This video from Washington Gun Law TV, featuring President William Kirk, details Rhode Island's proposed House Bill 5436, an assault weapon ban. The bill defines various semi-automatic firearms, including rifles, shotguns, and pistols, as "assault weapons" based on features and magazine capacity. It bans possession, manufacture, sale, and transfer of these items after July 1, 2026, with a mandatory registration and permit-to-possess requirement for existing owners. The speaker emphasizes the Supreme Court's unwillingness to review such bans as emboldening states like Rhode Island to pursue civilian disarmament measures.
Colion Noir provides an expert legal analysis of Rhode Island bills S539 and H5436, which propose banning semi-automatic firearms based on cosmetic features and specific designs. He critiques the legislation for targeting the appearance of firearms rather than addressing violent crime, citing data that rifles constitute a small fraction of homicides. The video serves as a call to action to protect Second Amendment rights against what is perceived as infringement based on arbitrary criteria.
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