Feinstein's Assault Weapons Research Paper
Should Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban be passed?
-Andrew J. Mach
S.150, Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban was proposed in response to the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut where a shooter went on a rampage killing several students and teachers with a high powered, high capacity riffle. Lawmakers want to stop the manufacturing of high capacity weapons which will make the repeating of tragedies like the one seen in Newtown that much harder. Currently there is no federal law which restricts the round capacity of a weapon. However with gun laws so diverse around the nation it is a good possibility that states have their own round capacity laws for firearms. Several states has had and has Assault Weapons Bans in place, but each differing in what guns qualify as an assault rifle. There was also one a federal assault weapons ban which was enacted in 1994 and expired in 2004. The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was criticized for being too easy to get around thus it was not reinstated (“Assault”). The main issue for this bill is the US Constitution’s Second Amendment, which gives the American public the right to bear arms. It is such a problem because Feinstein’s Assault Weapons …show more content…
Their pursuit to get it shot down was unwavering, even when large supporters of the legislation like Mayors Against Illegal Guns gave up on it the National Riffle Association kept attacking it with countless web posts on their website. It is to the point that people should no longer going say stop beating a dead horse but instead start to say stop beating on a gun bill like the National Riffle Association. But with Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban shot down, something which might not have very well have happened if the National Riffle Association didn’t exists, they did accomplished what they wanted so there is something to be said about their tactics
-Andrew J. Mach
S.150, Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban was proposed in response to the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut where a shooter went on a rampage killing several students and teachers with a high powered, high capacity riffle. Lawmakers want to stop the manufacturing of high capacity weapons which will make the repeating of tragedies like the one seen in Newtown that much harder. Currently there is no federal law which restricts the round capacity of a weapon. However with gun laws so diverse around the nation it is a good possibility that states have their own round capacity laws for firearms. Several states has had and has Assault Weapons Bans in place, but each differing in what guns qualify as an assault rifle. There was also one a federal assault weapons ban which was enacted in 1994 and expired in 2004. The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was criticized for being too easy to get around thus it was not reinstated (“Assault”). The main issue for this bill is the US Constitution’s Second Amendment, which gives the American public the right to bear arms. It is such a problem because Feinstein’s Assault Weapons …show more content…
Their pursuit to get it shot down was unwavering, even when large supporters of the legislation like Mayors Against Illegal Guns gave up on it the National Riffle Association kept attacking it with countless web posts on their website. It is to the point that people should no longer going say stop beating a dead horse but instead start to say stop beating on a gun bill like the National Riffle Association. But with Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban shot down, something which might not have very well have happened if the National Riffle Association didn’t exists, they did accomplished what they wanted so there is something to be said about their tactics