U.S.
Senator says millions of Americans are 'arming against the government',
And many Congressional Democrats want to force us to use small
magazines..
United States Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) has
never seen a proposed new infringement on that which shall not be
infringed that he hasn't liked, so it should come as no surprise that he
is enthusiastically on board with a pair of bills recently introduced
in Congress that would impose a five-year prison term for acquiring an
11-round magazine. S.407/H.R. 752, the "Large Capacity Ammunition
Feeding Device Act of 2015," introduced by Senator Robert Menendez
(D-NJ) and Representative Elizabeth Etsy (D-CT) respectively, would even
ban the practice of attaching two of the "acceptable" capacity
magazines together:
(A) means a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip,
helical feeding device, or similar device,including any such device
joined or coupled with another in any manner, that has an overall
capacity of, or that can be readily restored, changed, or converted to
accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition . . .
So attaching two 10-round magazines together
with a magazine coupler, or even with duct tape, would be a crime worth
five years of the "offender's" life.
Murphy attempted to justify such a ban on an Army veteran's alleged plot to attack Congress with a rifle, according to The Hill:
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday touted
the bill, which would ban magazines of more than 10 rounds, hours after
reports circulated that police had foiled a mass shooting plot aimed at
Congress.
“Think of the damage that someone could do in the U.S. Capitol with 30 rounds,” he said at a briefing.
Murphy, it seems, would imprison us for having
11-round magazines because he personally sees such magazines as a threat
to his hide. At least, though, he managed to refrain from the ludicrous
hysteria of Brady Campaign president Dan Gross, who tried to use an alleged poisoning plot against Speaker John Boehner as justification for more onerous gun laws.
The alleged plot to attack Congress apparently
had Murphy thinking quite a lot about the danger to him and his cronies
posed by a well-armed citizenry, prompting him to make this remarkable
claim:
He said those who wanted high-capacity magazines were more interested in “arming against the government."
All the scores of millions of us? Oddly, Murphy
did not bother to address some rather glaring exemptions to the ban--the
usual, military, law enforcement, and retired law enforcement. So is
there some need for these people to be "arming against the government"?
Murphy is frightened of a well armed American
citizenry. This is very good news. Those who would presume to govern a
free people should be mortally afraid of the wrath of the people whose
rights they threaten.
The bills, between them, have 125 sponsors and
co-sponsors. Clearly, the American people must have access to 125-round
magazines.
http://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-senator-says-millions-of-americans-are-arming-against-the-government
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