Assault weapons ban banned

By Mustang Bobby

This is, to say the least, not a good thing.

After a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday, a frustrated Feinstein said she learned that the bill she sponsored — which bans 157 different models of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines — wouldn’t be part of a Democratic gun bill to be offered on the Senate floor. Instead, it can be offered as an amendment. But its exclusion from the package makes what was already an uphill battle an almost certain defeat.

This is probably based on the theory that the NRA is too big to fail and that something like Newtown will never happen again anyway. Such is what passes for common sense conventional wisdom.

(Cross-posted at Bark Bark Woof Woof.)