Rememeber, it was said Brady would not be passed either. But it got the midnight vote when no one was watching and we got the shaft.
My biggest fear is some real idiot shooting up a school/post office/mall/workplace with an AW and then the cry to ban them, PERMANANTLY, will be too loud to overcome.
I hope I am wrong.
..unless you live in the People's Republic of Kalifornia, where an even more restrictive assault weapon ban is in place. I have my defanged Bushmaster XR-15 already, but I can't even legally give it to my son as a inheritance. (No problem; my 15 yr. old son says he will eventually leave California ... he's already made that clear). I paid a 40% premium to get the gun "legally" 2 days before the ban went into effect a few years back.
Hmmm...35 states including Minnisota now have "right-to-carry" laws; Maybe it's time to start a CA referrendum to force the state to issue CCW permits. It'd fail, but watching the liberals scream and shout would be fun worth all the work.
FReegards, SFS
Black powder firearms are used occasionally for criminal purposes. Usually the cheaper revolver kind. I don't know of any 50 cal being used to commit a crime. However, there was a case in Denver a couple of years ago where a grocery store manager was murdered at work by a jealous estranged husband who had a barret (I think) and some other " assault" type firearms with him in his van. He chose to use a hand gun to do the killing. Killed the wrong guy too, the manager wasn't the one involved in an affair with his wife. I blame that killing mostly on the end result of a divorce in progress and infidelity though, not on guns.