Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) announced bill H.R. 5344, the Responsible Body Armor Possession Act of 2014, this week that would ban civilians from purchasing military-grade body armor.
“This bill will keep military body armor out of the wrong hands,” Honda stated. “It would ensure that only law enforcement, firefighters and other first responders would be able to access enhanced body armor.”
“We’re not talking about just a standard bullet-proof vest,” Honda said. “We’re talking about body armor that is designed for warfare, designed to protect against law enforcement ammunitions.”
Yet more garbage from a communist politician who knows nothing about guns. There is no such thing as ‘law enforcement ammunitions’. Cops pretty much use the same bullets as everyone else. Of course, with the militarization of law enforcement taking place across the country that could change at any time.
Honda also states, “Access to military-grade body armor emboldens criminals and mass shooters to act. “There’s nothing more dangerous than an unstoppable, well-armored shooter,” he said. “The law enforcement community sees an increase in use of body armor in violent, gun-related crimes.”
So violent criminals would become more violent, more ’emboldened’, with military body armor as opposed to a regular body armor? It’s absurd to think this bill is about protecting society from violent criminals, it’s about arms control. Always will be with liberals.
The congressman cited a shooting on July 22 in Riverside County, where a man wearing body armor and armed with an assault rifle shot and killed two sheriff’s deputies and wounded another.
“We should be asking ourselves, why is this armor available to just anyone, if it was designed to be used only by our solders to take to war?” Honda said.
He said he introduced the bill, H.R. 5344, the Responsible Body Armor Possession Act of 2014, in Congress last week.
The proposed law would prohibit the sale, transfer or possession of military-level body armor by civilians.
Honda said it has been endorsed by law enforcement organizations including the California State Sheriffs’ Association, the Fraternal Order of Police and the Peace Officers Research Association of California, according to Honda.
Santa Clara County’s District Attorney Jeff Rosen and Sheriff Laurie Smith and Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley and Sheriff Gregory Ahern also attended today’s news conference, held at the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office in San Jose.
Santa Clara police Chief Michael Sellers and Milpitas police Chief Steve Pangelinan also attended the news conference.
but he’s gonna continue giving it to crooked cops, I don’t think so, these politicians have really forgotten who they work for.
Jack thompson says:
“First logical destruction of Rep Honda’s belief that banning body armor would stop criminals – Rep. Honda “access to military-grade body armor emboldens criminals and mass shooters to act.” If that’s true Rep Honda then declaring socially active areas gunfree zones do the same thing. If a criminal knows that a location is free of law abiding citizens carrying a weapon then are they not emboldened to commit a crime using a gun?
Logical destruction #2. Rep Honda cited an incident in which two deputies were killed and another injured while confronting an armed assailant wearing body armor. Were the LEOs wearing body armor themselves? Did wearing the body armor give the criminal an actually advantage or a perceived advantage? Maybe better training and equipment for LEOs should be your focus instead of putting words on paper which criminals don’t care about. Question: Were the Deputies that were killed and injured at a
department that had recently had budget cuts because your state is
going broke? If the Deputies were not wearing body armor nor had other
equipment to enhance their job performance maybe budget cuts are the issues your should deal with. What’s next Rep Honda, a ban on accurate sights and scopes?”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/rep-mike-honda-announces-bill-banning-civilians-buying-body-armor/comment-page-12/#comment-423957
“Yet more garbage from a communist politician who knows nothing about guns”
Communists, at least real ones, are just as against this bill as anyone else.
– A communist gun owner
How many mass shooters had body armor? Bank of America? That pretty much it? Two guys in a gun free state with illegally modified weapons that walked all ice liberal neutered cops they had completely out gunned, and liberals intend to keep outgunned.