[FairOpinion]

I hope Congress will do the right thing.

[dts32041]

You mean like not passing CFR, or increasing funding for the NEA, or not adding pork to spending bills, or not getting their $5,000 pay raise.

When will you learn that members of congress are slave masters and they want to control everything their slaves wish to do?

[The Red Zone]

Also, Steve Lenkart, spokesman for the Virginia-based International Brotherhood of Police Officers – the largest police union in the AFL-CIO – told the Times-Picayune newspaper that a recent shooting at a New Orleans high school proves the ban should remain in effect. A semi-automatic AK-47-type rifle manufactured in China in 1991 was used April 14 to kill a McDonogh Senior High School student. Though a handgun was also used in the shooting, in which three other students were wounded, the rifle has garnered more attention. It was legal to import the rifle in 1991, but isn't today.

(1) Police officers tend to be in favor of citizen arming, when the question arises. It's the looie-leftist management that opposes it.

(2) Would not some other gun have sufficed to commit the same crime? E.g. a common hunting rifle? Why single out this gun as "evil" as though it aimed itself at the victim and pulled its own trigger.

[vannrox]

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Any lawmaker who votes to reauthorize the current ban against so-called "assault weapons" risks losing gun owners' votes forever.

"...The result of the fight to sunset the gun ban could set the tone for the next decade, if not century, and we intend to win it," says a statement issued by the coalition. "We are putting every politician on notice: Vote for reauthorization, and you lose gun owners' votes forever. This vote is, indeed, the line in the sand...."



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[ought-six]

Michael Barnes knows full well that the semi-automatics his noxious group is all for banning are NOT assault weapons. Assault rifles can fire on FULL AUTOMATIC, and they have been banned since the 1930s. Barnes and his ilk are frauds of the basest sort. They want to ban ALL firearms from private ownership. They want only the elite and the "authorities" to have firearms. That's despotism in all its ugliness.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang

[Atlas Sneezed]

This group, this effort, are the real thing. I see names in this article that tell me that these are not activist-hobbyists, nor are they well-connected compromisers worried about getting invited to the next DC cocktail party.

Watch this group, and help them. They have a real plan, and are taking serious steps to succeed.

[RetiredNavy]

You would think that the pro-gun groups would at least know the difference between a SKS and an AK 47.