The lamestream media told you:
Sixty-five House Democrats, led by Mike Ross (D-Ark.), have sent a letter to attorney general Eric Holder opposing his stated position of seeking to renew the Bill Clinton ban on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms, parts and magazines. The group said, in part, they would “actively oppose any effort to reinstate the 1994 ban, or to pass any similar law.” Congress let the law expire in 2004. See the letter and signatories: http://tinyurl.com/cbpfsz
The group denounced the attorney general’s proposal to renew the ban, urging him, “to abandon any effort to reinstate the assault-weapons ban and to focus instead on effective law enforcement strategies to enforce the nation’s current laws against violent criminals and drug traffickers.”
[Note that every step and person involved in a gun-smuggling process is extremely illegal under current law, but largely unenforced.]
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Recognizing that open revolt from within his own party could lead to bloody floor battles in Congress over new gun bans, president Barack Obama has chosen to bypass the U.S. House of Representatives and the normal legislative process in his quest for new gun infringements, promised during his campaign and recently promoted by his staff and members of his party, such as Pa. governor Ed Rendell, and House speaker Nancy Pelosi. The first salvo is scheduled to come in the form of an international treaty, cutting 65 rebellious Democrats completely out of the process.
It should be noted that the so-called assault-weapon ban, actually named the Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, did not actually ban anything. Countless millions of affected firearms, magazines and parts could be bought, sold, owned, traded and used by the public. What was banned by Mr. Clinton was new manufacture of any products on the list for consumers, causing prices to skyrocket, but leaving availability virtually untouched.
“News” reports never mention this, mainly, because they have no idea that this is the case. They believe what they read in their own reports, instead of getting facts. Reporters exhibit stunned disbelief when told the ban didn’t ban anything.
When the expiration date Mr. Clinton put into the law took effect, police agencies and “news” outlets nationwide noted, with some embarrassment but no corrections to ten years of false scary stories, that no changes in crime rates occurred. The New York Times said the expiration, “has not caused any noticeable increase in gun crime in the past seven months,” and that the government-assaulted private firearms “were never used in many gun crimes.” http://tinyurl.com/bbfupx (See my report on this, item #1 http://www.gunlaws.com/Page9Folder/PageNine-60.htm)
That has changed recently, as politicians, foreign officials, and “news” people have again begun a false furor over various normal one-shot-at-a-time household firearms the public owns. Especially pointing to the U.S.-led war on some drugs and its effect on black market Mexican drug makers and exporters, they are blaming American gun owners for the government’s mess. News reports on this are so distorted its hard to know where to begin in straightening them out.
All the true military-only combat weaponry and ordnance the drug producers are using is omitted from ban plans, because the public doesn’t own any, and those supplies and suppliers will remain unaffected. The scary label used to vilify the public’s arms, “assault weapons,” is a misnomer and obvious distortion, because assault is a type of behavior, not a type of hardware.
If, as officials and their media allies claim, a high percentage of foreign drug-gang firearms are traced to U.S. stores, there should of course be massive arrests of the illegal buyers, straw purchasers, go-betweens, middlemen, cash bag men, smugglers and others repeatedly identified by thousands of NICS checks. No arrests have been announced even after years of claimed abuses, casting doubt on all government drug-related reports, as usual. U.S. cocaine market prices are reportedly stable.
