Biden Calls on Congress to Ban ‘Assault Weapons’
in Wake of Colorado Shooting
National Review,
by
Zachary Evans
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
3/23/2021 2:47:10 PM
President Biden urged Congress to ban “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines following the Boulder, Colo., shooting in which ten people were killed.
“I urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act,” Biden said at a press conference. “We can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again.”
Biden also called on the Senate to pass a bill already approved by the House, which tightens background checks for potential gun buyers.
“The United States Senate, and I hope some of them are listening, should immediately pass the [bills] that close loopholes in the background check system,” Biden said.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 3/23/2021 2:48:09 PM (No. 732808)
I don't support NR with clicks.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/23/2021 2:52:36 PM (No. 732814)
How about ban LIBERALS? They're always the ones doing the mass murders. Name one "right wing conservative" who was a mass murderer...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
clipped wings 3/23/2021 2:56:20 PM (No. 732819)
The expected response. I just wondered when and who.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
aasilver 3/23/2021 3:02:25 PM (No. 732828)
What is an assault weapon?
Is it a semi-automatic rifle which requires you to pull the trigger to fire each bullet or is it an automatic rifle which keeps firing when you hold the trigger.
An automatic firing weapon is illegal.
A semi-automatic term applies all rifles with a multi bullet magazine and also applies to all modern hand guns including revolvers.
Libs want to ban all guns and rifles and throw around terms like assault weapons to confuse the public.
21 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 3/23/2021 3:04:04 PM (No. 732830)
Ban Joe Biden his mouth goes off too often and he's stupid.
31 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/23/2021 3:09:23 PM (No. 732834)
Assault weapons were banned in the 1930's.
17 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/23/2021 3:09:29 PM (No. 732835)
Maybe they should ban terrorists.
20 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 3/23/2021 3:09:54 PM (No. 732836)
Trump had it right - ban Muslims
29 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
CactusStar 3/23/2021 3:12:17 PM (No. 732838)
Meanwhile, The lame stream media is playing "hide the extremist".
20 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 3/23/2021 3:14:55 PM (No. 732842)
A hammer is an assault weapon
18 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
volksford 3/23/2021 3:16:01 PM (No. 732843)
Betcha the FBI had info on this guy
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
ann_n_GA 3/23/2021 3:19:41 PM (No. 732847)
Idiots. Do they think the crooks, thieves, drug runners, dealers, etc. are going to turn them in? Always amazed how stupid people are. It’s a power thing. That’s all it is.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Saryden 3/23/2021 3:26:31 PM (No. 732853)
No expensive propaganda-trial, no leniency, no long discussion... just swift execution and burial in a pig sty.
5 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Plex 3/23/2021 3:27:35 PM (No. 732854)
Colorado already has most of the restrictions proposed. So you can’t use an AR15. A nice 45 will do just as well.
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/23/2021 3:28:40 PM (No. 732855)
How about we just ban Muslim Azzles and BTW Joe How many kids have you got in cages now ?
Presser Thursday, I can't wait.
5 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Penney 3/23/2021 3:29:52 PM (No. 732858)
How does he have the gall to discuss this subject in spite of the Constitutional Rights secured for American citizens, especially when he & his political lefty gang have enacted policies which are making American citizens vulnerable, less safe every day?! Biden's open border policy is just one example of this fact. Oaths to the USA mean nothing to this country's radical lefty, 'ends justify the means,' pols. This Administration is nothing but bad news regarding the Rights of each individual and Liberty's victory & security celebrated throughout this country as a whole since the USA was founded.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 3/23/2021 3:31:13 PM (No. 732859)
OK Diaper Joe... Anything else? How about banning election fraud.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
TJ54 3/23/2021 3:40:31 PM (No. 732868)
A ban on violent Muslims is the way to go
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 3/23/2021 3:47:01 PM (No. 732877)
Ban assault weapons?
Like BLM?
Like Antifa?
Like all liberals?
Like radical lefties?
Like the Democrat party?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 3/23/2021 3:48:40 PM (No. 732879)
How about banning 'assault Muslims'?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 3/23/2021 4:03:43 PM (No. 732888)
‘Assault Weapons’
def. anything newer than a flintlock..
