HR1808 - Bad Gun Bills Never Die
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🗓️ 28 July 2022
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Summary
HR 1808, also known as the "Assault Weapons Ban of 2021" did not become law in 2021. It probably won't become law in 2022. But it will never actually go away...
Isaac gives quick run-through of what this bill would do, the arguments made for and against it last week, and its eerie similarities to the Assault Weapons ban of 1994.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to you another T-Rex talk. Today I want to talk about House Resolution 1808 that was essentially a resurrection of the Clinton era assault weapons ban. |
| 0:11.9 | And I was going to record this podcast yesterday, but I'm glad that I waited because there's actually news about this today. |
| 0:18.9 | Essentially, Nancy Pelosi is not going to bring H.R. 1808 to a vote, at least not this |
| 0:25.7 | month, possibly in August. And the reason that she's not bringing it to the floor for a vote is |
| 0:29.6 | because she doesn't have the votes to pass it. Now, my personal theory is that this bill is dead |
| 0:35.5 | because it was killed by Eli Dickon. At the same time |
| 0:39.1 | that Eli Dickon killed the Indiana mall shooter, he also killed several pro-gun confiscation arguments, |
| 0:47.1 | and that's why there's not the votes to pass this bill. Well, the other reason is that it's |
| 0:52.4 | election time and essentially HR 1808 is very much like |
| 0:57.4 | the 1994 assault weapons ban in a whole bunch of different ways. It really does incredibly |
| 1:04.1 | similar things in incredibly similar ways. It bans the sale of all semi-automatic rifles |
| 1:08.8 | and shotguns that are equipped with features like pistol |
| 1:12.0 | grips and flash suppressors and adjustable stocks and barrel shrouds and threaded barrels and things like |
| 1:16.9 | that and it bans a whole bunch of guns specifically by name just like the 1984 assault weapons ban but |
| 1:23.4 | it bans more guns by name and it bans a whole lot of pistols very specifically by name and it bans more guns by name, and it bans a whole lot of pistols very specifically by name, |
| 1:30.7 | and it exempts a whole bunch of automatic shotguns that I'm assuming members of Congress own. |
| 1:37.3 | That's possibly the reason why auto-loading shotguns that are exempted by name are so prevalent in the bill, |
| 1:46.1 | and then other types of weapons less likely to be exempted by name are so prevalent in the bill and then other types of weapons less likely to be exempted by name. So it's a more aggressive version of the 1994 assault weapons |
| 1:52.5 | ban, which was really, really catastrophic for the Democrats. It really cost them an awful lot of |
| 2:00.5 | votes. And given that we have some pretty |
| 2:02.8 | interesting midterms coming up, it wouldn't surprise me that a lot of Democrats are nervous. |
| 2:07.2 | I've talked about this a bit in the past, I think mostly in the T-Rex arms political newsletters, |
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