Feinstein says vets cant have guns. Meanwhile in Switzerland...

[delta9]

At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) opposed an amendment to her Assault Weapons Ban legislation that would allow military veterans to continue to buy the firearms that would be banned. Feinstein says a veteran may be mentally ill and should be prevented from purchasing firearms.

In Switzerland, when soldiers are done with military or reserves and the time comes to surrender their equipment, they have the option of buying back their service weapons. Here's how it works: have a good shooting score for the last three years before the end of your time in the reserve; have a good reason to want your weapon (sporting purposes is acceptable); be in possession of a weapon's purchase permit. And guess what? They only charge you $100 for the rifle (Sig SG550)or $30 for the pistol (Sig P220)

[coverme2]

VOTE....HER....OUT!!!!

[desertexplore]

VOTE....HER....OUT!!!!

Sooner the better.

[johncmng]

The why Mrs Fienstein do we send our troops back for a second tour if they are sooooo unstable?

[mabilis_matulis]

That is messed up..

[readysetgo]

Most of these politicians don't even make sense when they're speaking. You can just barely attribute a coherent thought here...

SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN: If I understand this, this adds an exemption of retired military. As I understand our bill, no issue has arose in this regard during the 10 years the expired ban was in effect and what we did in the other bill was exempt possession by the United States or a department or agency of the United States. So that included active military.*

The problem with expanding this is that, you know, with the advent of PTSD, which I think is a new phenomenon as a product of the Iraq War, it’s not clear how the seller or transferrer of a firearm covered by this bill would verify that an individual was a member, or a veteran, and that there was no impairment of that individual with respect to having a weapon like this.*

So, you know, I would be happy to sit down with you again and see if we could work something out but I think we have to-- if you’re going to do this, find a way that veterans who are incapacitated for one reason or another mentally don’t have access to this kind of weapon.

[Beatone]

VOTE....HER....OUT!!!!

She'll die from old age before that happens.

[MattyB]

A single Benjamin for a 550???? OMG Id reup a few times for that. Hell, you are guaranteed to never see combat and you get to bring home two VERY nice weapons for less than the price of a full tank of gas over there.

We cant trust our soldiers here though, there all fkn crazy....

[GW]

She thinks PTSD is a recent phenomenon from the Iraq war?? Our vets might have ptsd so we shouldn't let any of them have these firearms?
This just shows how out of touch our would be masters are. She is a fool.

[LeadSlinger585]

Wow. I was Switzerland was an easy place to consider moving to.

In Switzerland, when soldiers are done with military or reserves and the time comes to surrender their equipment, they have the option of buying back their service weapons. Here's how it works: have a good shooting score for the last three years before the end of your time in the reserve; have a good reason to want your weapon (sporting purposes is acceptable); be in possession of a weapon's purchase permit. And guess what? They only charge you $100 for the rifle (Sig SG550)or $30 for the pistol (Sig P220)

I'm curious how easy it is to get ammo there. I've heard in Isreal it's somewhat easy to get a firearm, but limited to 50 rounds of ammo a year (word of mouth - no sources)

[Freq18Hz]

I wish DiFi would shut her nasty looking trap, and spend all her concerned efforts about veterans on getting them the proper medical and mental health care they deserve instead of her endless politicking.

Oh, I guess she forgot that she happens to be one of the ****heads that voted for our boys to go in there in the first place!

-Freq

[BKinzey]

At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) opposed an amendment to her Assault Weapons Ban legislation that would allow military veterans to continue to buy the firearms that would be banned. Feinstein says a veteran may be mentally ill and should be prevented from purchasing firearms.

She didn't say that. That's a misquote.

She expressed a concern that giving vets an exclusion to her bill might include those with PTSD. I don't like her bill at all and want none of it passed.

[NOTABIKER]

She'll die from old age before that happens.

YEP CA voters [over 50 %] just cant get enough liberal love.

[GillaFunk]

Between Barry unable to get congress to pass a budget that keeps the troops paid, recently cutting the tuition assistance program to soldiers and Marines, and now saying troops can't own guns when they return from playing in the sandbox....ON TOP of already having troubles finding post enlistment jobs.....

Keep pissing off the troops. See how that works for ya.

[SilverTauron]

Between Barry unable to get congress to pass a budget that keeps the troops paid, recently cutting the tuition assistance program to soldiers and Marines, and now saying troops can't own guns when they return from playing in the sandbox....ON TOP of already having troubles finding post enlistment jobs.....

Keep pissing off the troops. See how that works for ya.

The troops collectively never liked or voted for him anyway, so giving them a hard time is a politically safe manouver.

As far as this legislation goes, the entire point is to deny access to civilians of arms. Eventually this will include non-active duty police, but pragmatically the antis know they need the political support of police chiefs and unions in order to pass and enforce such gun control laws.

The Democrats never get and don't need the military vote, and Posse Comitatus forbids the use of military as a civil disarmament tool during non-emergency times, so exempting vets doesn't serve the Disarment Lobby's interests. Once we get far enough down the yellow brick road, even police officers will be forced to leave their service pistols at the station after roll call.