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Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... 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. Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824 ...
Holder Trumpets Continuation of War on Drugs
TalkLeft —
Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the arrest of 52 people in a continuation of a Bush Administration drug investigation of the Mexican cartels. The operation began 21 months ago. The total number of arrests (a number of whom are low level traffickers) is 750. The military may get involved in the effort: The Homeland Security Department has developed a plan to send more agents and other resources, and possibly U.S. military support, to the U.S. side of the border if the drug violence continues to spill over and overwhelm the agents stationed there, a DHS ...
Obama to Reintroduce Assault Weapons Ban
TalkLeft —
Attorney General Eric Holder today said the Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban and a ban on "cop killer" bullets. "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." Just a few?
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Obama To Bring Back Assault Weapons Ban
Boots and Sabers —
Obama To Bring Back Assault Weapons Ban I seem to remember some anti-gun commenters on this blog and elsewhere saying that gun owners were being paranoid for stocking up . Watch prices skyrocket tomorrow. 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. “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. Posted by Owen at 2351 hrs ...
Democrats readying selves for full court press against the Second Amendment
doubleplusundead —
Democrats readying selves for full court press against the Second Amendment Reichsführer Holder is starting to beat the drum , "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," Oh, and Gillibrand? Just came out in favor of repealing the Tiahrt Amendment . Don't kid yourselves, the supposedly pro-2nd Democrats will mostly roll over when it's time to vote, as will a few of the Vichy Republicans. Posted by: doubleplusundead at 10:49 AM | No Comments | Add ...
US Can't Control Border- Mexico Can't Either... Team Obama Solution: Ban Assault Weapons in US
Gateway Pundit —
... At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence. ...
Obambi Seeks A New Assault Weapons Ban
Pirate's Cove —
I’ll be honest, I do not really see the point behind owning assault weapons as a private citizen, I seriously doubt there is going to be another revolution, but, see, there is that pesky 2nd Amendment thing, so, if you want one, Mr. I’m Was A Constitutional Professor wants to infringe on your Right
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.
“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and ...
Obambi Seeks A New Assault Weapons Ban
Stop The ACLU —
Obambi Seeks A New Assault Weapons Ban Posted on February 26, 2009 I’ll be honest, I do not really see the point behind owning assault weapons as a private citizen, I seriously doubt there is going to be another revolution, but, see, there is that pesky 2nd Amendment thing, so, if you want one, Mr. I’m Was A Constitutional Professor wants to infringe on your Right 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.“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that ...
You Can Have Your Medical Marijuana If You Give Me Your Gun
Hit & Run —
At a press conference yesterday where he announced the arrests of more than 700 people connected to Mexican drug cartels, Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated the Obama administration's support for reinstituting a federal "assault weapon" ban. The Democratic Party considers the law—which covered 19 models by name, along with other guns that had certain "military-style" features (such as pistol grips and bayonet mounts) and magazines holding more than 10 rounds—the very model of reasonable gun control. Its 2008 platform called for bringing back the ban, and Obama has ...
That Didn't Take Long
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In Related News, Sales* Of Atlas Shrugged Triple
small dead animals —
... why he wants that assault weapons ban; President Barack Obama will propose raising new revenue through a greenhouse gas cap and emissions trading scheme when he unveils his first budget on Thursday, US media reported. The budget he will present assumes an emissions trading system will generate revenue by 2012, the Washington Post reported. Fifteen billion dollars of the money generated would be directed to clean-energy projects, the Post said, citing sources familiar with the document. Another 60 billion would go to tax credits for lower- and middle-income working families, ...
Will the Assault Weapons Ban Make It through Congress?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... AG Eric Holder told reporters yesterday that the Obama administration intends to enact an "assault weapons" ban. In 1994 the House passed such a ban, which outlawed any semi-automatic rifle with a combination of two features such as a scope and a pistol grip, by a 216 to 214 vote. ...
Saving Mexico
Neptunus Lex —
President Obama promised as a candidate that he wasn’t going to take anyone’s guns away. Turns out he’s just not going to let you buy any new ones, at least those under the so-called “assault weapons” category. Part of his attorney general’s reasoning is to protect Mexico from American guns:
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…
Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help ...
Guns, Pot And National Security-- In The U.S. And Mexico
DownWithTyranny! —
... ." He's right-- and President Obama seems determined to ban the kinds of assault weapons that have been causing mayhem on both sides of the border. The context was a coordinated assault on the cartel's operations on both sides of the border. As many as 1,000 people have been arrested so far-- the raids are ongoing-- in California, Maryland and Minnesota. Watch this report from MSNBC about the nexus between the Mexican drug cartel, national security and archaic American gun worship: ...
Sales of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged Triple
Wizbang —
... any longer, so go on strike and deny the government the revenue from their talents and their effort. Galt's frustration is one that is spreading. Michelle Malkin writes that she has seen a few of these bumper stickers show up on cars: In 2007, Alex Epstein wrote a piece about why businessmen love Atlas Shrugged . It sounds like Fidelity's CEO, Edward Johnson, does , too. Kate at Small Dead Animals quips: Now you know why he wants that assault weapons ban ;
The Obama administration’s mistakes on the assault weapon ban.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Note plural.
Mistake #1: picking an Attorney General and administration spokesman who doesn’t even know current firearms law.
Eric Holder was on today announcing that the Obama administration was going to bring back the “assault weapons” ban. As Purple Avenger of Ace of Spades notes, this is the same guy who called for making armor piercing bullets (”cop-killers”) illegal…
COBURN: It’s nothing you’re contemplating.
And I understand President-elect Obama does have an opinion on “assault weapons,” quote, ...
Day 36: Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban
What is Obama doing? —
Probably making half of the midwestern trailer park population shake their freedom fries in anger, Obama seems to make true of his campaign statement that sales of assault weapons should be banned.
“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.
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The Right Wing Paranoia That Drove Richard Polawski To Commit Murder
Confederate Yankee —
... . The only reason to favor any of the measures Obama does above is the incremental encroachment of the Second Amendment, which has been a constant theme of his entire political career. More of those "NRA rantings" Neiwart can't seem to credit correctly have come from Attorney General Eric Holder, who said :"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 ...
Semi-Idiotic Rifle Laws
democracyarsenal.org —
The recent raid on a domestic terrorist group in North Carolina has been notable for a number of reasons. But Jeff Stein digs into the story deeper, discussing intriguing incongruities in his purported participation in the Afghan war against the USSR. But Stein also notes another more disconcerting fact from the case: ...
CNN Again Touts Apparent Rise in Militia Activity
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
On Monday’s American Morning, CNN’s Jim Acosta rehashed a three-month-old report from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center about the apparent rise in militia activity in the U.S., and extensively featured a militia from Michigan whose members purportedly “could not specify which ...
