California Congresswoman Speier Calls on ATF to Ban ‘Assault Weapons’ Imports…A Taste of Things to Come?

By Robert Farago

In June of last year, the NRA introduced a bill to define the term “sporting purposes.” As the presser for the doomed bill declared, “many federal laws that regulate the importation, possession and transfer of firearms measure the lawful utility of firearms based on their usefulness for so-called ‘sporting purposes.’ BATFE and anti-gun administrations have exploited the lack of a clear definition of ‘sporting purposes’ to bypass Congress and impose gun control through executive fiat.” In other words, it’s a gun control loophole! One that California Rep. Jackie Speier wants to exploit . . .

The legislation proposed by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) calls for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to act on its power to bar the import of assault weapons that “are not suitable or readily adaptable for sporting purposes.”

The legislation, which would not affect gun production in the U.S., would include the imported Serbian AK-47 that was used to kill three and wound 14 others in Hesston, Kansas on Feb. 25, Speier said in a Facebook post on the bill.

“Current law allows the ATF to ban the importation of these …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns