Posted on 04/22/2018 11:51:22 AM PDT by Simon Green
uhh the guy did not have an “assault rifle” nor did he have a “military grade weapon”. Moron.
My comment was a thought on why no one in waffle house was armed. They were all drunk.
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My ‘comment’ was strictly sarcastic.
Make it a requirement that politicians have at least one firing neuron.
What an apposite point! /s
You make a lot of assumptions, and seem to think that you know more and are smarter than anyone else. You also seem to think that you can see into the future.
You insist on using the term “assault weapon” because your favorite Hollyweirdos, libtard media anchors and your precious “sally soccer mom” tell you that you have to use a word that isn’t applicable.
Heller and McDonald didn’t use the term “assault weapon” because an “assault weapon” refers to a selective-fire weapon capable of semi-automatic and burst or fully automatic fire.
Heller explicitly, and in multiple places, outlines that the Second Amendment protects ALL weapons that are “in common use at the time.” The AR-15 and other modern sporting rifles clearly fit within that definition. Whether you and/or “sally soccer mom” like it or not.
You aren’t here crying about what may happen and rallying people to stand in the gap.
You are here screaming about the sky falling, crying “woah is me” and proclaiming how the ban is a done deal, the GOP is going to lose the House and President Trump is going to sign a ban on all semi-automatics.
To call you Eeyore would be kind.
Concern troll would be far more accurate.
A Democrat hating on Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms? Wow, what “news.”
The RATs don’t care about victims of gun (or any other) violence. They want to confiscate ALL firearms, period.
The government dictated '86 ban fixed the supply of full autos. Economics did the rest. Dealers aren't being "greedy", they're charging the market price under the circumstances, and why shouldn't they?
Drew68 is right. They will probably try to ban assault weapons, the Democrats and even some Republicans.
All true. But the fact remains that it "is" possible to buy and own fully automatic firearms.
Sure...but how expensive does government action need to make something before it effectively bans it?
“Never let a misfortune go to waste.”
I’m only going by a written, attributed statement issued by their corporate office.
Your mileage may vary....
"effective ban" isn't the point of my comment. I was talking about direct actions by government and matters of actual fact. The difference between "de facto" and "de jure" is huge IN LAW.
I don't like the current state of law, and would much prefer the law (or lack of law) that existed prior to the passage of the 1930's law.
Quite true, although any difference in terms of real-world results may be nonexistent. As someone else once observed, on a somewhat related subject, the power to tax is the power to destroy...
A belated “thank you” for information I didn’t have at the time I posted.
Thanks for the ping and your comments at post #29
“...o practical access to military-grade assault weapons,...”
Yes, and the other side KNOWS that. But it SOUNDS really “scary” to those inclined to pee down their own legs at the thought of an “evil assault rifle” anyway.
Try explaining that “AR” in AR15 actually means “Armalite Rifle” to a leftardnik sometime, then stand back and watch the confusion.
It just doesn’t register in their vapid, vacuous pea-brains.
Just don’t stand too close, because if it actually DOES penetrate the funk, the result will be as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Lnz64vXB8
“..hey want to confiscate ALL firearms, period....”
Correction:
They want SOMEONE ELSE to confiscate all firearms.
They’ll start running out of willing volunteers for that little task real fast.
I hate to say it, but the current owners of the company contribute to the confusion. When Mr. Westrom owned ArmaLite, the company website noted that 'AR means ArmaLite'. That is entirely consistent with the fact that ArmaLite has developed &/or marketed shotguns (AR-9 & AR-17), a handgun (AR-24), and other 'non-rifle' products (AR-22, etc.)...
AR simply means ArmaLite...
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