Eric Holder backing away from an assault weapons ban?

[fatboy_ace]

I think this is a step in the right direction, although I know the fight is far from over.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/191037/page/1

You can view the letter here.
letter to Attorney General Eric Holder

 

[jbonnette]

"...White House officials instructed the attorney general to tone down any further talk about assault weapons in order not to complicate the president's legislative agenda on Capitol Hill..."

They're smart enough to not fight more than one battle at a time... AWB is just on the backburner for the moment.

 

[dantheman]

Look for new taxes and registration/licensing requirements .

 

[altimar]

They *say* they're not going to ban them *now*. Am I missing something? Do politicians always tell the truth about guns while they lie about everything else?

 

[CantGetRight]

Isn't that the truth...I don't know any other job that it's the norm to lie...and it seem as though everyone is fine with it.

FWIW...My cousin works for the Attorney Generals Office here...he tells me to buy ammo...as much as you can, as soon as you can, because that's what they are going to go after, not the weapons themselves.

 

[Swampy]

Isn't that the truth...I don't know any other job that it's the norm to lie...and it seem as though everyone is fine with it.

FWIW...My cousin works for the Attorney Generals Office here...he tells me to buy ammo...as much as you can, as soon as you can, because that's what they are going to go after, not the weapons themselves.

I am running out of tin foil...

 

[Praesul Presul]

"...White House officials instructed the attorney general to tone down any further talk about assault weapons in order not to complicate the president's legislative agenda on Capitol Hill..."

They're smart enough to not fight more than one battle at a time... AWB is just on the backburner for the moment.

....which is why I bad-mouth everything he tries in legislature, which isn't a real stretch because it is always a stupid idea thus far. Keeping Robert Gates and Petraeus were the only intelligent things he has done thus far.

 

[nola_]

they can back away from the gun bans but make ammo the thing to go after.

no ammo = no shooting your guns

 

[MRBULLRED]

It seems these bans work so well... Like when they banned drugs many years ago.. It kept them off the street....

 

[goodburbon]

alcohol was banned for a while IIRC, but that was a conservative movement.

 

[Storm52]

As much as 90 percent of the assault weapons and other guns used by Mexican drug cartels are coming from the United States, fueling drug-related violence that is believed to have killed more than 7,000 people since January 2008, according to estimates by Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials

I wonder how Mexico officials and for that matter US Law Enforcement would know...unless they track it without interference....

 

[nola_]

As much as 90 percent of the assault weapons and other guns used by Mexican drug cartels are coming from the United States, fueling drug-related violence that is believed to have killed more than 7,000 people since January 2008, according to estimates by Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials

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media propagand to get the anti-gun crowd excited into a frenzy