{"id":63347,"date":"2015-12-17T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63347"},"modified":"2015-12-17T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T16:28:12","slug":"marquez-facing-gun-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63347","title":{"rendered":"Marquez facing gun charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave sends us a link to Reuters<\/a> which reports that the feds are considering charges against Enrique Marquez, the pal of the jihadist couple in the San Bernadino terrorist attack. It looks like he illegally made a straw purchase of the rifles used in the attack. It also appears that Marquez and the male jihadist had plotted a terrorist attack in 2012, but, for some reason backed down from their plans.<\/p>\n

Marquez, who had known Farook since they were teenage neighbors in the city of Riverside, legally purchased the two AR-15 assault-style rifles that the couple used in their attack on a holiday party of Farook’s co-workers.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday said there was no evidence that the San Bernardino attackers, who were also inspired by Islamic State, had been part of a terrorist cell.<\/p>\n

Neighbors said Marquez and Farook often worked together on cars in Farook’s garage in their younger years but that the friendship had cooled in the past three years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this is what the left has been waiting for – a mass shooting that involved the use of scary-looking black rifles. According to The Hill<\/a>, the Democrats have introduced a reincarnated version of the Clinton-era “assault weapon ban” so that, for some reason that escapes me, they won’t have their senses disturbed by the legality of bayonet studs and flash suppressors.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, let\u2019s remember that assault weapons were first designed for the battlefield by Germans during the Second World War,\u201d said Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), who is leading congressional efforts to ban these types of guns. “The sole purpose of their existence was to kill as many people as quickly as possible during military combat.”<\/p>\n

The Assault Weapons Ban of 2015 introduced Wednesday by Cicilline would target semi-automatic and other military-style guns. It would ensure that no such weapons are manufactured for consumer use, while placing new restrictions on the sale of already existing assault weapons.<\/p>\n

The legislation is backed by about 90 Democratic co-sponsors, but has no hope of passing through Congress, given opposition from Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good. I hope they stick with their principles on this issue and try to scare the American public with their images of Germans and Nazis. This isn’t a winning issue for them.<\/p>\n

Under the legislation, gun owners who already have assault weapons would be allowed to keep them, but they could face challenges reselling them.<\/p>\n

The bill would intensify background checks for people looking to buy any of the estimated 8 million to 9 million assault weapons that are already in circulation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nothing like influencing Americans to go out and make a record number of purchases ahead of the Democrats’ ill-conceived proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave sends us a link to Reuters which reports that the feds are considering charges against Enrique Marquez, the pal of the jihadist couple in the San Bernadino terrorist attack. It looks like he illegally made a straw purchase of the rifles used in the attack. It also appears that Marquez and the male jihadist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gtJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}