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Sen. Angus King Working on Gun Control for ‘Assault Rifles’
Breitbart ^ | 10/31/2023 | AWR HAWKINS

Posted on 10/31/2023 11:30:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Sen. Angus King (I-ME) is working on “assault rifle” gun control this week after a suspect with a sniper rifle shot and killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine.

The Portland Press Herald noted that King is not ready to reveal details about his gun control bill,

The Herald indicated King’s intention is to “ban the most dangerous and lethal aspects of military-style assault rifles.” King provided a clue into what these “aspects” of certain firearms might be when he spoke to KTLA and said, “I want to do what’ll work and to me, the most clear danger are these high capacity magazines.”

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KEYWORDS: assault; banglist; guncontrol; king; maine; rifles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

1. They’re not “assault rifles” by definition. Assault Rifles are capable of fully automatic fire. Modern sporting rifles are not.

2. Standard capacity magazines are 30 rounds. High capacity would be more than that but high capacity magazines have never been found to be a factor in murders with guns. It takes less than 2 seconds for anybody familiar with guns to change out a magazine. There is no indication magazine capacity was a factor in the shootings in Maine.


21 posted on 10/31/2023 11:54:16 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anus is making another empty gesture so that it seems like he’s doing something. He should be focusing on why the Maine shooter wasn’t disarmed given his mental health issues and family warnings to police. Would Anus feel better if the shooter had 10 round mags and had to reload three times?


22 posted on 10/31/2023 11:55:54 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I really wonder when was the last time that a resident of Maine was killed by a rifle that was firing on full auto? It may never have happened.


23 posted on 10/31/2023 11:57:22 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well here’s the bottom line. No cute boat accident stories.

Here’s the thing. This occupation DC government has allowed 8 to 10 million illegals in from all over the third world, they opened the prisons with mass release of violent criminals. They have ended bail requirements. They stole the 2020 and 2022 elections. They arrest and incarcerate anyone who calls it fraud. The FBI and DOJ are 100% DNC political wings and are fully corrupt. They unleash crazed drag queens on our children, BLM and Antifa on our streets to murder dozens of cops and do a couple of billion in damages.
They showed their fangs during covid. They have debased the currency to the point that an economic disaster is guaranteed. They have flooded in at least 5 million terrorist moslems since 9/11. They have us on the brink of WWIII with Russia and China and Iran.
They tear down monuments from my culture and speak of me in pre-genocidal terms. They flood the streets with fentanyl and anti-depressant addled mass murderers. They terrorize and arrest people praying near abortion clinics and going to school board meetings. Cartels, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Moslem Brotherhood all operate openly in America and attack elderly white men in traffic....

And you want my weapons of war and personal defense? GFY... come and take them.


24 posted on 10/31/2023 11:58:55 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: JBW1949

So my Mini 14 should be safe with wood furniture right? 😂👍

🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱👍


25 posted on 10/31/2023 12:11:43 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

Uh, I mean if I had any firearms. Yeah that’s it!


26 posted on 10/31/2023 12:12:37 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well any man named Angus has issues to start with but Mr King needs to go the way of the Dodo bird...quickly.


27 posted on 10/31/2023 12:13:25 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: dpetty121263
Well any man named Angus has issues to start with

Hey now...


28 posted on 10/31/2023 12:16:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

Still has that “military” look about it...

They’re comin’ to take it away...Ha ha, He he, Ho ho!!!!


29 posted on 10/31/2023 12:18:16 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey, Angus - I got yer ban fer ya right here!


30 posted on 10/31/2023 12:19:10 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I might consider a break point at 105 mm but probably not.


31 posted on 10/31/2023 12:19:31 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: FLT-bird

They’re not “assault rifles” by definition. Assault Rifles are capable of fully automatic fire. Modern sporting rifles are not.

The semantics game will not save us. They mean military style rifles with all the functions. Yes, a civilian AR-15 could be be easily substituted in military service with almost no loss of function. We will not win by parroting the assault rifle definition and “proving” that your Colt AR-15A4 is not select fire, and therefor, NOT an assault rifle.
As we spike the ball and think we win the debate, they will say, “yeah whatever, we want the AR you have.... whatever you want to call it”.

Hobbiests and shooters smugly declare victory when they want to ban 30 round clips. We ask about their en bloc clip and their AR Garand and think we won.
They couldn’t care less about lingo. They want the 30 round clips and the assault rifles and couldn’t care less what we call it.


32 posted on 10/31/2023 12:19:41 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Finally a nut case that knows how to shoot accurately!
Wait till you gun control idiots run into us sane guys that know how to shoot better and when to use our skills to the maximum.
Your police will be gone.


33 posted on 10/31/2023 12:21:02 PM PDT by rellic
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To: DesertRhino
They’re not “assault rifles” by definition. Assault Rifles are capable of fully automatic fire. Modern sporting rifles are not. The semantics game will not save us. They mean military style rifles with all the functions. Yes, a civilian AR-15 could be be easily substituted in military service with almost no loss of function. We will not win by parroting the assault rifle definition and “proving” that your Colt AR-15A4 is not select fire, and therefor, NOT an assault rifle. As we spike the ball and think we win the debate, they will say, “yeah whatever, we want the AR you have.... whatever you want to call it”. Hobbiests and shooters smugly declare victory when they want to ban 30 round clips. We ask about their en bloc clip and their AR Garand and think we won. They couldn’t care less about lingo. They want the 30 round clips and the assault rifles and couldn’t care less what we call it.

These people use language to deceive, not to communicate. You cannot let your enemy define the terms. So we must firstly REJECT their definitions and then point out how the things they want to ban will not be effective in stopping what they CLAIM they want to stop. Then we need to point out that since the bans they CLAIM will stop a certain harm will not do so and they know that, they must be wanting to impose bans and strip away citizen's rights for another reason.....

34 posted on 10/31/2023 12:23:49 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shall not be infringed.


35 posted on 10/31/2023 12:59:44 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: gundog

One that has bullets in it?


36 posted on 10/31/2023 1:03:56 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: DesertRhino

+1


37 posted on 10/31/2023 1:08:25 PM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
So, which is it. A “sniper rifle” or an “assault rifle”? An M-16 or a .308.

My first reaction, too. AWR Hawkins knows better than that. Was this article composed by an AI and not the man himself?

38 posted on 10/31/2023 1:09:32 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: FLT-bird

Doesn’t work like that. Other than hobby shooters, collectors, and enthusiasts, there is no functional difference between an assault rifle M-16, and a semi auto of the exact same pattern in AR semi style. Both are equally capable, and the semi auto shooter is probably to be feared even more.
Think of it this way. When they say they want to restrict how many bullets someone can buy, you don’t smugly sit there and think “Ha, I’m not a reloader”. And you don’t think you won because they didn’t say how many cartridges you may buy.

Nobody except hobbiests, knows or cares the difference between an official definition assault rifle, and a functionally identical AR-15. For them the difference is it best, academic. They want to take away the rifle somebody walks in with and does a mass murder in the night club. You won’t win a thing by convincing the public that it wasn’t a full auto, and therefore, not an assault rifle, and therefore, completely outside the balance of the discussion the politician is pushing. You win nothing.


39 posted on 10/31/2023 1:17:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: FLT-bird

If they say they want to ban M-14s, only a fool would roll their eyes and say “Ha, I have an M1A, you don’t even know the proper name of what you want to ban! Lol

Priggery will win us nothing except points among our friends.


40 posted on 10/31/2023 1:23:44 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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