Posted on 02/27/2015 3:49:12 AM PST by marktwain
Arizona state Senator, Dr. Kelli Ward, added an amendment to a bill on restoration of civil rights. The amendment would remove several obsolete and arcane weapons bans. The bill, SB 1460, would add second amendment rights to civil rights that are restored when a person who had been convicted of a felony petitions a court for restoration of their rights. From havasunews.com:
Her amendment to SB 1460 legalizes devices "made or adapted to muzzle the report of a firearm.'' Also gone would be prohibitions against any rifle or shotgun with an overall length of less than 26 inches, with no new minimum in its place.The amendment would remove state bans on short barreled rifles and shotguns, on gun mufflers, and on nun-chucks. There never was much logic to the bans. Short barreled rifles and shotguns are essentially pistols made from rifles or shotguns. Rifles, shotguns and pistols are all protected by the second amendment and the Arizona state constitution.
Both can be legally possessed under federal law. But buyers must go through a more-intensive screening than the one required to purchase just any weapon.
And while she was at it, Ward got senators to provide preliminary approval to "nunchucks,'' essentially two or more sticks, clubs, bars or rods connected together to be used as a weapon.
Classifying one particular device as a "firearm silencer" is a relatively unimportant question in the grand scheme of federal firearm regulations. Indeed, it is difficult to determine what exactly Congress was concerned about in deciding to regulate silencers at the federal level. See, e.g., P. Clark, Criminal Use of Firearm Silencers, 8 W. CRIM. REVIEW 44, 48 (2007) ("The 1934 congressional debates [over what became the National Firearms Act] provide no explanation about why silencers were licensed."). In other words, the stakes here are low. This weighs against Chevron deference.The ban on nun-chucks is even less logical. It is a ban on two sticks joined by a rope or chain! That ban likely came about as a result of the kung-fu movies in the 1980's. It would not be the first time a ban was the result of fictional drama and hysterical overreaction. Switchblade knives were banned from interstate commerce in 1958. The ban was the result of yellow journalism and the play, West Side Story. Arizona had the sense to avoid a state ban on knives that are easily opened with one hand.
Kelli is a friend and, IMHO, the best and hardest working state legislator in the nation. I am hoping she will challenge McCain in 2016.
Why would Arizona have a ban on obsolete weapons?
Kelli needs to add in wording that there will be NO BAN on ammunition of ANY KIND. Odumbo is just now trying to ban 5.56 ammo used in the Ar-15 rifles. With a stroke of the pen, odumbo can and WILL ban any and all ammunition if he so desires, time to cut that bastard off at the pass BEFORE he strikes.
“Why would Arizona have a ban on obsolete weapons?”
Because politicians fear the media much more than they respect logic or common sense.
All of these weapon bans were based on media hype and lies, designed to get legislation passed, to infringe on the second amendment.
(Yes, I understand your word play) Both meanings make sense, the sign if a good headline.
You know what’s so stupid about banning suppressors on guns? Most of it is probably movie logic. The reality is, movies exaggerate how much a suppressor reduces the sound of a gunshot. Plus a little noise reduction is good for your ears, plus it is good for a distant neighbor not to hear something as loud when someone is doing rural target practice or hunting.
Teddy Roosevelt, while in his home in Oyster Bay, the lovable old money section of Long Island, NY, had a Winchester Model 94, made with a ‘detachable suppressor’, in response to his neighbors complaining about the rifle’s report, when he would sit on the porch, and dispatch gophers and groundhogs on the family property.
There are some interesting asides about “nunchuks” (Nunchaku) that are amusing. With rather nebulous origins in Okinawa, it is popularly thought to have been invented as a flail used to thresh rice or soybeans. However, in a very amusing note:
“Peasant-origin nunchaku proponents also suggest these innovators were not so much rebellious as attempting to be capable of a surprise defense against overzealous tax collectors’ visits gone bad, or other perilous scenarios for which they were otherwise perpetually unarmed.”
Sounds familiar.
In any event, when used properly the action of nunchaku is not disputed, as its motion creates impressive force delivered to a very small area, which can produce significant injury.
The same can be said for a bullet.
Stay focused on facts.
The M855 ban is NOT a general ban on 5.56 ammo, it is a re-classification of a very specific type of bullet built to military spec and having a steel penetrator (what the BATFE is incorrectly calling a “core”).
While it shouldn’t be banned at all, don’t go construing the ban as being on _all_ 5.56 ammo. The Obama can’t “with a stroke of a pen...ban any and all ammunition if he so desires” ... if he could, he would have already.
We’ve seen this coming for over a decade, it’s not a surprise. Lead & copper ammo will remain available, and we’ll see a serious court case over the difference between “core” vs “tip”, and whether the AP ban violates the 2nd Amendment - arguments we need to have and win.
Except nunchaku can also easily deliver lots and lots of less than lethal injuries quickly as well, against both soft and hard targets. For example, used properly against the back of the thigh and you will give somebody one heck of a charley horse, that will turn into a painful knot and a heck of a bruise.
And, for those times when you want to send a message, not just kill, nunchaku can deliver a top to bottom, 360 degree of ouchy places.
Surely I’m not the only one who thinks all but the ones forbidding convicted felons from purchasing them are obsolete?
Heck, if you could put them on a list and delete the ones that were inspired by the boogieman in the closet, the list would probably be blank.
You are correct.
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