ICYMI: Anti-Trump Dianne Feinstein Introduces Bill to Ban Assault Weapons (Details)
Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein was one of the major players behind the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco, having planned the abomination America saw play out on the small screen for months.
Feinstein is back in the news today, quietly introducing an assault weapons ban bill.
Maybe she thought we wouldn’t catch it?
Well, she was wrong.
From Free Beacon:
Democrats and Republicans introduced dueling gun proposals this week in the Senate with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) pushing a new gun-ban proposal and Sen. John Cornyn (R., Tex.) attempting to expand gun-carry protections across the country.
Feinstein’s bill, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, would ban the sale, manufacture, transfer, and importation of certain semiautomatic firearms. The text of the bill has not yet been released, but Feinstein’s office said it would ban any firearm capable of accepting a detachable magazine and either a “pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock.” Firearms fitting the description would become illegal to sell if the bill was passed but those already legally owned would remain legal but become subject to additional regulations. Transfers of so-called high capacity magazines would also be banned under the proposal, though the senator’s office didn’t specify what would constitute a “high capacity.”
“Last year we saw tens of thousands of students nationwide take to the streets to demand action to stop mass shootings and stem the epidemic of gun violence that plagues our communities,” Feinstein said in a statement. “Our youngest generation has grown up with active-shooter drills, hiding under their desks—and now they’re saying enough is enough. Americans across the nation are asking Congress to reinstate the federal ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. If we’re going to put a stop to mass shootings and protect our children, we need to get these weapons of war off our streets.”
Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell of California might just run for president in 2020.
The thing about Swalwell is that he’s a typical progressive.
He wants guns confiscated by any means.
He even suggested nuking Americans who fight back.
From Daily Wire:
Swalwell made the comment in response to a May news article on his radical plan that was widely recirculated on Twitter on Friday in which he called for a $15 billion government program to confiscate millions of guns from Americans.
https://twitter.com/Rambobiggs/status/1063524877733371905?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1063524877733371905&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F38451%2Fdemocrat-calls-gun-confiscation-suggests-nuking-ryan-saavedra
And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes. Too many of them. But they’re legit. I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities.
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 16, 2018
More from Swalwell, who admitted to conservative Dana Loesch he wants to ban guns:
She’s not lying. We should ban assault weapons by buying them back or restricting them to ranges/clubs. #EnoughIsEnough https://t.co/XbRpOvXlF3
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 16, 2018
Fair question. Rifles. They’re more powerful and cause more carnage when used with a pistol-grip. See @ScottPelley @60Minutes piece. To reduce semi-auto pistol deaths I’d have universal background checks and mandatory reporting on mental health.
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 16, 2018
Reactions:
"If you don't turn over your guns, we'll nuke you" is definitely a reasonable argument to make. https://t.co/4YFDxi1CPf
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) November 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/dangainor/status/1063542850489597953?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1063542850489597953&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F38451%2Fdemocrat-calls-gun-confiscation-suggests-nuking-ryan-saavedra
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1063539224652201985?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1063539224652201985&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F38451%2Fdemocrat-calls-gun-confiscation-suggests-nuking-ryan-saavedra
It must not be against @Twitter TOS to casually insinuate that it’s better to give up our guns than die in a thermo-nuclear blast at the hands of the U.S. gov’t.
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¯_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/3Zo1m93ikO
— Conservative Review (@CR) November 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1063548921656549380?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1063548921656549380&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F38451%2Fdemocrat-calls-gun-confiscation-suggests-nuking-ryan-saavedra
I'm stunned there were enough sheep to vote so this guy ended up with a "Rep" in front of his name. The U.S. government is now going to nuke…….get this……..its own people. https://t.co/S0NuyMZD2r
— patmiletich (@patmiletich) November 16, 2018
Personally, I have a bigger problem with an elected official blithely talking about nuking his fellow Americans than my neighbor owning an AR-15. But YMMV. https://t.co/yfiRAeuCn3
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) November 16, 2018
You assume that members of our combined forces would follow unconstitutional orders, and take up arms against citizens of the United States. Short war indeed. .cc @DLoesch @KyleKashuv
— Matthew Kolken (@mkolken) November 16, 2018
AR-15s are so dangerous that we must nuke gun owners to confiscate them
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) November 16, 2018
The 2020 Democrat presidential field is likely to be as crowded as the GOP’s in 2016.
Possible contenders include:
Former Vice President Joe Biden. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, the only cabinet-level official to ever be held in contempt of Congress.
Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Fame-seeking lawyer Michael Avenatti.
Senators Kamala Harris (CA), Cory Booker (NJ), and Elizabeth Warren (MA).
Sens. Bernie Sanders (VT) and Amy Klobuchar (MN).
Former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg, too.
Why not Swalwell?
Add Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., to what is expected to be a crowded field lining up to run against President Donald Trump in 2020, according to Politico.
“He’s definitely running,” a source told Politico, because Rep. Swalwell has not officially announced his intentions to campaign for president.
65 million people voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Texas Senate loser Beto O’Rourke just broke every single one of their hearts.
"I will not be a candidate for president in 2020,” Beto O'Rourke tells @GarrettHaake.
“That’s I think as definitive as those sentences get.” https://t.co/aLDxTCMo4q pic.twitter.com/jPdiTZHOiS
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 5, 2018
Beto has been caught lying about his mother being a “lifelong Republican” and saying he did not flee the scene of a hit and run accident (he actually did).
An undercover video reveals Beto’s team is using campaign funds to aid the migrant caravan making its way through Mexico to the United States.