Got this email from Alan Korwin on Feinstein's bill. In addition to 122 banned weapons by name, there's this:

 

I've just finished reading the 122 pages of Diane Feinstein's latest "gun-control" bill, Senate Bill S.150, and was surprised to find some important things missing.

 

Even more surprising was one small item briefly mentioned on page 13 that has not been reported in any "news" coverage I have seen. It's a whopper -- it invalidates her entire list of guns, and I've written ten books on this topic, I know what I'm saying! -- but first, here's what's missing:

 

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The problem on page 13:

All semi-autos are outlawed, not just some.

 

 

Pro-rights and anti-rights attention has been focused on the tremendous list of guns that would be banned under Feinstein's bill, which takes up a significant portion of the 122 pages of this proposal.

 

Here's the problem none of the "news" reports have spotted:

 

The list of guns doesn't matter.

Magazine size doesn't matter.

If the semi-auto firearm has anything to grip it by, it is banned.

It's very clever actually.

 

According to the bill, any semiautomatic firearm that uses a magazine -- handgun, rifle or shotgun -- equipped with a "pistol grip," would be banned. That sounds like a limitation, but it is not.

 

A pistol grip (on page 2) is defined (on page 13) as "a grip, a thumb-hole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip." In other words, the gun list does not matter. It is a smokescreen designed to distract people from the true meaning of the bill. And it has done a magnificent job. It worked!

 

Any semi-automatic firearm that exists, with anything on it you can grip, is banned. (There is a grandfather clause for old stuff.)

 

The list is meaningless tripe. It is camouflage for the real purpose of the bill. When the president said he is not going to take away your guns, well, Feinstein's bill puts the lie to that.

 

Magazine size does not matter. Brand name does not matter. It doesn't matter if it's black. If you can grip it, it's banned under this bill.

 

Have a nice day.

 

 

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.]

God help us

 

Please

Wasn't there another topic on this?

 

 

I remember reading that those restrictions were limited to "rifles", not pistols.

I remember reading that those restrictions were limited to "rifles", not pistols.

 

Are you inferring it's acceptable as long as its "only" rifles and not pistols?!

Are you inferring it's acceptable as long as its "only" rifles and not pistols?!

 

Was that stated? I think not. And no that's not right.

 

(D) A semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detchable magazine and any 1 of the following:

 

(i) A threaded barrel

(ii) A second pistol grip

(iii) A barrel shroud

(iv) AThe capacity to accept a detachable magazine at some location outside of the pistol grip.