Posted on 09/02/2019 2:26:24 PM PDT by mplc51
Old Uncle Joe needs an intervention.
2020 Democrat hopeful Joe Biden said on Monday during a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that the US government needs to ban “magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them.”
But Biden wasn’t done with his attacks on the 2nd Amendment in the wake of the mass shooting in Texas.
Biden then claimed that banning magazines and banning “assault rifles” (hint: there is no such thing as assault rifles) is “no violation of the Second Amendment.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
“That’s funny. Those bullets ain’t going too far without some burning gunpowder pushing them down a gun barrel. Bullets are the projectile.”
And you better have some in your gun or you are shooting blanks.
That’s a civilian website. I was a 12B for seven years—six years of that time in combat platoons. We never called it an assault rifle. Drill sergeants didn’t call them assault rifles. While instructing in a leadership school, I didn’t call them assault rifles. The M-16 was simply referred to as a rifle, a weapon or an M-16. Granted, even the Army has incorporated some civilian documents in its libraries, including a few minor civilian errors in those documents.
I carried an M-203 for several years and didn’t call it an assault rifle with a grenade launcher. The M-60 that I carried for a year was not an assault machine gun. We didn’t call our anti-tank weapons assault anti-tank weapons. I didn’t call our demolition ordnance assault demo.
Assault was most often used as a verb to refer to training tasks or missions. One exception was the use of the phrase, air assault to describe a school involving helicopters, but even that phrase was an allusion to an action—a type of mission.
Basic firearm safety starts with owner, proper training
By KYLE HODGES/Fort Knox Public Affairs officeMarch 11, 2016
https://www.army.mil/article/164048/basic_firearm_safety_starts_with_owner_proper_training
“As an example of a myth, America’s most popular rifle—the AR-15—is often portrayed as being something it is not. Probably one of the more popular myths is that the “AR” stands for ‘assault rifle’ or ‘automatic rifle.’ It actually stands for ‘Armalite Rifle,’ after the company that developed it in the 1950s.”
Dianne Feinstein and many other anti-Second-Amendment politicians have also erroneously referred to them as “assault rifles.” The word, assault, is the problem in the propaganda.
As with other tools, Rifles can be used for defense or other purposes not including assaults. Law-abiding owners of AR-15s have no intention of assaulting anyone during peacetime.
Do you own an assault bat? Or an assault hockey stick? How about an assault lamp? You can use lots of things to assault someone.
California requires that all firearm transactions take place through a Federal Firearms Licensee. What could possibly be wrong with that?
I'll tell you.
One: the anti-gunners will do everything in their power to shut down legal gun dealers and prohibit anyone from opening up a gun store. They will outlaw gun shows on public property. They will mandate a myriad of regulations for gun dealers to observe regarding signage, testing, record-keeping, hands-off displays, security, and advertising. They will use zoning laws to prevent opening new gun dealerships.
Two: They will use the bureaucratic machinery created for dealerships to tack on additional record-keeping charges, waiting periods, rosters of permitted guns, abitrary definitions of prohibited guns, and limits on purchases.
Three: They will expand the use of firearm background checks to include purchase of ammunition, effectively banning internet mail order sales.
Four: They will expand the causes of official disarmament and use the firearm registration system they created to raid firearm owner's homes and confiscate their guns.
Five: They will burden the prospective gun owner with licensing requirements that change from year to year and which expire periodically, costing the consumer even more money than already spent on the prior infringements. They will also include requrements for "approved gun storage" devices. Gun manufacturers will find themselves supplying gun locks with every gun. This will result in every gun owner with a safe having a bag full of useless gun locks. Useless, in part, because only new locks may be used to take home a gun. You can't use one from your bag of useless locks.
Six: Since the state is already prepared to register all guns, the state will mandate that all personally made firearms must be marked to government standards with a government issued serial number and registered with the state.
Seven: The complexity of all the regulations above will result in even more gun dealers going out of business. Many of those who remain in business will refuse some legal transactions because they know it is only the ignorance of the legislature which has allowed such transactions to occur. Those dealers don't want trouble with the bureaucrats. This is the reason that I deal almost exclusively with a dealer sixty miles from my home. That means I end up making two one-hundred and twenty mile trips for each purchase due to the ten-day "cooling off period". After all, the state wouldn't want me to use a new gun to commit a crime. Nevermind that I already own guns AND THEY KNOW THAT. I still have to wait ten days.
Seven: Having implemented a roster of acceptable guns, the state will then begin adding additional features that must be present to make a gun acceptable. Two of those features are a magazine disconnect so that the gun can't fire with the magazine removed. The other is a loaded chamber indicator so that a person might think a gun is unloaded without checking the chamber. The state has also mandated that future guns mark ejected casings using microscopic features on the firing pin, a capability not available in the marketplace.
The State of California would claim that nothing in this entire mess is an "infringement" of the right to keep and bear arms. With our new anti-gun Governor, they are just getting started.
If someone in Odessa is reading this, please inform the Chief.
Joe; If you want to ban magazines that can hold a lot of bullets in them, then start with what is left of Newsweek and TIME. Next, the NY Times and Wash. Post, “Full Metal Jacket” containers.
Some office REMFs have called them assault rifles when speaking of contractor or supply ordnance issues. And maybe some JAG REMFs when referring to U.S. Code passed by anti-Second-Amendment politicians. But 11B and 12B soldiers call it a “weapon” or “rifle.” 11Bs are not trained anywhere to call it an assault rifle.
Those publications hold a lot of bull$#!t, not bullets.
Actually the PHONY term “assault weapon” was simply MADE UP by THE NEW YORK TIMES & the company’s STYLE GUIDE defines an “assault weapon” is “ - - - - an object that can be used to commit a criminal assault.”
(The obvious INTENT is to DECEIVE the unwary sheeple.)
That’s a HAMMER, a ROCK, a KNIFE, a BOMB, a motor VEHICLE, a FIREARM and/or even a piece of PIPE or LUMBER.
Btw, the Style Guide defines a “pit bulldog” as “ - - — a canine that can damage a property AND/or is a threat to persons.”
In case you’ve wondered where the NY SLIMES gets all those “scary sounding statistics”, now you know!!
Trust anything that the NY TIMES claims at your PERIL, as the “newspaper” LIES more than they tell the truth. - The NY TIMES makes ISVESTIA of the old USSR look HONEST.
Yours, TMN78247
Bottom line, "assault rifle" was not invented by the gun grabbers. It was, and still is an actual real thing. The article was wrong.
"Assault Weapon": Made up term by gun grabbers.
"Assault Rifle": Real term used for a long time in the military.
Slow Joe doesn’t understand how water boils.
AIT stands for advanced initial training. I went through OSUT, total control for the whole 13 weeks.
The intent of assigning a new category LABEL to black rifles is to eventually argue in court that those devices are not “ARMS”, as stated in the 2nd amendment. They are gravitating toward the new, bizarro world definition of of being WMDs.
I camm for banning magazines with Michelle Obama on the cover. But that’s just me...
Gotta find a single-bullet mag before they’re all gone...
Right there is your problem a riffle isn't even a gun it is a card shuffle. 😀
There will be a day when we have Ray Guns and the left will try to govern or outright ban light beams.
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