Special permits to buy ammo. Special licenses to buy rifles. If they succeed, they will chip away until the 27 words of the 2A are meaningless. They lied when they took the oath to defend the Constitution. Their goal is to destroy the Constitution.
WASHINGTON – Gun rights advocates may have, in effect, driven Rep. Chris Jacobs out of Congress – but they’re not stopping him from devoting his remaining months in office to searching for a compromise that would make it harder to acquire semiautomatic weapons that critics call assault weapons.
On Monday, Jacobs, an Orchard Park Republican, plans to introduce a bill called the Federal Assault Weapons Licensing Act. Acknowledging that there’s virtually no way the legislation could pass in the current Congress, Jacobs said he is offering it up as food for thought for the future – as a way to control such semiautomatic weapons in a nation that refuses to ban them.
“My hope is that I’m putting forth a compromise idea that would be very substantive and make a big beneficial impact in trying to significantly curtail what we don’t want to see again, what we saw here in Buffalo,” said Jacobs, referring to the May 14 mass shooting at a Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue that claimed 10 lives.
By Jerry Zremski