North Carolina General Statute § 14-288.8 provides that it is unlawful for any person
to manufacture, assemble, possess, store, transport, sell, offer to sell, purchase, offer to
purchase, deliver, give to another, or acquire any weapon of mass death and destruction.
A weapon of mass death and destruction includes:
bombs of all sorts;
grenades;
rockets having a propellant charge of more than four (4) ounces;
a missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter (1/4) ounce;
mines;
any type of weapon (other than a shotgun or a shotgun shell of a type particularly suitable for sporting purposes) which will expel a projectile using an explosive, or other propellant, and which has a barrel with a bore of more than one-half (1/2) inch in diameter;
any firearm capable of fully automatic fire;
any shotgun with a barrel length less than eighteen (18) inches or an overall length of less than twenty-six (26) inches;
a rifle with a barrel length of less than sixteen (16) inches or an overall length of less than twenty-six (26) inches;
any muffler or silencer for any firearm, whether or not such firearm is included within this definition; and
any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting a device into any weapon described above, and from which a weapon of mass death and destruction may readily be assembled.
So I’m guessing he got stuck with :any shotgun with a barrel length less than eighteen (18) inches or an overall length of less than twenty-six (26) inches;
Finally some sensible descriptions of “weapons” capable of mass death and destruction.
Some woman at the Columbia Mall, Md. shooting site today said that she saw policemen with “semi-automatic weapons”.
Oh crap. Another TV brain-addled idiot. Learned a new “word” without knowing what it means. That is how the media corrupt the English language and turn people into jibbering idiots.
The other day I was kidding around with one of our security officers and asked him if the fact that our dog (son’s K9) farted in a closed room and raised the temperature one degree, would he be responsible for “Global Warming”?
He hasn’t stopped laughing yet.
The analogy is if a person is legally carrying a “semi-automatic” (handgun or 22 rifle), are they carrying a “Weapon of Mass Destruction” and/or an “assault weapon”.
Anyone who storms a building with a handgun is an idiot. The same for a 22 cal rifle. They are both semi-automatic but hardly for “assault”.
What I wrote above is just to point out how corrupted our English language/words are, perpetrated by lazy or incompetent reporters, news anchors, and Leftist propagandists.
Word have meanings and when used improperly, consequences.
It is time that we start calling these “misusers” to task and not let them get away with it, be it in the newspaper, on TV, or on the internet.
We are pretty sharp here at FR, so let’s use that “sharpness” of knowledge to cut these fools down to size.