Pelosi says House will consider assault weapons ban legislation

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9. Had posted the details of that noting the AWB was a Feinstein amendment rolled into the "Crime Bill"

Also noted this - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=739097

I had to really dig through the legislation but found her original bill language and also found the transcript of the Congressional record where she had made remarks and then the actual content of her bill was included (under "Feinstein (and others) Amendment No. 1152" ) into that record transcript - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16725309

The qualifying weapons were literally listed!

And consolidating with stuff posted here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16725309

If anyone remembers what it took for James Brady to get something done after he and his party's gawd Raygun, were shot - i.e., from 1981 to 1993 before something was finally passed and signed into law in 1993 (H.R.1025 - Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act), then you can imagine trying to do the same now.

The following year, the controversial "Crime Bill" (Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) was passed, which included a 10-year assault weapon ban, the text of which (PDF, see pgs. 28317 - 28321) was incorporated into that package (vs being separate legislation), which was to be sunsetted in 2004, and was never renewed after that.

As a note as I was going through the text of the debate transcript for Feinstein's Assault Weapons Ban Amendment, I saw where she had an exchange with gun-humper and "footsie-in-the-bathroom" Larry Craig (and I think I remember this exchange being referenced quite a bit) -

Mr. CRAIG. All right.
For a few moments this evening let
us do some reality checking. The Sen-
ator from California, in her arguments
tonight I must say, was somewhat typi-
cal of those who study the issue for the
first time and then, in a very sincere
and honest way-and I do not question
that in any sense of the word-begin to
make statements that I think are im-
portant for the record, that we estab-
lish the true context.

(snip lots of bullshit gun-humper stuff)

So the Senator from California needs
to become a little more familiar with
firearms and their deadly characteris-
tics. I say that--
Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Will the Senator
yield for a point of personal privilege
for a moment, please?
Mr. CRAIG. Yes, certainly.
Mrs. FEINSTEIN. I am quite familiar
with firearms. I became mayor as a
product of assassination.
Mr. CRAIG. I am aware of that.
Mrs. FEINSTEIN. They found my as-
sassinated colleague and you could put
a finger through the bullet hole. I pro-
posed gun control legislation in San
Francisco. I went through a recall on
the basis of it. I was trained in the
shooting of a firearm when I had ter-
rorist attacks with a bomb at my
house when my husband was dying,
when I had windows shot out. Senator,
I know something about what firearms
can do.

(snip)

pg 28293 of this (PDF)

Back in March, Feinstein made remarks at a hearing regarding the need for renewing her AWB -

Link to tweet

Senator Dianne Feinstein
@SenFeinstein
Military-style assault weapons have led to the deaths of far too many Americans. Las Vegas. Dayton. Orlando. San Bernardino. Parkland. Sandy Hook. And now, Boulder. It’s time to reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban and get these weapons of war out of our communities.
12:01 PM · Mar 23, 2021

And as a note, Democrats lost control of the House at the conclusion of the 1994 election after 40 years of controlling that chamber, and finally regained it 12 years later in 2006. Then we lost it again in 2010 and again got it back in 2018.

(sorry to dump all this in a reply to you but I bookmark these threads as it's easier to get to the references )