(November 14, 2017 at 3:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: What is going on??? Its seriously never been this bad before... ever.
It really is not that hard to understand if you know a little recent history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_As...eapons_Ban
Quote:The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB)—officially, the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act—is a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law that included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms it defined as assault weapons, as well as certain ammunition magazines it defined as "large capacity".
The ten-year ban was passed by the U.S. Congress on September 13, 1994, following a close 52-48 vote in the Senate, and signed into law by then President Bill Clinton the same day. The ban only applied to weapons manufactured after the date of the ban's enactment, and it expired on September 13, 2004, in accordance with its sunset provision.
Several constitutional challenges were filed against provisions of the ban, but all were rejected by reviewing courts. There were multiple attempts to renew the ban, but none succeeded.
Tax cuts for the rich never have "sunset provisions." Funny how that works, huh?
