Hastert urged to push assault weapons ban

[nralife]

Hastert urged to push assault weapons ban
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 20, 2004 | Cheryl V. Jackson


http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gun20.html


About 25 Chicago area activists, including mothers and fathers who've lost children to gun violence, picketed in front of U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's Batavia office Saturday to urge extension of the federal assault weapons ban.

The 10-year ban is set to expire in September. President Bush has indicated he would sign a bill extending the ban, but it has been slow to move through Congress, activists said.

"We're trying to light a fire under the guy. We're asking Speaker Hastert to put it on the floor," said Steve Young of Skokie whose 19-year-old son was killed with a semi-automatic handgun in 1996.

 

[Hard Ball]

President Bush has said that hw "would "consider signing a new AW ban bill" if congress approves one. Since it is extremely unlikely that the House would pass such a bill the AW ban extension is unlikely.

 

[K80Geoff]

The majority in the house is razor thin, the Senate will vote for the renewal. All we need is a couple more Republican reps to get arrested for DWI or get caught taking baksheesh and we are sunk.

I WANT my bayonet lug and flash suppressor

 

[UnforgivenII]

I want my collaspable stock too!!!!!!! AND Hi Caps that don't break the bank!!!!

 

[MicroBalrog]

About 25 Chicago area activists, including mothers and fathers who've lost children to gun violence, picketed in front of U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's Batavia office Saturday to urge extension of the federal assault weapons ban.

Note: those guys can't get more than 25 people to walk for their cause in Chicago . Pathetic.

 

[Jamie Young]

A message to Republicans from a Conservative Democrat.


I'll pull the Libertarian lever if you pass this bill.

 

[Don Gwinn]

They must not have contacted the CAPS section of Chicago PD.

When they wanted to protest a gun shop in a suburb, they planned to bus school kids in for the day and give them school credit for protesting. They were also going to give criminals who'd been sentenced to "community service" credit for their time spent protesting as "community service."

I'll give Hastert a phone call.

 

[Halcon]

Yeah, he should "push the ban" . . . right into the refuse pile of failed ideas.