Posted on 03/29/2013 4:05:27 PM PDT by OL Hickory
Can't have them protecting themselves and their families.
The NRA (and many gun manufacturers) did stab us in the back on the 68 GCA. The NRA has changed for the better since then but I still don’t completely trust them.
For instance the NRA supported and still supports those idiotic background checks. It sure isn’t a right if I have to have the government check me out and approve me before can exercise a right.
Any congress critter can introduce a bill and it is assigned a number. This one is headed to the Judiciary Committee where it will be filed and forgotten. At the end of this Congressional session, bills not acted upon expire and the numbering system starts anew with the beginning of the next session.
Translated, if your wife, mother, or daughter carries it for protection, it is illegal.
In a poor black community, say somewhere Detroit, that inexpensive Jennsen .25 auto, AKA a Saturday Night Special, could mean the difference between life and death for a family being hit by street thugs.
Just because a family CAN’T afford a high line Glock, doesn’t mean they have to give up self defense.
Those so-called Saturday Night Specials have saved a lot of good people bacon in mean neighborhoods.
“Sporting handgun” is just another commie pig, squawking point parrot head piece of propaganda.
“OK, I am not a legal eagle, but to me this is an umbrella to ban handguns based on a definition of “sporting handgun”..is my tin foil hat on to tight? “
No. You are correct. This bill bans all handguns. It bans all handguns that are not “sporting” handguns, and since there’s no such thing as a “sporting” handgun, all guns are therefore not a “sporting” handgun, and therefore all handguns are banned. Quite simple actually.
There is no “sporting purpose” clause in the 2nd Amendment.
Currently, the ATF uses a scoring system to determine the “sporting purposes” level of a handgun. It’s used to keep many guns out of the country by making them unimportable.
By the current system, it would ban almost all short barreled handguns of .380 cal or lower. It wouldn’t be too hard for the rules to change and make things much more strict.
Here’s a link to the ATF criteria.
http://www.atf.gov/files/forms/download/atf-f-5330-5.pdf
“Sporting” of course has nothing to do with its frequent use in sporting events.
If it can be grandfathered, then there is no reason to consider it illegal in the future. I would wager this is a move to squash 3-D printing......substandard parts that wear out quickly constitute "junk".
***It is the NRA that started the “sporting use of firearms” crap.***
Look again at the 1968 Gun Control law. It banned the import of 5 shot bolt action rifles and handguns, but not police 5 shot rifles. Banned the import of small FOREIGN MADE handguns. Large pistols were A-OK!
It did not ban ANY American made pistol. Foreign manufacturers got around the law by shipping parts to the US for assembly here, or added wider grips and adjustable sights to their firearms to meet the new requirements.
The real purpose of the original Dodd-Cellar law was not to prevent crime, it was to protect American Gunmakers from the import of cheap foreign rifles. they used the death of JFK and Bobby Kennedy as a smokescreen for this law.
The firearm that killed Bobby Kennedy was not banned.
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