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Axeman 3/23/2021 4:11:35 PM (No. 732893)
First, ban tyranny. In fact, make authoritarianism a banishable offense.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Vesicant 3/23/2021 4:14:57 PM (No. 732895)
It doesn't matter, I had a boating accident a long time ago.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 3/23/2021 4:27:34 PM (No. 732897)
It should be against the law for any person to shoot another person, other than in self or other assault defense. This should include shooting with “scary looking” weapons, machine guns, missile launchers, semi auto, bolt action, single shot, shotguns, rifles, pistols, muzzle loaders, air guns, BB guns, sling shots, cross bows, compound, recurve or traditional bow and arrow, sling shots, blow guns, clubs, spears, knives, sticks and stones. Spitballs may be on the list also. On reflection, I guess it already is! Guess Biden, Schumer and the MSM didn’t know that.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 3/23/2021 4:28:23 PM (No. 732899)
Someone told me the expired “assault weapons” ban included guns that looked scary, but that guns with a traditional appearance, no pistol grip, for example, were not banned. Can someone confirm that, please? If so, dems probably won’t make that mistake again. I expect an expanded list of rifles might be on their list, including semi-automatic .22 caliber. I recall a mass shooting in Washington state a few years ago where the shooter used a .22 caliber semi-auto Ruger. I am pretty sure one of the guns used by the Aurora theater killer was a shotgun, not sure if it was a semi-automatic. Scary times. If the filibuster is repealed, the democrats are capable of anything.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/23/2021 4:37:14 PM (No. 732909)
OK who woke Biden up and gave him something to say?
Ban assault weapons? Was it an assault weapon that was used?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 3/23/2021 4:37:54 PM (No. 732911)
They banned them for a decade. NO crime statistics changed whatsoever in the direction of good.
So, after a decade, the law 'sunset' and was not reauthorized.
The results will be NO different if they do it again.
One measure of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bpl40 3/23/2021 4:38:59 PM (No. 732912)
Ban Muslims before guns.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 3/23/2021 4:41:53 PM (No. 732915)
#4, generally good comments....except that when you state "An automatic firing weapon is illegal."
you are incorrect.
Automatic weapons are legal, but federally controlled pretty tightly, and are illegal by state law in eight antigun states but are legal to own in the other 42 states, as long as the cumbersome federal laws are followed.
3 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Miceal 3/23/2021 4:43:27 PM (No. 732917)
Me and mine demand Quid Pro Joe the Fraud and his administration along with the rat congress shut up and do not attempt to screw with the Civil Rights of American citizens...
4 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 3/23/2021 4:51:10 PM (No. 732928)
#6, no, not banned. Taxed. In the 1930s they knew that they could not ban them, they just taxed them. Still NOT banned federally, but taxed, with a time consuming background check.
And finally in 1986 they did say that no NEW machine guns could be registered legally under the federal laws, but all existing guns were still legal.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
SALady 3/23/2021 5:10:50 PM (No. 732948)
Not-my-president Lyin' Joe biden won't rest until he starts Civil War 2.
Actually, that isn't true. He is too senile to really be responsible for anything he says or does. His handlers are telling him what to say, and they won't rest until they start Civil War 2.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
FormerDem 3/23/2021 5:34:05 PM (No. 732973)
As long as his own guards are also disarmed.
4 people like this.
Xiden would be of more value to America if he called for Phillip Morris and relaxed.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/23/2021 7:03:08 PM (No. 733059)
Boy, that mass shooting was convenient. Bet it sold more guns.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
jacksin5 3/23/2021 8:13:26 PM (No. 733112)
You can legally own a Gatling gun without a Federal permit. Although it has a rapid rate of fire, the method of fire is mechanical, not gas fired. Having said that, the fault lies with the gunner, not the gun.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
3XALADY 3/23/2021 8:15:26 PM (No. 733116)
Same song, second verse. They are so tiresome.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
4Justice 3/23/2021 10:05:15 PM (No. 733197)
Stupid and FALSE! The shooter only shot one shot at a time, with the exception of one guy who was sitting in his car. He could have done the same damage using a MUSKET and loading a wad and ball one at a time!!!
0 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
beca 3/23/2021 11:57:44 PM (No. 733279)
#11. They had him
On A list ...
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/24/2021 12:09:13 AM (No. 733287)
Realistically the Islamist supporting nut job in Boulder, CO, could easily have murdered just as many or more people with one of the two shotguns that Biden has claimed that he owns. Whose to say if that perpetrator could not have got his hands on a rifle that he would not have exploded an improvised explosive device (IED) inside that store when it was loaded with innocent people, or go into the store carrying a large knife and stabbing unsuspecting people to death as he walked through the aisles of the store.
It has been known for a longtime that the most dangerous Islamist terrorists in the USA in the future will be people who were admitted to the USA as children brought to the USA by their parents as refugees from Islamic lands that are experiencing endless wars. The perpetrator fraudulently blaming Trump and his supporters for causing him to commit mass murder should be a non-starter by all Americans, instead unfortunately we see Biden attempting to obtain a political advantage from the incident to pass Democrat gun control bills that intending criminals and terrorists will never comply with, and that will end up simply harassing law abiding Americans and voiding 2nd Amendment rights.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
DVC 3/24/2021 2:32:08 AM (No. 733361)
How about we just secede from the Union? I'm totally sick of these NE and Left Coast pukes wrecking the country.
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