Bill Ruger didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. It's the same as when a Freeper says, "I don't know why they are after the Barrett .50 when my [fill in the blank] does as much damage". He didn't understand why they wanted to ban the guns when all they had to do was ban the high capacity magazines.
Bottom line is the libs wrote the law to ban military guns and the Mini-14 didn't look like a current military weapon no more than the M1A did.
thanks to both of you.
seems any common military ammo is also on the hit list... my guess it is because the rounds are cheap and plentiful. if they can't keep the guns away.. maybe they can control the ammo... ?
and who would even want a semi if you can't have at least a 30 rnd clip? might as well go for a bolt then...
it's all hog wash..
btw... the mini was my anniversary present from the hubby this year! LOL
It's much worse than that. All of the major gun control legislation, including the GCA1968, were sponsored by the American arms industry. Each was supported by the industry and SAAMI as short sighted protectionism. Colt was not a member of SAAMI, Ruger was (and is). The GCA1968 was written by, and sponsored by SAAMI, then passed to Senator Thomas Dodd as a means to keep WWII surplus weapons from being imported and competing against the American arms industry. I have documentation if anyone is interested.
The "Assault Weapon" and "High Capacity Magazine Ban" restrictions were written by the National Shooting Sports foundation, the parent of SAAMI. Draft copies of the proposal were circulated within the arms and ammunition industry before it was handed to Senator Finstein. I saw copies of them. Does anyone really believe that the senator from California wrote them? The Mini-14 was deemed a good gun and the Colt AR-15 a bad gun, simple by virtue of SAAMI membership. The guns are identical in function. The true purpose was to keep SKS's and semi-auto AK-47's from being imported. None of the SAAMI members sold weapons with 20 or 30 shot magazines.
Their short sightedness let the genie out of the bottle and they now don't have the means to put it back.