So much for Obama not banning guns...

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So much for Obama not banning guns...
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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 11:55pm
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1

Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban
The Ban Expired in 2004 During the Bush Administration.
By JASON RYAN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2009

The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons
ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney
General Eric Holder said today.

Wednesday Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Obama
administration will seek to reinstitute the assault weapons ban which
expired in 2004 during the Bush administration.
(AP Photos/ABC News Graphic )

"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a
few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them
would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,"
Holder told reporters.

Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a
positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow
of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with
heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.

"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum."
Holder said at a news conference on the arrest of more than 700 people
in a drug enforcement crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating in
the U.S. Mexican government officials have complained that the
availability of sophisticated guns from the United States have
emboldened drug traffickers to fight over access routes into the U.S.

A State Department travel warning issued Feb. 20, 2009, reflected
government concerns about the violence.

"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels
have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic
weapons and grenades," the warning said. "Large firefights have taken
place in many towns and cities across Mexico, but most recently in
northern Mexico, including Tijuana, Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juarez."


At the news conference today, Holder described his discussions with
his Mexican counterpart about the recent spike in violence.

"I met yesterday with Attorney General Medina Mora of Mexico, and we
discussed the unprecedented levels of violence his country is facing
because of their enforcement efforts," he said.

Holder declined to offer any time frame for the reimplementation of
the assault weapons ban, however.

"It's something, as I said, that the president talked about during the
campaign," he said. "There are obviously a number of things that are -
- that have been taking up a substantial amount of his time, and so,
I'm not sure exactly what the sequencing will be."

In a brief interview with ABC News, Wayne LaPierre, president of the
National Rifle Association, said, "I think there are a lot of
Democrats on Capitol Hill cringing at Eric Holder's comments right
now."

During his confirmation hearing, Holder told the Senate Judiciary
Committee about other gun control measures the Obama administration
may consider.

"I think closing the gun show loophole, the banning of cop-killer
bullets and I also think that making the assault weapons ban
permanent, would be something that would be permitted under Heller,"
Holder said, referring to the Supreme Court ruling in Washington, D.C.
v. Heller, which asserted the Second Amendment as an individual's
right to own a weapon.


The Assault Weapons Ban signed into law by President Clinton in 1994
banned 19 types of semi-automatic military-style guns and ammunition
clips with more than 10 rounds.

"A semi-automatic is a quintessential self-defense firearm owned by
American citizens in this country," LaPierre said. "I think it is
clearly covered under Heller and it's clearly, I think, protected by
the Constitution."

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Registered: 02-05-2009
Fri, 02-27-2009 - 10:02pm

Between the two, I find bow and arrow hunting to be more barbaric.


I don't hunt any more, but still occasionally have to put down a cow, and to me a clean kill is best.

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Fri, 02-27-2009 - 10:22pm

If a new ban is the same as the last one, it only applies to the manufacture or import of new firearms and magazines.

 


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Registered: 08-30-2002
Sat, 02-28-2009 - 2:28am

**Me, too. I can't imagine being so afraid of my neighbors that I wouldn't trust them to use a gun to defend themselves.**


I'm not afraid of my neighbor so much as the fact as the bullet doesen't stop at their property line and they might miss their target in their panic, and generally in the dark. Everyone who owns a gun thinks they'd be such a dead on shot in those circumstances,



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Registered: 08-30-2002
Sat, 02-28-2009 - 2:39am

***No need to wonder. There are several published suties. Simply google "defensive gun use". I have used my gun to defend myself.***


For every one, there is probably another that can be found of an "accidental" shooting in a household, a gun theft that lead to a gun being used later for criminal activity, 11 year olds blowing their fathers gf's heads off with their youth rifles, an act of domestic violence where a husband/wife uses a legally registered weapon to kill a spouse in a crime of passion,



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Registered: 08-30-2002
Sat, 02-28-2009 - 3:01am

***I don't hunt any more, but still occasionally have to put down a cow, and to me a clean kill is best.



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Registered: 12-25-2008
Sat, 02-28-2009 - 7:27am

Two things.

 


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Sat, 02-28-2009 - 7:57am

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Sat, 02-28-2009 - 8:22am

I'm not afraid of my neighbor so much as the fact as the bullet doesen't stop at their property line and they might miss their target in their panic, and generally in the dark.


Do you have any statistics to show that this is a common occurrence? With over 100 million gun owners in the country, you shouldn't have any problem showing that this happens.


You might be interested to know that over-penetration and innocent bystanders are HUGE concerns in the gun/self defense community. Thats why we tend to choose calibers and guns that limit the threat. See the segment on wall penetration at: http://www.downrange.tv/bestdefense/videoplayer.htm


Everyone who owns a gun thinks they'd be such a dead on shot in those circumstances,

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Sat, 02-28-2009 - 8:37am

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Sat, 02-28-2009 - 8:40am

I don't understand why a hunter would need a magazine with more than ten shots. If a hunter needs more than ten bullets to bring down their prey, they really should be looking for another sport.


You're now the hunting czar? Should we submit all our personal decisions to you for your decrees?


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