Posted on 09/10/2019 10:32:10 PM PDT by conservative98
Sen. Cruz said during the debate that the Grassley-Cruz legislation would have helped prevent the mass shooting in Odessa, Texas.
Milano then quoted former President Ronald Reagan, suggesting that Republicans have supported gun control the past. Reagan said:
I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen to own guns for sporting, for hunting, and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for the defense of the home.
Cruz fact checked Milano’s use of the Reagan quote, saying “Machine guns are functionally illegal right now.”
The Texas senator added, “the machine gun has been functionally illegal for 80 years, you and I can’t purchase a machine gun.”
Sen. Cruz also fact checked the notion that an assault weapon ban would help reduce gun violence, noting that when America had an assault weapons ban, the ban did not have a “material” impact on gun violence.
“If we can agree the objective is to keep people safe,” then Congress should push for Grassley-Cruz, Sen. Cruz charged.
Guttenberg said he could support Grassley-Cruz if it does complete the objectives he laid out during the debate.
Sen. Cruz also added that many leading Democrats, including former Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), have called for national gun confiscation via a gun buyback program.
After the debate, Cruz said that his debate with Milano and Guttenberg was “productive and respectful” and that legislation such as Grassley-Cruz could help solve the problem of gun violence.
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There are useful idiots and then there is Alyssa, who only meets 50% of the criteria.
Watching now, remember ONE thing.... she is an ACTRESS! DRAMA!!!!!!!!!
Is she ever going to SHUT UP?
“The Texas senator added, “the machine gun has been functionally illegal for 80 years, you and I can’t purchase a machine gun.”
Actually Senator Cruz could as he lives in Texas. I’m disappointed he didn’t know that.
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He did say *functionally* illegal....
The grieving father CANNOT be objective in discussing this subject.
Ted Cruz, gun grabber.
“He did say *functionally* illegal....”
That’s a null phrase. They’re either illegal or they’re not. Yes, the process is expensive, not available at all to some law abiding citizens due to state laws, is cumbersome, and all that.
But it’s not illegal. Cruz is smarter than that. I’d have pointed out that there are thousands and thousands of legally owned machine guns in private hands right now. I’d have also pointed up that only one of them has ever been used in a crime and that was a cop who murdered his wife using his Department issued weapon.
Education on this issue is key. Cruz had a chance to do it and he blew it.
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Agree with your assessment but to Sen Cruz’s point, in addition to the federal controls regarding machine guns, states can and some do, ban private ownership of machine guns.
I applaud Senator Cruz, this is the way to engage the left on policy, get them in a debate, be respectful of them, but tear their arguments apart...
BS. All it takes is a boat load of money and a $200 stamp from the FERAL Government
Please tell me the technical, engineering reason why a full-auto M-16 costs at least an order of magnitude more than a semi-auto AR-15 on the legal, citizen market in these United States.
The Democrats have believe that taking away peoples guns reduces violence. I would then suggest that the police should go to the south side of Chicago and confiscate the guns of the criminals who treat their neighborhood like their own shooting range.
Do it for a year then report on whether gun crimes expanded or retracted. Do the same for Baltimore.
It should be noted that as more and more “Laws”* were enacted the problems steadily became WORSE.
These laws only serve to make it safer for the assailants and disarm the victims.
Our real problem is not the tools used to assault, it is the attitude that assault is permitted by the criminals peers.
*My tag-line
Machine guns are NOT “Functionally Illegal”!
There are a LOT of them in TX.
To my knowledge there have been three NFA items used to commit murder over several decades.
The most recent was a suppressor - civilian owned.
Drug dealer murdered by a cop using a department MG, which he was not authorized to posses.
MG used by a lawyer to commit murder.
MG used by another lawyer to rob a casino at Lake Tahoe, no injuries.
Am I the only one seeing a pattern here?
Artificial scarcity.
Prior to the ‘86 “Voice vote” screw-job amendment to the FOPA there was no real difference beyond the $200 tax stamp.
Now a $2.00 assembly of three small parts is >$18,000.00 just because it was made and registered before the cut-off date.
It’s call a DIAS - Drop In Auto Sear.
You’re both absolutely correct.
And that is why although it is still legal to purchase a machinegun, in practical terms it is impossible for 99% of the population … and the impossibility is for legal reasons, not engineering reasons.
That is a de-facto ban.
Secondly, you have to change your safety to a 3 position
Thirdly, you need to install a full auto block to automatically release the sear.
The cost difference was created by the 1986 ban. To "legally" own a FA weapon it must be manufactured before 1986.
So I guess the answer to your question is the law created a shortage for the private citizen to be able to acquire FA weapons. To build them the price is negligible.
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