Dianne DeGette (D, CO) to Introduce Magazine Ban in the House

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/high-capacity-magazines-bill_n_2376838.html

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats will introduce legislation to ban the production of high-capacity magazines on the first day of the next congressional session, the office of Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), one of the lawmakers sponsoring the bill, told The Huffington Post.

The Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act will mirror a failed bill introduced during the 112th Congress. Its authors hope that in the wake of the shooting deaths of 20 first grade students in Newtown, Conn., there will be heightened political urgency to act when it is reintroduced on Jan. 3.
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I find the following quote from DeGette extremely telling:

"I'm not so naïve as to think that we can pass some law that will stop a deranged person from taking a gun and shooting people," DeGette told The Huffington Post two weeks ago. "What I am interested in is making it as difficult as possible for that deranged person to shoot as many people as possible."
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I love how she openly admits that her proposal won't actually solve anything.

If you haven't already, it's time to warm up your word processing software, folks.
 
I will be sending emails later today when I get back home.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't on THR so I could cuss more...
 
Coloradans should be so proud, what with Hickenlooper and all.

More political grandstanding to get her name in the media and make it look like she's "doing something". It has a snowball's chance in Hell.
 
Members of this forum (in her district) should call her office and inform her she will be facing a primary fight. Also contact the Colorado Democrat party and inform them she does not represent your interest and you intend to back challengers in the primary.
 
Gotta love the name; The Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act.

The anti's really Really REALLY go out of their way to not use the term magazine. Supposed it would admit some sort of ignorance for their inferior semantics for all these years.
 
IMO, this is the one to worry about. They are looking for the most they can get past the House, and this is it. I don't know if it can pass, but it probably depend on which side can make the most noise and flash the most cash. We need to keep an eye on it, and kill it in committee if at all possible.
 
I agree that it's the one to watch, I just don't see this going anywhere though. The political will is nill right now. Other than Obama trying to revive it a bit this morning on Meet the Press, the country is now focused on fiscal cliff issues. The most likely scenario for passage would be if they split up the long guns and hand guns and limited long guns to no more than 10 rounds, or if they put a cap on 20 rounds for all guns. The public's handgun approval rating north of 70% puts a damper on any kind of proposed restrictions on standard 15 round magazines like you'd find in a 9mm.
 
She's not a senator, she's a house rep. While this bill is much less aggressive than Feinstein's, it's being introduced in a Republican controlled house. Beohner and Cantor may not even let it hit the floor for a vote.

Keep pressure on the congresscritters to kill this crap.
 
Feinstein's bill asks for everything short of outright door-to-door confiscation.

I suspect this bill will be floated as "the compromise."

I'm thoroughly dismayed at the notion that prohibiting future generations from exercising a civil right is considered to be an acceptable compromise by some people.
 
Gotta love the name; The Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act.

The anti's really Really REALLY go out of their way to not use the term magazine.
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They're not just going after "magazines." The plan also includes belts, links, and feed strips. Feed strips! (Such as those used in the 1909 Benet-Mercie Machine Rifle.)

Since one link only holds two rounds at the most, I guess if you link up 10 rounds it's OK, but if you link up 11 or more it's verboten? Ridiculous! These people are nitwits.
 
They're not just going after "magazines." The plan also includes belts, links, and feed strips. Feed strips! (Such as those used in the 1909 Benet-Mercie Machine Rifle.)

Since one link only holds two rounds at the most, I guess if you link up 10 rounds it's OK, but if you link up 11 or more it's verboten? Ridiculous! These people are nitwits.
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One wonders how they intend to stamp a fifteen-word legal disclaimer and serial number on ammunition links.

The mind positively boggles.
 
DeGette represents the Peoples Republic of Denver, so there is 0 chance of her not being re-elected. I did contact my Representative (Scott Tipton) to urge him to scuttle any more gun control schemes. I will also contact Colorado Senators Benett and Udall, but they are spineless back benchers who will do EXACTLY as Chuck Schumer tells them. Hard days ahead for us.
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DeGette represents the Peoples Republic of Denver, so there is 0 chance of her not being re-elected.
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Pretty much. I think she garnered 74% of the vote in her district. Even a significant loss of support is not going to be enough to unseat her.

I will also contact Colorado Senators Benett and Udall, but they are spineless back benchers who will do EXACTLY as Chuck Schumer tells them.
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It's conceivable that Bennett can be brought around. Enough letters/calls/emails reminding him that a lot of pro gun independents and Democrats got him in (and can get him out) may make him see the light. He didn't win by much last time, and outside of Denver or Boulder, Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents in this state are not the same group as left coast liberals. His victory was not so much a win by him, but a loss by Ken Buck for running a crappy campaign and not wiping of the mud that was slung on him. He won by less than 30,000 votes out of 1.7 million.

Udall is probably lost cause. He prides himself as a bipartisan critter, but he's a Boulder liberal and still votes like a "safe district" house rep. It may cost him, but it's unlikely that he'll be swayed. He is up for a race in 2014, though, so we should keep the pressure on. It never hurts to remind of the losses in 1996 as a direct result of gun control during a period that was less pro-gun and much more confident in government than we are today.
 
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People like DeGette get a lot of ink because they "care". However, the Democrats are a minority in the House, and the Speaker and Majority leaders pretty much control the agenda. She'll be lucky to get a sub-committee, or committee hearing before the end of the current term.
 
JUSTIN - "Feinstein's bill asks for everything short of outright door-to-door confiscation."
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Confiscation is next on the list of that monstrous ghoul's plans, just as it is with all her comrades in D.C.

L.W.
 
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I think Colorado is still pretty "purple".
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It is. The influx of Californians and hispanics has tipped the balance in recent elections, but it's not hopeless yet. The state-wide races have been fairly close for a long, long time. Hickenlooper didn't win by a landslide when you consider that the race was over before it started thanks to Maes being an arrogant, selfish prick who wouldn't bow out even when he knew he had ZERO chance of winning. Hick got 51.01%. If Maes had gone away, it would have been a coin toss between Tancredo and Hickenlooper, as quite a few conservatives didn't bother to vote, knowing that neither Tancredo or Maes could win, since they were splitting the vote.
 
This might just be a play by the Democrats by purposefully submitting this into the Republican controlled house so that its loss can help them paint the conservatives as uncaring in regards to the children murdered in Newtown. They might well be expecting this to fail and are hoping to use the Republican efforts and votes in 2014 campaign ads.
 
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