***The most popular crime guns, .38 revolvers and 9-mm. handguns, are not expected to be on lawmakers’ list of banned weapons. …***
Didn’t stop them from demanding bans on these weapons!
It has always been about handguns. Assault rifles are just a decoy to try and get their anti-gun foot in the door.
Once they get a ban on AWs then they will use the same reasons to go after handguns.
John Kennedy killed with a 5 shot bolt action rifle.
Medgar Evers, shot with a 5 shot 1917 bolt action Enfield rifle.
Martin Luther King, shot with a 4 shot Remington 760 pump action Gamemaster rifle.
Bobby Kennedy with a .22 Iver Johnson Cadet revolver.
George Wallace wounded with a 5 shot Charter Arms .38spl revolver.
Howard Johnsons shooter killed nine, wounded thirteen with a 4 shot RUGER .44 mag Deerslayer rifle.
Gerald Ford attacked with a 7 shot 1911 semi auto.
Edmond OK post office with two National Guard 7 shot 1911 pistols.
Ronald Reagan and Jim Brady with an RG-14 .22 revolver.
What do they all have in common? NONE over 7 rounds, yet after each one came a cry of panic to ban them.
We all know better, but there is a basis for that belief in exactly one historic firearm.
The earliest UZI submachineguns were quite inaccurate ~ Wiki says 50 meters was about it ~ and I've been told by folks who needed them and who fired those earliest weapons that it was more like 5 feet.
A gentlemen or lady in a tank or other track vehicle, or another gentlemen "clearing a trench" (as Wiki's counsel put it) probably preferred a higher rate of fire of moderately erratic bullets than ten thousand yard precision!
Odds are good that just about the only real on the ground warrior types many top end Democrat leaders have ever met were previously in the IDF. This would be particularly true of the New York contingent.
So, yeah, the one weapon with any familiarity at all to our enemy, kinda' sprays.
Just keep that in mind, and correct their misperception about every other firearm on the planet and that should disarm their arguments in their own minds.