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Libertarian VP Pick Weld: Rifles are “Weapons of Mass Destruction”
TheTruthAboutGuns.com ^ | August 7, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 08/11/2016 8:21:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Revolt TV interviewed former U.S. Attorney, former Massachusetts governor and current Libertarian vice presidential candidate William Weld. Chief Political Correspondent Amrit Singh asked Weld about his views on guns. Specifically, whether or not people on the government’s secret, unaccountable Terrorist Watch List should be able to purchase “assault rifles.” […]

“The five shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle; the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, and those are independent criminal offenses. That is when they become, essentially a weapon of mass destruction. The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR15.” […]
As governor of Massachusetts when the gun control laws mentioned were implemented, Mr. Weld should know that MA doesn’t ban “clips.” It bans ammunition magazines — commonly called “magazines.”

Mr. Weld should know that Massachusetts’ magazine capacity law contains no provision regarding a magazine’s insertion into a rifle. Simple possession is illegal. …

(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutguns.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; banglist; billweld; gunvote; rifles; thirdparty; wmd
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To: slouper

I was messing around with stripper clips...until my wife found out.


21 posted on 08/11/2016 8:44:00 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Too funny!

RE: “I was messing around with stripper clips...until my wife found out.”


22 posted on 08/11/2016 8:45:35 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Olog-hai

The stupidity of libs is only exceeded by their ignorance.


23 posted on 08/11/2016 8:45:41 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Olog-hai

Johnson/Weld was about the least libertarian ticket the Libertarian Party could have nominated.


24 posted on 08/11/2016 8:49:00 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Olog-hai

Lets compare how many people,dead from guns since 1973 and how many dead from abortion since 1973. Lets compare sacraments.

At least ours didnt have to be invented out of nothing as a constitutional guaranteed protected right.


25 posted on 08/11/2016 8:51:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai
And yet another pussy chimes in.

My God, how have we lasted this long ? !

26 posted on 08/11/2016 8:55:46 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: jospehm20

An anti gun libertarian has got to be the dumbest thing I have heard about in a while.


Well said!


27 posted on 08/11/2016 9:02:13 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Don't argue with a Liberal. Ask him simple questions and listen to him stutter)
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To: jospehm20

These clowns are not Libertarians. They also just came out as pro TPP too. Is Sharia Law Libertarian too Weld?


28 posted on 08/11/2016 9:05:53 PM PDT by PaleoCon Libertarian Hybrid
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To: Olog-hai

“The problem with handguns is probably even worse ...”

He’s right you know.
Handguns with the flux capacitor option will equal phased plasma weapons up to the 40 watt range in firepower.


29 posted on 08/11/2016 9:08:19 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m guessing he’s never been in the military.


30 posted on 08/11/2016 9:10:27 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: PaleoCon Libertarian Hybrid

“These clowns are not Libertarians”

That is my point.


31 posted on 08/11/2016 9:10:36 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Olog-hai
I didn’t even want to vote for that tool when we were Republicans.
32 posted on 08/11/2016 9:11:12 PM PDT by RichInOC (Trump 2016: Not The Hero We Need, But The Hero We Deserve.)
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To: jospehm20
"An anti gun libertarian has got to be the dumbest thing I have heard about in a while"

you took the words out of my mouth.
This is good news for Trump. In my opinion.

33 posted on 08/11/2016 9:17:27 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: tumblindice

How effective is it in trimming nose hairs at 50 yards, though?


34 posted on 08/11/2016 9:18:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
“The five shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle; the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, and those are independent criminal offenses. That is when they become, essentially a weapon of mass destruction. The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR15.” […]

When I take the pin out of my AR-15 it does not become fully automatic, it does not fire. My AR does not have a clip, it has a magazine. This man is an idiot and only parrots phrases he has heard. The phrases are lies.

ps
The last I heard the standard magazine not clip in a military rifle "m4" is 30 rounds and is not a clip,

35 posted on 08/11/2016 9:20:15 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Weld had a “Vulcan Mind Meld,” unfortunately it was with a liberal idiot.


36 posted on 08/11/2016 9:22:35 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: cpdiii

Don’t forget it “fire(s) more shells” with the “clip” attached. Gotta watch out for those ballistic mollusks.


37 posted on 08/11/2016 9:22:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

38 posted on 08/11/2016 9:24:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rockrr
I was messing around with stripper clips...until my wife found out.

I told mine it was a magazine, "Scientific America," and all was well.

39 posted on 08/11/2016 9:25:07 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Olog-hai

No, POLITICIANS are weapons of mass destruction (and corruption).


40 posted on 08/11/2016 9:26:11 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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