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re: 70% of Young Americans think we should be allowed to own Assualt Rifles
Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:45 am to WildTchoupitoulas
Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:45 am to WildTchoupitoulas
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that were supposed to be banned were still legally available for purchase.
They were grandfathered in.
The "conforming" weapons ("post-ban" designs) replaced the birdcage "flash suppressor" with AK-style or Y-comp muzzle brakes.
Adjustable stocks were replaced with thumbhole or permanently pinned stocks.
Bayonet lugs were removed.
The point is - those hoops shouldn't have been put there. The ludicrous (arbitrary and nebulous) nature of it was exposed, but they never backed down - the only reason is isn't the law of the land now was that in response to that very silly law, the House went Republican. And the only reason they didn't do it again in 2009 or 2010 was that Democrats from red states were shaking in their boots from 1994. Heck, they tried it again after Newton.
Thank G-d those efforts to renew have failed.
But they haven't given up - by any stretch. And despite what Biden says, they want the pistols, revolvers, rifles AND shotguns.
They might (with political patronage, of course) allow their friends to keep shotguns locked up at a gun club for skeet purposes - but that will be it - if they ever get their way on guns. But the rest of them? Forget it. Cut up for scrap.
Don't believe me? Check with the Australian Rifle Association - and that happened, virtually overnight - a nation with gun laws similar to ours went to a U.K. model in about 18 months.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 11:03 am to Ace Midnight
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Thank G-d those efforts to renew have failed.
And yet the original 1994 law was fairly toothless. Apparently their nebulosity only created loopholes. If they re-instated the very same law it would have just as little impact as before. The only reason I don't want them to re-instate the ban is simply because it infringes on my liberty if in even a very small, theoretical way.
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But they haven't given up - by any stretch. And despite what Biden says, they want the pistols, revolvers, rifles AND shotguns.
Which is EXACTLY why we need to be vigilant and look beyond the terminology and focus on the features and functions they are looking to ban - is all I'm saying. Like I said before, they could call shotguns popsicles and I wouldn't care what they call them, but if they tried to BAN popsicles, I would care about what they want to ban.
For now, I embrace 'assault weapons', and I think you should too.
"Save the assault weapon" should be our cry, and frick those guys.
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Don't believe me? Check with the Australian Rifle Association - and that happened, virtually overnight
wtf? Totally non-sequitur. I am NOT arguing that the government should ban anything, or make us register anything, all I am saying is simply that I refuse to have my attention diverted by nomenclature.
Don't waste your time arguing that there's no such thing as an 'assault weapon'. In the end it doesn't matter what they call it. What matters is if they want to ban it.
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