Pennsylvania to classify PUMP-ACTION RIFLES as "Assault Weapons" (idiot legislators alert!)

AW ban sunset website forums ^ | 27 March 2004 | Pennsylvania legislators

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Prepare to have your blood pressure rise. Is there no end to the idiocy of those who live in abject fear of guns?

Wh, oh why, does no national leader call this for the nonsense that it is?

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This is getting totally out of control. by what reasonable standard of logic does something like this occur?

PA gunowners, take careful note, and everyone else watch out, because stuff like this tends to go national, especially if Fienswine/Schumer/Kennedy hear about it.

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The first full-power rifle I ever fired was my dad's Remington model 760 pump in .30-06. It was a fine firearm.

Funny, it had no bayonet lug, pistol grip, folding stock, flash supressor, threaded barrel, plastic parts, and the mag only held five rounds.

I had no idea it was an "assault weapon".

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BANG!

[joesnuffy]

The gun grabbers want to instill a 'fear of guns' upon the sheep...that they might steal them away....legally with the sheeps permission...

They socialist/3rd wayers do not want anyone to have the will or means of resistance to their NWO plans..

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I tend to agree with them. Why, just last week I personally assaulted ground squirrels with a .22 pump rifle.

[backhoe]

Dadgummit, I was hoping I could put this "issue" to rest... (sigh!) cross-link:

-Smart Guns / Foolish Legislators--The Assault Weapons Ban May Be Bush's Undoing--

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Things like that and this "pumpgun" ban sicken me with the stupidity dmonstrated.

It's amazing how, in the face of all the facts and evidence, that these people continue to push this nonsense.

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I read that article. How the author can show his face knowing that he 1. Is such a pansy-ass, and 2. Is so wretchedly uninfomed is beyond me.

[Travis McGee]

What the hell, why not just classify all multiple-shot centerfires as "assault rifles?"

What does logic have to do with anything?

"Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool!"

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"What the hell, why not just classify all multiple-shot centerfires as "assault rifles?"

All in good time. They're working on it.

Then, it'll be pump and auto shotguns, then .22s, then single-shots, then...

[backhoe]

I share your thoughts and feelings- I've been in the RKBA fight since circa 1968- when I was a teenager, and suddenly realized that these characters in the "we hate all arms" movement were dead-serious and dedicated.

Unfortunely, our side repeatedly makes the same mistake over & over- we think that once an issue ( like the AWB ) is settled, it's over.

The other side suffers no such handicap- they always fall back, regroup, and push again toward their goal. This is why you are seeing a sudden flurry of activity at state level.

I will tell you honestly that there have been times I've thrown up my hands in dispair and walked away from the fight, because there are so many gun users who simply don't "get it." I still run into people who shoot, hunt, what have you, who refuse to resist because their particular firearm is not targeted ( yet! ) by the antis. It is very frustrating.

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This is now, according to PA lgislators, an "Assault Rifle"...

Chilling, isn't it? I guess "sporting purposes" doesn't REALLY protect a rifle.

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Looks like the graboids ARE targeting their hunting rifles. Use this to illustrate it to them.

[KarlInOhio]

Any Pennsylvanians out there? Is this a serious bill, or is Representative Dan Frankel a kook who proposed a bill which has no real chance of passing.

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I think it's important to remember that, kook or not, the man who proposed this lunacy is still an ELECTED OFFICIAL, and furthermore, wasn't laughed out of his job for this.

Unless gunowners make their voices LOUD AND CLEAR when nonsense like this is proposed, it will continue until SOMETHING gets passed.

Then what you get is a definition of something BAD-sounding like "assault weapon" which is then infinitely modifiable, far easier than passing new bans.

[blackbart.223]

"What the hell, why not just classify all multiple-shot centerfires as "assault rifles?"

Don't give them any ideas.

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Here's a list of the morons who support this, and introduced it...

INTRODUCED BY FRANKEL, THOMAS, BISHOP, COHEN, CURRY, D. EVANS, HORSEY, JAMES, JOSEPHS, KIRKLAND, LEACH, MELIO, PISTELLA, ROEBUCK, ROONEY, STETLER, STURLA, WASHINGTON, WATERS, WEBER, WHEATLEY, WILLIAMS AND YOUNGBLOOD, MARCH 17, 2004

[GrandEagle]

A long time ago when the AW ban was first ushered in I saw a commentary somewhere that went something like this:
My grandfathers ownership of his old .22 rifle (because it holds more than 10 rounds) makes him a threat to the public safety and a terrorist while they give a guy (Arafat) who has made it his life's mission to kill innocents and blow up school bus loads of children the Nobel Peace prize.
The world has gone mad....

[Lancey Howard]

LOL, c'mon.
Pennsylvania is the epicenter of the "militia movement".
There may be a handful of scumbag Democrats from Philly and the other parasite nests (cities) who bring this kind of stuff up from time to time, but the kind of legislation you are talking about will never pass in Pennsylvania.

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So sadly true.

It's getting to be time for the NRA or SOMEONE to call for a "million GUNOWNER march" on Washington. Peacefully, of course.

If we show the jerks up there that there are MANY more of us than they think, and that we are normal citizens who DO vote, and live in ALL states, think what we can do.

Even if we're all unarmed THAT day, it'll at least make them think.