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On Wednesday, Rhode Island Rep. Teresa Tazi (D) spoke in support of efforts to repeal a legislative grandfather clause and use \u201cpolice power\u201d to force AR-15 owners to dispose of their rifles.<\/p>\n

Breitbart News\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0in March that Democrats in Rhode Island\u2019s state legislature were trying to remove the grandfather clause that was contained in the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban passed last year. The grandfather clause allowed those who owned newly prohibited firearms to retain possession of them. But now, the Democrats are pushing to remove the grandfathered aspect of the ban and\u00a0implement a prison sentence for merely possessing an AR-15. The legislation through which they are attempting this is H8073.<\/p>\n

Tanzi spoke in favor of H8703 on Wednesday, saying<\/a>, \u201cLast year, we as a body, banned the sale, manufacture, and transfer, of certain \u2018assault weapons\u2019 as defined in that law. That was an important step, but it was only a partial one. We should be honest about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Right now our law draws an arbitrary line. We have said that these firearms cannot enter the market place going forward, but we continue to allow them to remain in circulation indefinitely. \u2026 If these weapons are too dangerous to be sold in Rhode Island then we really should have addressed possession at the same time. We didn\u2019t, and this bill [H8073] corrects that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tanzi explained that H8073 will force current AR-15 owners \u201cto come into compliance by selling or transferring them lawfully.\u201d<\/p>\n