Posted on 12/25/2012 1:40:55 PM PST by grundle
Washington Metropolitan Police Department is investigating whether NBCs David Gregory violated D.C. gun laws when he displayed what he described as a 30 round magazine as part of an interview during Sundays Meet the Press.
So heres a magazine for ammunition that carries 30 bullets. Now isnt it possible that if we got rid of these, if we replaced them and said well, you can only have a magazine that carries five bullets or ten bullets, isnt it just possible that we could reduce the carnage in a situation like Newtown? show moderator Gregory asked Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association.
Possessing a large capacity ammunition device, such as a magazine, is illegal in the District of Columbia if the device holds more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The code also specifies the large devices are illegal regardless of whether or not they're attached to a firearm. Gregory showed the magazine Sunday without a firearm attached.
NBCs studios, from which Meet the Press is broadcast, are located within city limits. The network did not respond to CNNs requests for comment.
In the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, gun control advocates have been pushing for a limit on high capacity magazines. Such a restriction is one of the items President Barack Obama mentioned last week when he announced an administration effort to curb violence.
I dont believe thats going to make one difference, LaPierre told Gregory during the show.
Several conservative commentators first raised the issue of whether Gregory had broken D.C. law by using the magazine.
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It doesn’t matter what the law is, nothing will come of it. Gregory will do the two step and the government will dance too and just like all the other lawbreaking done by the Dems , in time it will be forgotten like Algore’s e-mails
Conservatives wouldn’t sign the petition. But just the fact that the petition exists is hilarious.
This is what the power of politics is all about; it’s the ability to protect your friends, and punish your enemies.
Until the right learns to inflict grief on liberal activists, simply for opposing its core principles, the slide into tyrany will continue unabated.
The left gave up rational debate a long time ago. It does not serve their interests. When they engage in it today, it is as a tactic to get their opposition to restrain itself...not as a principle of civilized conflict resolution.
Did I have the rounds/positions/distances correct?
It has been 45 years, so the memory is a bit foggy.
Pre-qual day I had good day, a 241. I was hoping for qual day to be bad weather so I’d have the 241 for the record. On qual day we had snow!
Parris Island, SOUTH CAROLINA! SNOW!?
Had to blow snow out of the rear sight before firing. And they counted our qual day scores.
Ugh-—213
I did like firing the M-14, though.
Maybe because the jerk is a global communist and be better in jail than on television? He helped make the laws he broke.
Can not be repeated enough.
I would imagine regular training and drilling would completely nullify any BS law regarding magazine size.
It's a lot easier to get a real magazine, than it is a prop. I didn't even know there were "prop" AR magazines you could buy.
It's a lot easier to get a real magazine, than it is a prop. I didn't even know there were "prop" AR magazines you could buy.
You’d think a search warrant for office and home would AT LEAST be justified.
I’d LMAO if they found he possessed illegal and/or unregistered firearms ...
“Point out his hypocrisy all you want but if we push for enforcement of an unconstitutional law it diminishes our position.”
Because that law has yet to be ruled unconstitutional, that’s why. Your saying it is unconstitutional doesn’t necessarily make it so.
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