Quoted: I'm sure this has been asked before but I just want to clarify. I think there are two bills right now Feinstein has sponsored to extend the ban. If they go into session next week and start working towards passing one of her bills to extend the AWB, and during which time the ban sunsets on the 14th, is all the work and progress they may have made dropped in its tracks as there would be no AWB to extend or is it written in such a way to where the bill could be passed through anyway? Hope that makes sense.
Also with the current ban did the rifles have to be in preban configuration at any time before September 14 1994, or did they have be setting in preban configuration the moment the law went into effect?
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Ok, here's how it works:
They have untill end-of-session to pass an extension...
End of session is, IIRC, right around the sunset...
Then Congress takes a break so everyone can campaign.
If the bill is not passed by then, they have to wait untill Febuary, as the November-January session of Congress in an election year is a 'lame duck' session -> nothing gets done.
Now, at present, there ARE AWB renewal bills in committee in both houses. About 6 of them.
However, the chairmen of these committees
are quite anti-ban, and can hold up all these bills indefinately.
While the votes WERE there in the Senate, it was a 2 vote margin, and there is no assurance that the votes ARE still there.
It is a documented fact that the votes
ARE NOT THERE in the House.
This means
THE BAN IS DEAD - there are no gun bills to ammend it to, no chances for it to come up without clearing committee, and even fi it were ammended, no chance that anything with an AWB re-auth would clear the House.
It's game over, and I'll bet anyone here a case of .223 that the ban will sunset without being replaced, extended, or enhanced.
Any takers?