Obama to ban sale of assault rifles-video

[jimdana1942]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Po7iXYdJw&feature=related[/ame]

PLEASE CANCEL this post as unknown to me it was OLD news.

 

[Landry308]

IIRC that is pretty old video.

 

[Speedlace]

This was more than 14 months ago.

 

[jimdana1942]

Date?

I don't know, I just saw it today.

 

[nola_]

Good thing semi auto is not assault rifle,

 

[Speedlace]

From an old thread a month after the up-roar when Holder made those comments:
http://www.bayoushooter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14653

A Self-Inflicted Gun Wound
Why is Attorney General Eric Holder backing away from an assault weapons ban?

After fierce resistance from the gun lobby and its allies in Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder has dialed back talk about reimposing a federal assault weapons ban to help curb the spiraling violence in Mexico.

As much as 90 percent of the assault weapons and other guns used by Mexican drug cartels are coming from the United States, fueling drug-related violence that is believed to have killed more than 7,000 people since January 2008, according to estimates by Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials. But the political obstacles to addressing the U.S.-to-Mexico weapons flow are dramatically underscored by Holder's experience in just the last few weeks.

Speaking at a Feb. 25 news conference announcing a roundup of Mexican cartel members in the United States, Holder endorsed reinstituting the ban on assault weapons—a position that President Obama himself supported during last year's campaign. A federal ban on high-powered, semi-automatic assault weapons, originally passed by Congress in 1994, expired five years ago.

"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 said in response to a question from a Mexican reporter. "I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico at a minimum." Holder then ducked a follow-up question about whether he expected Congress to act on a renewed ban this year, saying, "I'm not sure exactly what the sequencing will be" on legislative issues that the Obama administration presses on Capitol Hill.

But his comments roused the gun lobby. The National Rifle Association quickly sent out "action alerts" to its members. Sixty-five House Democrats signed a letter saying they would oppose any new ban—as did Montana's two Democratic senators, Max Baucus and Jon Tester. "Senators to Attorney General Holder: Stay Away From Our Guns," read a press release sent out by Baucus's office. In addition, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid both shot down the idea that Congress would take up any new assault weapons ban this year.

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[dzelenka]

People. Please make sure your information is current. It is a waste of resources bringing up old issues.

 

[Vigilante Sniper]

Lets pass a law to ban all Illegals from entering the US, kick out the ones that are here, stop giving instant citizenship to illegals born here when their mothers hopped across the borders to have them, and make it legal to shoot anyone crossing illegally. Thats my plan for immigration. As far as assault weapons in Mexico, thats their problem not ours.

 

[jimdana1942]

People. Please make sure your information is current. It is a waste of resources bringing up old issues.

Okay--sorry if you were offended. I just saw it on the net and thought it was interesting but evidently not.


I'll have to re-think if I want to continue to make any more posts on BS as evidently some get offended if a post may be out of date when it was not my intent to offend anyone.

 

[thatwhichisnt]

Guess I should stock up on pump action aks from century. I wonder if they have it in chrome.

 

[apdanos]

Lets pass a law to ban all Illegals from entering the US, kick out the ones that are here, stop giving instant citizenship to illegals born here when their mothers hopped across the borders to have them, and make it legal to shoot anyone crossing illegally. Thats my plan for immigration. As far as assault weapons in Mexico, thats their problem not ours.

Totally agree.

 

[charliepapa]

What does this mean????

+1, but didn't this happen already about 544 posts ago?