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The guy who coined the term "assualt weapon", Josh Sugarmann of the "Violence Policy Center" did the left a solid by coming up with the catchy term that actually has no meaning.

This time around, the Dems are once again shooting themselves in the foot by pandering to the AWFULs (Affluent White Female Urban Liberals), and hoping that gun owners won't notice.

This is dumb. It's hard to get gun owners to vote sometimes, but when we perceive that our rights are under active threat, we become the most motivated of voters.

1 posted on 07/31/2022 1:12:16 PM PDT by absalom01
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“Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over
fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons
—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine
gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on
these weapons.”
– Josh Sugarmann


32 posted on 07/31/2022 6:14:27 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotl)
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Did you know that a musket is a weapon of war? Did you know that there is not an army in the world that uses an AR 15 as its rifle?


33 posted on 07/31/2022 6:48:10 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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NO chance? Remember the ‘red flag’ vote? The FIFTEEN Republicans who allied with the ‘rats? Never say never.


36 posted on 07/31/2022 6:56:40 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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“The guy who coined the term “assualt weapon”, Josh Sugarmann of the “Violence Policy Center”

Actually “assault rifle” is the English translation of the German word “sturmgewehr”.


38 posted on 07/31/2022 7:02:15 PM PDT by Jim Noble (I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains)
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They don’t care if it costs them votes if they can pass it. They know they will get back in to power again and they control the bureaucrats. It is one step closer to their ultimate goal of “disappearing” we deploreable enemies.


39 posted on 07/31/2022 7:09:44 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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