so, the US government no longer believes all men are created equal.

[Ibrahim90]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/feinstein-gun-control-bill-exempt-government-officials_697732.html

god I wish I was making that shit up.

Not everyone will have to abide by Senator Dianne Feinstein's gun control bill. If the proposed legislation becomes law, government officials and others will be exempt.

"Mrs. Feinstein's measure would exempt more than 2,200 types of hunting and sporting rifles; guns manually operated by bolt, pump, lever or slide action; and weapons used by government officials, law enforcement and retired law enforcement personnel," the Washington Times reports.

The Huffington Post confirms these exemptions, and adds that guns owned prior to the legislation becoming law will be permissible, too. "[T]he bill includes a number of exemptions: It exempts more than 2,200 hunting and sporting weapons; any gun manually operated by a bolt, pump, lever or slide action; any weapons used by government officials and law enforcement; and any weapons legally owned as of the date of the bill's enactment."

The bill's measures include stopping "the sale, manufacture and importation of 158 specifically named military-style firearms and ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. It would also ban an additional group of assault weapons that accept detachable ammunition magazines and have at least one military characteristic," according to the Huffington Post.

The left-leaning website adds: "Other new provisions include requiring background checks on all future transfers of assault weapons covered under the bill and eliminating the 10-year sunset that allowed the original ban to expire."

[AnCap Dave]

This really isn't anything new. Any legislation that applies to everyone else more times than not doesn't apply to government either due to a direct exemption within the bill or merely lack of enforcement due to their membership of the political elite.

[Ibrahim90]

This really isn't anything new. Any legislation that applies to everyone else more times than not doesn't apply to government either due to a direct exemption within the bill or merely lack of enforcement due to their membership of the political elite.

seriously?

I thought I left that shit behind in Kuwait, where they have one law for the Kuwaitis, and one for the foreigners, and yet another for Palestinians and bidoons.

[MrBogosity]

seriously?

I thought I left that shit behind in Kuwait, where they have one law for the Kuwaitis, and one for the foreigners, and yet another for Palestinians and bidoons.

You haven't been listening to my podcast, have you?

[Ibrahim90]

You haven't been listening to my podcast, have you?

for the record, to be sure, I'm being sarcastic. I'm not very good at communicating it obviously... (and in case you're serious: course I do).

doesn't change the fact that I am still amazed people can get anymore corrupt and/or stupid, especially in a country that is supposedly less corrupt than those in the near east, a region which it incessantly pontificates to about how corrupt they are and how they all need to be more like the US. Oh, and constantly makes a show of how everyone's equal before the law. Now they aren't even trying to hide it--even ineptly.

I know I shouldn't be amazed, yet I am.

[evensgrey]

There was the time Ron Paul introduced a very, very small bill (on paragraph long) that simply declared all such exemptions for Federal employees to be void.  Naturally, it didn't go anywhere.