Rep. Carolyn Maloney Wants To Ban ‘Machine Gun Magazines’

By Tom Knighton

I love a good comedy. There’s something therapeutic about laughing. Unless, of course, what’s causing you to laugh is someone who has both the power and desire to take away your constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.

At that point, the laughing isn’t nearly as enjoyable, though still warranted.

After all, it’s amusing how people who don’t even know the nomenclature on firearms are such experts on what those guns can do and how deadly they are (emphasis mine).

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D., N.Y.) called for a ban on “machine gun magazines” during a press conference Tuesday.

“If guns made this country safer, we would be the safest country on earth, but we are far from it,” Maloney told reporters outside of the U.S. Capitol Building.

The congresswoman, who represents New Yorkers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, called for a multi-pronged approach to gun control in the wake of the Feb. 14 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

“We need to really act in a number of ways. We need to pass an assault weapon ban, we need to ban the massacre machine gun magazines, and we need comprehensive background checks,” she continued. “These are all bills and efforts that Democrats have …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms