Posted August 15, 2019 11:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

On Wednesday, I wrote a story about how most of the Democrats in the House have signed on as co-sponsors for the latest “assault weapon” ban. While the bill referred to in the original story wasn’t specified, it appears the bill in question is H.R. 1296, the Assault Weapon Ban of 2019.

Since the Democrats are so close to getting this passed in the House, and since a Senate version already has 30 co-sponsors and we’re hearing rumblings from Republicans about supporting gun control, I figured it would be smart to take a quick look at what’s in the bill and what it would mean should it pass.

In short, though, as Washington Free Beacon‘s Stephen Gutowski said on Twitter, it’s basically the Assault Weapon Ban of 1994 all over again, but rather than a weapon getting two “evil features” and still being legal, it now would only get one.

In particular, here’s how the law defines a “semiautomatic assault rifle.”

“(36) The term ‘semiautomatic assault weapon’ means any of the following, regardless of country of manufacture or caliber of ammunition accepted:

“(A) A semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any one of the following:

“(i) …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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