Reply #10: As mayor of San Fran, she fought for a total ban on all handguns [View All]

[benEzra]

but it was overturned by the courts. While fighting for the ban, I have read she turned in one of her handguns as a public gesture of support for the law...but kept her other handgun, which she was licensed to carry...

The "assault weapon" bait-and-switch banned the new manufacture of all civilian firearms holding more than only 10 rounds, with a few inconsequential exceptions, and restricted all civilian self-loading firearms manufactured after Sept. 1994 from having two or more of a list of cosmetic or ergonomic features she didn't like. (i.e., a rifle could have a protruding handgrip or a screw-on muzzle brake, but could not have both; a rifle with a protruding handgrip would have to have a pin-on brake instead, or a smooth muzzle).

That has to be the most hated piece of Federal legislation among American gun owners ever, and mobilized gun owners into political action like no other issue before or since.