Posted July 16, 2019 8:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

Gillibrand’s plan would ban many semi-auto firearms and their magazines, expand background checks, and institute “red flag” laws among other proposals. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
New York U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, trailing in the polls among Democrats running in a 2020 Presidential nomination bid, debuted her sweeping anti-gun plan this month.
Polling near the bottom of the pack of more than 20 Dems looking to make a move on the White House next year, the lawmaker who took over Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat in 2009 recently showcased her gun control platform. In it, Gillibrand promised a mix of executive actions and a legislative push to get tough on guns.
“As president, I’ll issue an executive order directing the Department of Justice to prosecute gun trafficking through conspiracy charges,” she said, before expanding her advocacy for universal background checks for all gun sales and transfers as well as a ban on many semi-auto firearms and their magazines, saying, “Weapons of war don’t belong on our streets.”
Gillibrand also stood behind a move to repeal legal protections adopted by Congress in 2005 to shield the firearms industry against frivolous lawsuits as well as the Tiahrt Amendment, which maintains controls on firearms trace data. Police lobby groups in

Source: Guns.com

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