Iraqis can keep their assault rifles

Orange County Register ^ | June 1, 2003 | Edmund L. Andrews

[fightinJAG]

U.S. retreats from previous policy. Military officials have said it's hard to disarm people who fear for their safety.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ

[steplock]

I got as far as:
"...what had been a much tougher plan to rid postwar Iraq of heavy weapons..." when refering to allowing Iraqi's to keep their AK's.

Gotta hate the left-wing radical extremists ... who haven't the slightest idea of reality - nor of what constitutes "Heavy Weapons"

An AK-47 is NOT.

[American in Israel]

U.S. retreats from previous policy. Military officials have said it's hard to disarm people who fear for their safety.

This is as far as I got. Wish they would apply this in the United States. Seems Iraq is more free now.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang

[Lurker]

Dontcha just love irony?

L

[Euro-American Scum]

In a significant retreat from U.S. efforts to seize weapons held by Iraqi citizens, U.S. and British officials said Saturday that Iraqis would be allowed to keep AK-47 assault rifles in their homes and businesses.

Nice to know the Second Amendment is alive and well somewhere.

[tet68]

Iraqis will still be allowed to keep handguns, rifles and shotguns. But the new instructions contain a lengthy list of much heavier weapons that would be prohibited to most people: machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, shoulder-fired missiles, antiaircraft guns, mortars, land mines and grenades.

Start 'em on that slippery slope early on eh?

[Epasonic]

Most people I have found seem to believe that any automatic weapons are "Heavy". This I believe is due to their unavailability to the general US public, and the under education about firearms by most US citizens.

I believe this move is merely to save face. An AK47 can be purchased for about $20 American in that area, and a complete ban would be completely uninforcable.

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

[mvpel]

But Citizens of the State of California can't. How interesting.

[tpaine]

Iraqi irony.

-- Ali the goatherder can now possess a rifle absolutely prohibited to any of the citizens of the late great state of CA..

[El Gato]

In a significant retreat from U.S. efforts to seize weapons held by Iraqi citizens, U.S. and British officials said Saturday that Iraqis would be allowed to keep AK-47 assault rifles in their homes and businesses.

It's only a "retreat" from what the media reported, not from what CENTCOM announced over a week ago two days after the announcement in "general terms" and well before any "heavy criticism from many Iraqis", not to mention more important criticism by American citizens/voters, could possibly have built up and been communicated back to CENTCOM.

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20030587.txt

The New York Slimes again.

[Batrachian]

Yes, but in CA they have transgender toilets.

Just a case of different priorities, I guess.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It's interesting that the people of Iraq have more second amendment rights than Americans. The AK-47's that they get to keep are FULL AUTOMATIC while we poor Americans can only own SEMI-AUTO rifles.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[Imal]

How encouraging that Iraqis will be spared from the tyranny that has been visited upon Americans.

God bless Iraq.

[TERMINATTOR]

Gotta tow the party line... "rights" are GRANTED by the gov, doncha know! "Scary" arms are excluded from "shall not be infringed". (/sarcasm) It's interesting to note, that Iraqui's are only "allowed" to KEEP (some) arms under this scheme, not to BEAR them.

The saddest part is that many so called "Second Amendment supporters" beleive in "reasonable restrictions", and that only (certain) "guns" are covered under the Second Amendment. What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear ARMS shall not be infringed" do they not understand?

Militia - Got Liberty?

[frosty snowman]

*BUMP*

[fightinJAG]

Good info.

[voteconstitutionparty]

That's just great! The Iraqis get to keep their assult weapons,but we don't. The Iraqis get to be more free than we here in the land of the free. Write President Bush,and tell him what you think about his support for the assult weapons ban.