JCDenton0451
10-11-2013, 04:06 PM
Jerry Brown vetoes gun-control legislation (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/10/11/jerry-brown-vetoes-gun-control-legislation/)
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Friday vetoed two measures to restrict the sale and possession of certain semi-automatic assault weapons, putting the brakes on some of the most aggressive gun-control proposals in state legislatures this year.
Brown vetoed Senate Bill 374, which would have banned semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines and required firearm owners to register even low-capacity rifles as assault weapons.
In a message to the legislature, Brown wrote he didn’t “believe that this bill’s blanket ban on semi-automatic rifles would reduce criminal activity or enhance public safety enough to warrant this infringement on gun owners’ rights.”
The National Rifle Association had threatened to file a lawsuit over the bill, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D). In a statement earlier this week, an NRA attorney singled the measure out for special ridicule, the Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-nra-threatens-lawsuits-over-california-gun-bills-20131008,0,1115667.story) reported on Tuesday.
And earlier in the week he vetoed a bill to allow non-citizens to serve on juries. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?429849-Jerry-Brown-Vetoes-Bill-To-Allow-Non-Citizens-On-Juries)
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Friday vetoed two measures to restrict the sale and possession of certain semi-automatic assault weapons, putting the brakes on some of the most aggressive gun-control proposals in state legislatures this year.
Brown vetoed Senate Bill 374, which would have banned semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines and required firearm owners to register even low-capacity rifles as assault weapons.
In a message to the legislature, Brown wrote he didn’t “believe that this bill’s blanket ban on semi-automatic rifles would reduce criminal activity or enhance public safety enough to warrant this infringement on gun owners’ rights.”
The National Rifle Association had threatened to file a lawsuit over the bill, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D). In a statement earlier this week, an NRA attorney singled the measure out for special ridicule, the Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-nra-threatens-lawsuits-over-california-gun-bills-20131008,0,1115667.story) reported on Tuesday.
And earlier in the week he vetoed a bill to allow non-citizens to serve on juries. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?429849-Jerry-Brown-Vetoes-Bill-To-Allow-Non-Citizens-On-Juries)