Like others, I don't see anything passing the House. You've got a voting bloc that's set itself to deny the President anything he wants. They're not going to let him have a win with gun control.
Furthermore, the language in Heller seems to preclude any sort of sweeping ban on a class of weapons in common use.
And yes, Feinstein does bring this to the table every single year. There will be a great deal of chest-beating about it while its supporters do the rounds on television. Then it'll get deep-sixed in committee, and they'll scream about how they wanted to do something, but the evil gun lobby wouldn't give it to them.
Then other issues will come around and eclipse this. It's all a certain sort of morbid theater.
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Sometimes it’s nice not to destroy the world for a change.
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