Gun Control

Carolyn McCarthy is known as one of the fiercest gun control advocates ever. and next week, she will be releasing a bill that outlaws high capacity magazines, which, is gun clips which hold high levels of bullets. It would also outlaw selling or giving away clips that have more than ten rounds, like the expired Brady Bill, but this new one would also cover the ones before that, which Brady did not. It carries ten years in prison if guilty. This is a personal thing for her, as her husband was killed, and her son injured by someone who was shooting with a high capacity magazine in 1993. However, guns rights advocates and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say gun control legislation has no real chance of passing, even given the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords, a Representative of Arizona. We need to do something. If not this, then we should consider Rep. Pter King's bill, which would ban guns ONLY when 1,000 feet or less from a Congressperson.