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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: Olog-hai
Weld is a disaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLjWsRXFcTw

61 posted on 08/12/2016 1:44:13 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: jospehm20

Sad thing is many clueless pro gun libertarians swear by those fools Gary and his Obama endorsing VP.

I swear, many libertarians out there are all pot fantasy, just into story telling make believe like islamists or liberals


62 posted on 08/12/2016 1:54:55 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Olog-hai

At one time, the jaw bone of an ass was a weapon of mass destruction. My how times have changed.


63 posted on 08/12/2016 2:01:15 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: rockrr

Did you misspell “clips”?


64 posted on 08/12/2016 2:45:57 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: Paleo Pete

All that is needed to own a fully automatic weapon is an FFl.


65 posted on 08/12/2016 3:12:22 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Olog-hai
Gov. Weld - LiberStatistarian VP candidate 2016
66 posted on 08/12/2016 3:19:42 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh my God he’s on to us, he knows about the clips and....THE PIN!!!!
Game over now!


67 posted on 08/12/2016 3:31:27 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: jughandle

He Knows?

HE KNOWS!

DAMN,WE ARE FINNISH !


68 posted on 08/12/2016 4:30:10 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Olog-hai

What do you expect from someone from Massachusetts. He’s probably never even heard of Wyoming.


69 posted on 08/12/2016 5:04:12 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Olog-hai
A clip is not a magazine
And a mag is not a clip
And neither is a grip a stock
And stock does not mean grip
Things would be much clearer
And quicker to be seen
If we could bring ourselves to say
Exactly what we mean.

--Jeff Cooper

70 posted on 08/12/2016 6:00:01 AM PDT by W. (The right-wing Tony Soprano, Jr., in disguise. [Hell, I wish!])
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To: Olog-hai

This is weird. Libertarians are normally rabidly pro second amendment supporters. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who claims to have libertarian leanings that wasn’t even more forceful about it than GOA. Guess it kinda of points up the fact that this ‘libertarian’ campaign is really just a republican sponsored attack on Trump.


71 posted on 08/12/2016 7:17:14 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“That is not a normal “libertarian” view on guns. That’s freaking warped.”

Where have you been? The commies took over the Libertarian party back in the 1990s, after Harry Browne gave up and died on us.


72 posted on 08/12/2016 7:30:30 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: noname

What US v. Miller said was that the National Firearms Act of 1934 was not unconstitutional. And instead of “the government”, it said that the executive branch (via the ATF) can ban weapons of certain types, which is actually unconstitutional, since the right to keep and bear arms is granted to the people, not the militia per se (which Richard Henry Lee said is “in fact, the people themselves”); and the decision focused on Congress’ role in “calling forth the militia” in Article 1 Section 8, a power not granted to the executive either way.


73 posted on 08/12/2016 8:14:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: KarlInOhio

>That’s a Libertarian? The usual Libertarian argument is that the individual should be able to match the government in weaponry, an thus argue over whether strategic arms limitation treaties between the US and Russia apply to individual citizens’ nuclear arsenals or only to the governments’. < /slight exaggeration> <

The Libertarian partay needs to do some house cleaning.


74 posted on 08/12/2016 8:29:31 AM PDT by Darnright (When a system acts illegally, its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force)
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To: Olog-hai
Stupidity that monolithic really ought to be declared a National Monument so people don't start writing graffiti on it.

The problem is that this idiot and people like him write our laws. My standard question to libs frothing at the mouth over this is what do you think would happen if we placed all automobile legislation, safety standards, etc, in the hands of people who hate cars, know nothing about them, think they know everything about them, and don't want anyone ever to own one? It'd be pretty bad legislation, right?

It isn't what they don't know, it's what they think they know that's wrong.

75 posted on 08/12/2016 8:38:20 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Olog-hai

Liberal-tarians...what will the little globalists say next?


76 posted on 08/12/2016 9:36:07 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: cpdiii

Weld may have had a “Vulcan Mind Meld” but it wasn’t with their head. A lot lower me thinks.


77 posted on 08/12/2016 4:16:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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