.

Hot Air:

And not just the Bible, but Piers Morgan wants to amend the Constitution, too. It’s a darn good thing that the CNN host needed work badly enough to emigrate to a place that he finds so disagreeable.  What did we ever do without him? [Video]

I have no issue with the concept of amending the Constitution — and neither did the founders, who accepted that it might prove flawed for later use.  That’s why they included the mechanisms for amending the foundational document of American law within it, mechanisms that have been used 17 times since the original passage of the Constitution.  We have even had one amendment repeal another (the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th).  If Morgan wants to press for an amendment repealing the Second Amendment in whole or in part, he just needs to convince two-thirds of both the House and Senate to pass it, and then get three-quarters of the states to ratify it. Have fun storming the castle!

His insistence on amending the Bible amuses more than it shocks, because it’s impossible to take Morgan seriously.  He’s needling Rick Warren, nothing more, and attempting to provoke him into a heated exchange. Warren is simply smarter than Morgan, and takes a pass.

If Morgan was serious, then it’s still less offensive than humorous, but the joke is on Morgan.  If you believe that the Bible is the unerring word of God, then you know that it’s absurd to suggest that it be “amended” based on the latest human fashion, which is what Warren explains.  God is, after all, unchangeable — or He wouldn’t be God at all. It would be equally absurd to think that anyone would base their faith on the amended product, a Gospel According To Piers, if you will, unless people decided that Piers is either God Himself or a new prophet, in which case he’d probably have a better gig.

And if you don’t think that the Bible is the unerring word of God … why would you care what’s in it at all?

Dear God. Please forgive Piers Morgan for his arrogant, uninformed, faithless, godless, self-centered, narcissistic, anti-American, blasphemous tongue and make him a new person in your beloved Son….

Or just turn him into an over-toasted English muffin… Using your own omniscient judgment, of course.

Feinkenstein Goes For Handguns, Rifles, Shotguns!!!

Via Drudge: These are the hot points in Dianne Feinstein’s antigun legislation coming up in January in the Senate. Lock and load people; this is going to get messy.

Stopping the spread of deadly assault weapons

Stay informed

In January, Senator Feinstein will introduce a bill to stop the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devises. (Er, we think she means devices).

To receive updates on this legislation, click here.

Press releases

Feinstein to Introduce Updated Assault Weapons Bill in New Congress, December 17, 2012

Feinstein Statement on Connecticut School Shooting, December 14, 2012

Summary of 2013 legislation

Following is a summary of the 2013 legislation:

Bans the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacturing of:

120 specifically-named firearms

Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one military characteristic

Semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds

Strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and various state bans by:

Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test

Eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test

Banning firearms with “thumbhole stocks” and “bullet buttons” to address attempts to “work around” prior bans

Bans large-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of accepting more than 10 rounds. 

Protects legitimate hunters and the rights of existing gun owners by:

Grandfathering weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment

Exempting over 900 specifically-named weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes and

Exempting antique, manually-operated, and permanently disabled weapons

Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:

Background check of owner and any transferee;

Type and serial number of the firearm;

Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;

Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and

Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration

No word on whether or not Feinstein intends to ban Eric Holder. A self-described moderate, Feinstein is one of the most liberal members of the Senate, and California just reelected her! The nutcakes are out in force drumming this piece of crap legislation. Write, email, Fax, call your RINO and warn him/her that this will matter in 2014.

h/t The Right Scoop