Posted on 07/31/2019 2:02:50 PM PDT by ransomnote
Newsom compared civilian rifles to nuclear weapons.
California Governor Gavin Newsom described commonly owned civilian semiautomatic rifles in sharp terms Monday, after one was used in a mass shooting in Gilroy, California.
Governor Newsom said that the semi-auto rifle was a “G** damn weapon of mass destruction.”
Santino Legan, 19, used a WASR10 semiautomatic rifle to kill 4 and wound 12 at a garlic food festival in northern California. The WASR10 is a “sporterized” AK-47 style rifle, a rough equivalent to the AK of an AR-15 to the military M16 rifle. Like the AR, it only has semi-auto fire capability, separating it from a true military-style assault rifle such as the AK-47 or M16.
The WASR10 is designated as an assault rifle under California law and banned, insofar as it includes a pistol grip and 30-round magazine. However, the shooter simply traveled to Nevada to buy a WASR from a Nevada gun shop, revealing the state’s laws to be simply ineffective when it comes to stopping malevolent and criminal individuals from buying rifles.
Speaking to reporters at a Santa Clara hospital, Newsom said that “you can’t put borders up, speaking of borders, to a neighboring state where you can buy this damn stuff legally. How in the hell is that possible? I have no problem with the 2nd Amendment, you have a right to bear arms but not weapons of goddamned mass destruction.”
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I really hate the propaganda push here.
The reason this story is getting so much press is because the mainstream media and the Left are pushing the “assault weapons” angle with it. If the guy had successfully killed more people (say, five) with a revolver, this story would have be minor national news.
So naturally only the government should have them.
More gun control on the way, I’m guessing.
They just can’t get enough of THAT drug.
*have been
My old Marlin model 60 could fire 18 rounds as quick as you could pull the trigger. Is it an assault rifle?
Wrong, Progressive Liberalism is the Weapon of Mass Destruction here, it is what created all these crazy democrats shooting people.
A California resident cannot buy a firearm in Nevada. The shooter had to have had a Nevada drivers license to purchase the rifle.
I have one of those, 40 years old now, Straightest shooting rifle I own, my scoped 30.06 is pretty damned close though
I’d read that he DID have a Nevada address.
My first gun was that model. Tubular magazine. Very nice.
Long gone now.
Rifles are not weapons of mass destruction.
Twenty kiloton atomic bombs are weapons of mass destruction.
Facts? We don’t need no steenkin’ facts.
The author really wrote this unintelligible claptrap. Sigh....
What this idiot governor and the media are ignoring is the fact a muzzie sympathizer was responsible.
But yeah. Lets all blame guns.
To the emotionally-out-of-control Left, being “outraged” over everything and anything is no longer enough ... public swearing is now necessary for normal people to see just how “upset” a Leftist is ... including most recently an America-hating congresscritter, an America-hating sports team captain and an America-hating governor.
“The WASR10 is designated as an assault rifle under California law and banned, insofar as it includes a pistol grip and 30-round magazine”
The WASR 10 runs a single stack magazine capable of holding 10 rounds, thus the 10 in WASR10. Idiots.
Nuisance will look good on a tree when the time comes.
Trashy language by a trashy governor.
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