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Sen. Adam Schiff simply inherited Dianne Feinstein’s torch—and instantly used it to gentle his credibility on hearth.
In a now-laughed-off social media video, Schiff reintroduced the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2025,” a recycled gun management fever dream that’s already been dunked on by the information—and even by his personal platform.
Inside hours, the submit received slapped with a brutal neighborhood be aware stating that his declare—that the 1994 ban “held crime and mass shootings at bay for 10 years”—is flat-out false. The Division of Justice’s personal analysis says it had no measurable impact on gun violence.
Oops.
That didn’t cease Schiff from repeating the drained outdated speaking level about “weapons of warfare,” a time period cooked up by individuals who clearly haven’t fired something louder than a Nerf gun.
By no means thoughts the over 30 million fashionable sporting rifles (MSRs) in circulation throughout America—used each day by law-abiding residents for searching, house protection, competitors taking pictures, and plinking pop cans within the yard.
That’s extra MSRs than there are Ford F-150s, and no one’s attempting to ban these.
Let’s be clear: this invoice has no probability of passing. Even with Democrats controlling Congress in 2021-2022, the ban by no means made it to a vote.
Now, with Republicans holding each chambers, it’s useless on arrival. That’s the nicest approach to say “laughably doomed.”
However the circus should go on. Schiff trotted out the standard suspects—Padilla, Murphy, Blumenthal, and the Brady/Giffords crew—for a press convention no one watched, to push polling numbers no one believes.
Murphy had the gall to name this invoice “in style,” although Gallup reveals assist for an AWB dropping steadily, from 61% in 2019 to only 52% in 2024. In the meantime, opposition retains climbing, as NSSF’s Larry Keane famous in a superb op-ed.
Right here’s the reality: Schiff’s Assault Weapons Ban isn’t about security. It’s about management, headlines, and money for gun management PACs. Schiff’s political theater could excite donors and D.C. interns, however in the actual world, People aren’t shopping for it—and so they’re not giving up their rights.
Good attempt, Senator. Possibly subsequent time, deliver information as an alternative of fiction.
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