Gun ban would protect more than 2,200 firearms

Associated Press ^ | Feb 16, 2013 6:29 PM (ET) | EILEEN SULLIVAN

[DJ MacWoW]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress' latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would protect more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle that is nearly identical to one of the guns used in the bloodiest shootout in FBI history.

One model of that firearm, the Ruger .223 caliber Mini-14, is on the proposed list to be banned, while a different model of the same gun is on a list of exempted firearms in legislation the Senate is considering. The gun that would be protected from the ban has fixed physical features and can't be folded to be more compact. Yet the two firearms are equally deadly.

[Caipirabob]

Gun ban would protect more than 2,200 firearms be declaration of open war.

Fixed it.

[Ken522]

So far - they haven’t gotten around to either the Garand nor the semi-auto M1A yet ....

[Vendome]

[mylife]

Yeah, it’s safe.
Out to 800 yards!!!

[SandRat]

They better bring the M.E. (Ducky from NCIS) with them.

[Vince Ferrer]

All it means is that there is a “loophole” of 2200 guns that they will eventually notice and try to ban those too.

[DJ MacWoW]

I certainly thought “shall not be infringed” to be VERY clear. But we know these commie press people don’t believe in the Constitution or our rights.

[Stosh]

One can always count on the AP for weasel-wording, especially in the headlines.

A ban bans stuff - it doesn’t protect anything. The constitution does the protecting; any legislation that includes a ban weakens that protection.

An honest headline would say “Proposed new legislation weakens constitutional protections on guns, leaving some 2200 specific guns more susceptible to further bans in the future”.

[xzins]

As a child of the cold war when I think of commies I think of “we will bury you “

[DJ MacWoW]

YUP!!

Furious at the December 1773 Boston Tea Party, Parliament in 1774 passed the Coercive Acts. The particular provisions of the Coercive Acts were offensive to Americans, but it was the possibility that the British might deploy the army to enforce them that primed many colonists for armed resistance. The Patriots of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resolved: “That in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by the strength of arms, our cause we leave to heaven and our rifles.” A South Carolina newspaper essay, reprinted in Virginia, urged that any law that had to be enforced by the military was necessarily illegitimate.

The Royal Governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, had forbidden town meetings from taking place more than once a year. When he dispatched the Redcoats to break up an illegal town meeting in Salem, 3000 armed Americans appeared in response, and the British retreated. Gage’s aide John Andrews explained that everyone in the area aged 16 years or older owned a gun and plenty of gunpowder.

Military rule would be difficult to impose on an armed populace. Gage had only 2,000 troops in Boston. There were thousands of armed men in Boston alone, and more in the surrounding area. One response to the problem was to deprive the Americans of gunpowder.

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[bigheadfred]

About 15 minutes after any ban is passed into law some damned liberal will show up screaming that it doesn’t ban enough.

And 16 minutes later...

[DJ MacWoW]

*gasp!* You want them to tell the TRUTH?!

It's against their beliefs.

[DJ MacWoW]

I found another one.

[oldasrocks]

We’re all going to have to get belt fed weapons.

[muir_redwoods]

I have a question for gunsmiths. Would it be technically feasible to design a firearm that could accept two magazines at the same time and feed from both so that a seven round limit could be mooted and the firearm would effectively hold one in the chamber and fourteen in the two mags?

[DJ MacWoW]

Obamas whole administration has been leading up to a war. He’s been divisive and labeled patriotic Americans as enemies of the state. He’s pushing.

[Repeat Offender]

Amen.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****Congress’ latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would protect more than 2,200 specific firearms,****

And if they get a ban on these firearms, before the ink is dry on the bill signing it into law, they will be back with a new list of demands.

It has always been about handguns. Assault rifles are just a decoy to try and get their anti-gun foot in the door.

Once they get a ban on AWs then they will use the same reasons to go after handguns.

John Kennedy killed with a 5 shot bolt action rifle.

Charles Whitman, killed 14, wounded 32 others mostly with a bolt action 6mm hunting rifle. Also used a shotgun and an m1 carbine.

Medgar Evers, shot with a 5 shot 1917 bolt action Enfield rifle.

Martin Luther King, shot with a 4 shot Remington 760 pump action Gamemaster rifle.

Bobby Kennedy with a .22 Iver Johnson Cadet revolver.

George Wallace wounded with a 5 shot Charter Arms .38spl revolver.

Howard Johnsons shooter killed nine, wounded thirteen with a 4 shot RUGER .44 mag Deerslayer rifle.

Gerald Ford attacked with a 7 shot 1911 semi auto.

Edmond OK post office with two National Guard 7 shot 1911 pistols.

Ronald Reagan and Jim Brady with an RG-14 .22 revolver.

What do they all have in common? NONE over 7 rounds, yet after each one came a cry of panic to ban all of them.

[kitchen]

As a child of the cold war when I think of commies I think of “we will bury you “

Also a child of the cold war and a YAFer from way back, I recall the Kill a commie for Mommy buttons we wore in school. Drove the poly sci teacher nuts.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Is my M1 Garand rifle safe?***

Only till a 7 round clip becomes the law of the land.