Illinois Democrat says an “assault weapons” ban is just the beginning, could handguns be next?

  When confronted by a reporter whom she thought was sympathetic to extreme gun control laws Illinois Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky admitted that an assault weapon ban was “just the beginning.” 

  She admitted that Sandy Hook provided the gun grabbers with an opportunity and they intend to take advantage of that opportunity. (Never let a good crisis go to waste.)

  When questioned on the possibility of banning handguns she didn’t rule it out. Here is the exchange:

We want everything on the table,” Schakowsky told Mattera. “This is a moment of opportunity. There’s no question about it

Schakowsky: We’re on a roll now, and I think we’ve got to take the–you know, we’re gonna push as hard as we can and as far as we can.

Mattera: So the assault weapons ban is just the beginning?

Schakowsky: Oh absolutely. I mean, I’m against handguns. We have, in Illinois, the Council Against Handgun… something [Violence]. Yeah, I’m a member of that. So, absolutely.

Mattera: We’ll never get a handgun ban with the Second Amendment as stated.

Schakowsky: I don’t know. I don’t know that we can’t. And there may be an allowance, once again, for communities–I have communities in my district that prohibited handguns within their borders. The rights of municipalities and states to view that as a sensible way to keep people safe–I don’t think it’s precluded.

  Every once in awhile the ruling class elites will slip up and tell us the truth, there is a saying that goes something like this: a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. And that is what we have just witnessed.

  If we allow Dianne Feinstein’s legislation to become law it will only be the beginning for they have bigger plans and we cannot let them get away with this. In reality Dianne Feinstein’s legislation already takes us down the path of an outright handgun ban by banning magazines over ten rounds–standard issue on many handguns–and once this is enacted there is no doubt they will then attempt to go after the rest of the handguns.

  It had been reported that Barack Obama was putting pressure on the states to enact gun control legislation that he knew he couldn’t pass at the federal level hoping to gain support for his usurpation of the second amendment at the federal level and I think this Congresswoman just showed us this report is true.