Assault Weapons Revisited

americanprogress.org ^ | 9/12/2014 | Arkadi Gerney and Chelsea Parsons

[rktman]

Twenty years after the successful passage of the federal assault weapons ban and 10 years after its expiration, the push for a federal ban on these guns seems stuck in neutral. But much more can be done to strengthen regulation of particularly dangerous guns and to ensure that laws regulating handguns and long guns make sense in today’s context.

[rktman]

Oh man. Where to start? Well first off it's from "americanprogress.org" so I guess that's the first take away. The rest is so tiresome it's just plain sad. But you have to at least give them credit for one thing. They don't give up trying to subvert our rights.

[Vaquero]

I suppose that the site has the leftist ‘progress’ in it is self explanatory . But a barf alert would still be preferred.

[rktman]

Yikes. If one can stomach reading their entire screed, go to this link:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/239330749/Assault-Weapons-Revisited

As hard as it is, sometimes you have to read things just so you know what the enemy is up to.

[clee1]

No FRiend. We already know what they’re up to....

The same crap they’ve been up to for 100 years: the transformation of our Nation into a socialist/fascist state.

[Yosemitest]

These stupid liberals don't have a CLUE !
Round up all these idiots, load 'em on a C-5, slap a parachute on their backs and an M-16 in their hands, and kick 'em out over ISIS.
Then they'll learn the value of an assault weapon.

The United States Citizens KNOW that they're going to have to fight TYRANTS in their own government.
You can not protect life, without the ability to take life.

While you are WAITING for the police to respond, someone could be losing their life.
All people of a responsible age should be armed.

As EternalVigilance reminded us:

The Second Amendment IS Pro-Life.

"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these:
First, a right to life;
Secondly, to liberty;
Thirdly, to property;
together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation,
commonly called the first law of nature...
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,
to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights;
when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution,
is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights;
the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right,
the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,
it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift
and voluntarily become a slave."




-- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists

Click here to read the 12 page pamphlet.

Let us NEVER FORGET THAT !

Let's subjugate them to OUR end game, DUST!
"COMPROMISE" is a DIRTY word!
People who study the Bible know that COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.


It's time to mock the "Gun Control" Zombies!
"Gun Control" is a firm grip, steady breathing, accurate aim (developed by lots of practice), and a slow trigger pull.


The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
We need to learn from the Swiss and implement their "gun control measures" here in the United States right now, today!
These laws are the ones we should shove into the "2nd Amendment Haters" faces.

" Today, military service for Swiss males is universal. At about age 20, every Swiss male goes through 118 consecutive days of recruit training in the Rekrutenschule. ...

Even before required training begins, young men and women may take optional courses with the Swiss army's M57 assault rifle.
They keep that gun at home for three months and receive six half-day training sessions.

From age 21 to 32, a Swiss man serves as a "frontline" troop in the Auszug, and devotes three weeks a year (in eight of the 12 years) to continued training.
From age 33 to 42, he serves in the Landwehr (like America's National Guard); every few years, he reports for two-week training periods.
Finally, from ages 43, to 50, he serves in the Landsturm; in this period, he only spends 13 days total in "home guard courses."

Over a soldier's career he also spends scattered days on mandatory equipment inspections and required target practice.
Thus, in a 30-year mandatory military career, a Swiss man only spends about one year in direct military service.
Following discharge from the regular army, men serve on reserve status until age 50 (55 for officers).

By the Federal Constitution of 1874, military servicemen are given their first equipment, clothing and arms.
After the first training period, conscripts must keep gun, ammunition and equipment an ihrem Wohnort ("in their homes") until the end of their term of service.

Today, enlisted men are issued M57 AUTOMATIC assault rifles and officers are given pistol.
Each reservist is issued 24 rounds of ammunition in sealed packs for emergency use.
(Contrary to Handgun Control's claim that "all ammunition must be accounted for," the emergency ammunition is the only ammo that requires accounting.)

After discharge from service, the man is given a bolt rifle free from registration or obligation.
Starting in the 1994, the government will GIVE ex-reservists assault rifles. Officers carry pistols rather than rifles and are given their pistols the end of their service.

When the government adopts a new infantry rifle, it sells the old ones to the public.

Reservists are encouraged to buy MILITARY ammunition
(7.5 and 5.6mm-5.56 mm in other countries-for rifles and 9 and 7.65 mm Luger for pistols)
which is sold AT COST by the government, for target practice .
Non-military ammunition for long-gun hunting and .22 Long Rifle (LR) ammo are not subsidised, but are subiect to NO sales controls.
Non-military non-hunting ammunition more powerful than .22 LR (such as .38 Spl.) is registered at the time of sale.

Swiss military ammo must be registered IF bought at a private store, BUT NEED NOT BE REGISTERED IF bought at a range.
The nation's 3,000 shooting ranges sell the overwhelming majority of ammunition.
Technically, ammunition bought at the range must be used at the range, but the rule is barely known and almost never obeyed.

