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Jewish Gun Control

Here are some of the Jewish stalwarts who have sought to disarm ordinary
Americans from 1968 to 2006. Their armed bodyguards not listed.
1968 - The Gun Control Act of 1968 came from Rep. Emanuel Cellers
House bill H.R.17735. That is the biggest and most far-reaching gun law.
1988 - Senator Howard Metzenbaum sponsored Senate bill S.1523, which
proposed turning every violation of the 1968 Gun Control Act into a RICO
predicate offense, so that a gun owner could be charged with federal
racketeering offenses. The same year Metzenbaum co-sponsored S. 2180 to
ban or restrict so-called plastic guns.
1990 - Senator Herbert Kohl introduced bill S.2070, the Gun-Free School
Zones Act. (Later struck down as unconstitutional.)
1993 - Metzenbaum sponsored S.653, banning certain semi-automatic rifles.
Also gave the Secretary of the Treasury the power to later add more firearms
to the list.
1994 - The Brady Law. Metzenbaum introduced the Brady Bill and
sponsored it in the Senate. In the House of Representatives it was sponsored
by Charles Schumer.
1994 - Metzenbaum introduced S.1878, the Gun Violence Prevention Act,
aka Brady II. Its sister legislation was sponsored by Schumer in the House.
1994 - The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 went
into effect, including a ban on semi-automatic rifles labeled assault
weapons. Authored by Senator Dianne Feinstein, authored in the House by
Schumer.
1995 - Senator Kohl, Specter, Feinstein, Lautenberg and others introduced
the Gun-Free School Zones Act. Struck down as unconstitutional.
1996 - The Lautenberg Domestic Confiscation provision became law as part
of a larger omnibus appropriations bill. Sponsored by Senator Frank
Lautenberg. It banned people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence
from ever owning a gun.
1997 - Senate Bill S.54, the Federal Gang Violence Act, proposed far more
Draconian sentences for violations of minor gun laws, including mandatory
prison sentences and confiscation of property. Introduced by Feinstein,

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among others. Also repeated the idea of RICO-targeting any offense of the
GCA of 1968.
1999 - Kohl introduced Bill S.149, the Child Safety Lock Act. It demanded
a child safety lock in connection with the transfer of a handgun.
1999 - Lautenberg introduced S.443, the Gun Show Accountability Act.
1999 - Lautenberg came up with S.594, the Large Capacity Ammunition
Magazine Import Ban Act.
1999 - Feinstein wrote S.594, the Gun Industry Accountability Act.
2000 - S.2515, the Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act, by Senators
Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Lautenberg, Schumer. A plan for national
licensing.
2001 - S.25, the Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act, was sponsored
by Feinstein, Schumer and Boxer. A nation-wide gun-registration plan.
2003 - Feinstein, Schumer, Boxer and others wrote legislation to reauthorize
the 1994 federal assault weapons ban, and ban large ammo mags from being
imported.
2003 - Feinstein, Lautenberg, Levin and Schumer co-sponsored Bill S.1774,
seeking to stop the end of the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988.
2005 - Lautenberg wrote S.645 to restart the 1994 assault-rifle ban which
had expired the year before.
2005 - Feinstein wrote S.620, for the same reason as Lautenbergs bill, to
reinstate the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act.
2006 - Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York and the 13th richest
man in the world, was one of two founders of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Despite the name only one of the groups four major aims was concerned
with illegal firearms. Later turned into Everytown for Gun Safety, with John
Feinblatt as president.