[rarestia]

This article is a very well-written piece on the state or fate of the nation prior to the full-force of the Assault Weapons Ban put forth by Clintoon. I think it provides the opportunity to freshen up on our history of firearm ownership in this country, as we are, no doubt, in for quite a fight if or when the Dims take back the Government.

[hang 'em]

Senator Kennedy: "Are you going to make a recommendation to us to ban the manufacturing and production and the distribution of those weapons in the United States?"

Once again Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

[Bingo Jerry]

Ted Kennedy? A Buick is an assault weapon for that guy.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

I think that we are in quite a fight with the pubbie demos in the Government. Republican is the name of a political party and has little or nothing to to with their preferred form of governance. Democracy is the rule of fools by fools and nothing keeps a Republican from being a fool.

[digger48]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5854686068870249151

[digger48]

One cool clip if you can view it!

[TexasRepublic]

Gun control is truely about one thing: Liberals and other enemies of freedom are fearful of a public rightly enraged by Liberal policies.

[JamesP81]

The term "assault" rifle is really a misnomer

Strictly speaking, an assault rifle is a select fire rifle or carbeine that fires a medium sized projectile.

Banning such weapons as M4s is stupid. A bolt action winchester, which even liberals don't feel threatened by, chambered in 7mm weatherby magnum, possesses twice the effective range, more than double the accuracy, and more than three times the destructive power per shot as compared to an M4 or AK-47. The 7mm WM cartridge will shoot through both sides of the best kevlar vest at 400 yards range. This cartridge was introduced in the 1940s, and there are quite a number of hunting cartridges much older than have equal or even greater firepower.

And yet, the libs feel threatened by these cheap rifles shooting low-medium power cartridges. The truth is that compared to rifles at large, AK-47s and M4s have very low firepower per shot.

[holymoly]

The primary fact is that a true "assault weapon" is a military firearm which can be fired either "automatically" (many shots per trigger pull) or "semi-automatically" (one shot per trigger pull).

Wrong.

An "assault rifle" is a weapon chambered for a cartridge of reduced size/power, and which is capable of both semi-automatic AND fully-automatic fire. Both the term "assault rifle", and it's definition, come from the German "Sturmgewehr".

There is no such thing as a "true assault weapon".  "Assault weapon" is a propaganda term, used by anti-gun zealots, to demonize any firearm they don't like, including both rifles and hand guns.

The terms "assault rifle" and "assault weapon" are not interchangeable.

In other words, a true assault weapon is a machine gun

Wrong again.

There is a reason the USMC Fact Files lists the M16 as a "rifle", and not as a "machine gun". That's because it isn't a "machine gun".

[JamesP81]

Why would the military want to switch from a more powerful cartridge to a less powerful one, as it has done?

Because those lighter rifles with weaker bullets are very reliable, inexpensive, lightweight, and the ammunition is lightweight.

[Ancesthntr]

In 1994, the U.S. Congress voted to ban scores of semi-automatic firearms. While the author of this ban, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), claimed the law would only ban 19 types of firearms, other government officials dispute this claim.

Actually, the law only banned the new production of certain rifles and magazines for purchase by civilians. Not one single firearm that was already in existence was banned (hence the market for "pre-ban" rifles and magazines).

This means that if a person fails to register a common hunting shotgun or rifle (not realizing that their gun is covered by the generic definitions in the bill) they will become a criminal and could lose their gun rights forever.

The federal AWB never required the registration of any firearm.

Good article, which should be republished from time to time to remind us of the bad old days, but the inaccuracies need to be pointed out.

By the way, if we ever get a new version of the AWB, rest assured that there will be no grandfathering - it'll just be a confiscation, like in NJ. That is why the likes of Shrillary can never be permitted to become President.