Details

• Sponsor - Lautenberg
• Proposed - March 16, 2005
• Congressional Record Link - S.645
• Amends - None.
• Amendments - None.
• Vote - None yet.
• Results - No change in law.

Status

March 16, 2005 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

July 22, 2006 - This bill has only 11 cosponsors and has not gotten any new ones since March 16, 2005.

The 2007 version of the AWB is available at House Bill 1022 - Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007.

Synopsis

This bill has substantial differences from the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. Specifically:

• Post ban magazines will get serial numbers. That includes those imported after the effective date.
• The delineated list of assault weapons has been expanded.
• The definition of 'Semiautomatic Assault Weapon' (SAW) has changed. Most significantly, they only require one of the optional features, instead of two.
• Receivers similar to those used by defined SAWs are now SAWs.
• Firearms based on designs that are military or police firearms are now SAWs.
• 'Pistol Grip' now includes thumbhole stocks and anything else that can function as a grip.
• There is no expiration date.

Analysis

This is just another attempt to bring us back to cosmetic restrictions and magazine size restrictions that restricted the rights of the law abiding without providing any benefit to society.

The issues presented by this bill are obvious and numerous. The appearance is that they just want to make semiautomatic rifles illegal.

Belief on the street is that it has little chance for success. S.2498 was Feinstein's attempt in the 108th Senate to renew the 1994 AWB before it expired. It was never brought up for a vote.

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