Ms Feinstein is in hogs heaven..............she has been trying to do this for decades, and she has wholly outdone herself this time.  She has a list of about 150 guns and rifles on her bill.  And like her friend in NY, she is talking leaving enough guns for hunting and sporting purposes when she knows or darn well should that is NOT why the founders made our right to keep and bear arms number 2 on the bill of rights and were sure to include "shall not be infringed".  I would say she has put together a bill that most assuredly infringes!  Time for action on this if you haven't already written to your senators and congressman/woman.

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1/24/2013

Congressional Democrats introduced a new and broader assault-weapons ban  Thursday, in a vivid press conference that included a display of various weapons  they want to outlaw.

It was a measure that was quickly condemned by the National Rifle Association  as an assault on the Constitution, "instead of prosecuting criminals or fixing  our broken mental health system."

"The American people know gun bans do not work and we are confident Congress  will reject Senator Feinstein's wrong-headed approach," spokeswoman Andrew  Arulanandam said.

The measure was written by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was behind  the original 1994 assault-weapons ban which expired in 2004. It marks the first  major legislative step since President Obama, in the wake of the Newtown school  shooting, called for new gun control measures including a new and stronger  assault-weapons ban.

"Our weak gun laws allow these mass killings to be carried out again, and  again, and again in our country," Feinstein said. "Weapons, designed originally  for the military to kill large numbers of people in close combat, are replicated  for civilian use."

She said the bill she and her colleagues are introducing would bar the "sale,  transfer, manufacture and importation" of assault weapons. It would also ban  magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.

As part of the press conference, lawmakers displayed an array of weapons,  including a Colt AR-15, a semi-automatic assault rifle, and an Intratec TEC-9, a  semi-automatic handgun.

The move comes after NBC News host David Gregory faced an investigation for  displaying a banned magazine on a Sunday show in the District -- but the Senate  sergeant-at-arms office said the weapons were displayed Thursday in "compliance"  with all applicable laws.

The office said they are "authentic" and in the custody of the Philadelphia  and D.C. police departments, which brought them.

The weapons ban, though, faces long odds even after last month's mass school  shooting in the state of Connecticut.

In a statement, Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said the proposal would have  done "nothing" to prevent the Newtown tragedy and vowed to fight to defeat the  bill.

"Washington politicians shouldn't be taking advantage of recent tragedy to  try to push an aggressive gun control agenda. Real assault weapons -- machine  guns -- are already functionally illegal, and they have been since 1934," he  said.

The last ban expired in 2004 when Congress refused to renew it under pressure  from the National Rifle Association, a gun advocacy group. There's continuing  disagreement about the effectiveness of the original assault-weapons ban, and  measures like beefed-up background checks on gun sales may be more likely to  pass.

Definitions of what qualifies as an assault weapon have varied over time and  across states.

According to a summary from Feinstein's office, her bill would place bans on  120 "specifically named firearms," as well as certain other semiautomatic guns  -- and those with a fixed magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds.

While the 1994 law defined an assault weapon as one that had, in most cases,  a detachable magazine and at least two characteristics as set by Congress, the  new bill would define an assault weapon as one that meets just one of those  characteristics.

Some of those characteristics for rifles in the old law included a pistol  grip, a folding stock and a bayonet mount. But the Feinstein bill would strip  what her office describes as "easy-to-remove" characteristics like the bayonet  mount from that list.

Feinstein's office says the bill would grandfather in weapons legally owned  before enactment and exempt more than 900 "specifically named weapons" for  hunting or sporting purposes.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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