The army SELLS a variety of machine guns, submachine guns, anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers and cannons.
Purchasers of these weapons require an EASILY OBTAINED cantonal license, and the weapons are registered.
In a nation of six million people, there are at least two million guns, including 600,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC assault rifles, half a million pistols, and numerous machine guns.
Virtually every home has a gun.

Besides SUBSIDIZED military surplus, the Swiss can buy other firearms easily too.
While long guns require NO special purchase procedures, handguns are sold only to those with a Waffenerwerbsschien (purchase certificate) issued by a cantonal authority.
A certificate is issued to every applicant over 18 who is not a criminal or mentally infirm.

There are NO restrictions on the carrying of long guns.
About half the cantons have strict permit procedures for carrying handguns, and the other half have NO rules at all.
There is NO discernible difference in the crime rate between the cantons as a result of the different policies.

Thanks to a lawsuit brought by the Swiss gun lobby, semi-automatic rifles require NO PURCHASE PERMIT and are NOT registered by the government.
Thus, the ONLY long guns registered by the government are FULL AUTOMATICS."

The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
Let's adopt THEIR LAWS !

Remember:

The beauty of the Second Amendment is
that it will not be needed
until they TRY to take it.

Read Second Amendment: It’s Not About Hunting, IT'S ABOUT TYRANNY .

[tumblindice]

I lost track of what’s happening in Connecticut over “assault weapon registration”:
http://www.jud.ct.gov/ji/criminal/glossary/assaultweapon.htm

following Sandy Hook, and can’t find anything more recent than last spring.
I’m guessing that the great state of Connecticut decided it couldn’t prosecute tens (hundreds) of thousands of lawful gun owners.
It’s like the recent SCOTUS decision by the lefty Supremes and Kennedy ruling that a lawful gun owner cannot purchase a lawful gun for a lawful gun owner: bovine scat.

[real saxophonist]

If I hit you in the head with a brick, have I not just ‘assaulted’ you with a ‘ weapon’?

[Billthedrill]

Check this out. From the article, the policies they want to apply are:

Require background checks for all gun sales

Present policy for dealer sales. Private sales, not happening.

Require dealers to report multiple sales of long guns

Present policy. They are required to report ALL sales of long guns. It's only supposed to be a background check but what do you know, the serial number is on it. Form 4473, Page 3, item 28.

Equalize interstate sales of long guns and handguns

Do what? "Equalize"? That's going to require increasing the sales of long guns quite a bit.

Require federal firearms licenses for individuals that manufacture guns using 3D printers

Chase the wind. You might as well "require" people who make guns out of pipe and broomsticks to have licenses. They won't.

Bar possession and use of machine guns by individuals under the age of 16

Present policy since 1986.

Require a permit for possession of assault weapons

There's no such thing.

This individual displays a broad, categorical ignorance of the field that would be breathtaking were it not all too common. You might as well place automobile legislation in the hands of someone who has never seen a car but hates them anyway and doesn't want anyone else to own one.

[Yosemitest]

I agree.
The quicker we get rid of liberal mentality, either by forcing them into fighting for FREEDOM overseas (attrition), or education from fighting for FREEDOM, the better off we'll be.

REMEMBER what Jesus said !

[rktman]

No doubt you will get some kick back on the Swiss issue. I’ve been there and done that. LOL!

[Noamie]

Articles says, “particularly dangerous guns.”

All I need to know when estimating the political party of the writer and his knowledge of guns. I stopped reading after that.

(Dem, zero)

[Yosemitest]

You think I give a damn about "kickback" ?

Tom Mullen wrote an article he titled False Prophets of Freedom.
While there's a lot of bias you have to weed out, there's a lot of truth to gleam out of it.

" ... there will be no “freedom movement” until Americans recognize and understand the nature of freedom and tyranny.
Until Americans cease to marginalize or ignore PROPERTY RIGHTS,
and again recognize them as the MOST important rights, as our founding fathers did,
we will not move one inch toward freedom.
In fact, even if we were able to completely end warfare for several presidential administrations in a row,
our practice of welfare would lead us right back to our present circumstances.

Do not look to your politicians to offer you Bastiat’s third alternative
[ 3. Nobody plunders anybody, {The Choice Before Us} ].
They have seduced free people throughout history with the prospect of sharing in LEGAL PLUNDER, while keeping the majority of THE LOOT for themselves.
It is left up to every American to reject the notion of LEGAL PLUNDER on their own, to reject the false prophets of freedom,
be they named McCain, Obama, Clinton, Dobbs, Paulson, Bernanke, or Roosevelt,
and again take responsibility for their own SELF PRESERVATION,
and thus regain THE RIGHT to determine it themselves.
This is the ONLY path to freedom. "

There's a lot more to that article that's worth reading.

[rktman]

LOL! Obviously not. I was only referencing the whole Swiss/every house has a machinegun issue. I got a note back from some Swiss citizens explaining the whole deal and it isn’t what a lot of people think. Good link for the False Prophets of Freedom. Thanks.

[Jack Hammer]

More illogical - and illegal - anti-gun crap from the same, old addled clowns.

[Secret Agent Man]

i can’t.

if they put as much effort into stopping violent criminals instead of disarming law abiding people the problem would be solved.