Robin Smith, former Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party and congressional candidate.National policy does have local implications. A Tennessee manufacturing company is now in the fray because of “gun control” efforts elsewhere.
In recent days, New York has made significant legislative changes making the state the first to implement gun control measures immediately following the tragedy of the mentally-impaired young man murdering the innocent children and adults of the Newtown elementary school.
Included in the legislation signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo were regulations to “fortify New York’s existing assault weapons ban” and to “limit the number of bullets allowed in magazines.”
Even the New York Times editorial blog assessed Cuomo’s rush to regulate as less-than-desirable. “The resulting bill is hard to judge on the merits. It’s a snarl of good ideas, strange ideas and ideas that seem quite bad. While some items should figure into federal gun control legislation, Washington should not take New York as an example of how to go about this difficult business,” editor Andrew Rosenthal wrote.
In Washington, D.C., U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., reintroduced her Federal Assault Weapons Ban Act. Her sweeping proposal would ban more than 150 firearms classified as “assault weapons” and prohibits the sale or manufacture of “any magazine that is capable of 10 rounds.”