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Any weapon is an assault weapon. Tools of violence are used for violence.
Idiocy reigns supreme - I guess the left really doesn't know when they have goon too far.
So now ANY weapon is to be classified an assault weapon - I guess a knife, a club or hands and feet are now classified as assault weapons. And since they are weapons used in more murders than rifles, they need to be banned more than an AR-15. To get rid of assault weapons we need to cut off everyone's hands and feet. I am sure that will be popular.
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Here's why.
The laws, however, are largely ineffectual. Because these guns are really just ordinary rifles, it is hard for legislators to effectively regulate them without banning half the handguns in the country (those that are semiautomatic and/or have detachable magazines) and many hunting rifles as well.
But gun makers have been able to easily skirt these laws. They just sell the same semiautomatic rifle, with the same lethality, but without the military-style features.
Little wonder then that a 2004 study commissioned by the Department of Justice found that the federal ban didn’t lead to any decrease in gun crime or gun deaths. For starters, rifles, assault or otherwise, are rarely used in gun crime.
Other countries didn't ban assault rifles as such they banned ownership of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricted shotgun capacity to more than three cartridges (in magazine plus the breech). Hanguns has similar restrictions placed on them.
Now it's a cost thing for a Garand. I remember seeing them in Woolworths when I was a kid for under a 100 bucks. With it all to do again I would have spent every dime I ever made mucking stables on Garands. As to the "cool" factor..yea. I guess. But to me the Garand and M1A were THE rifles growing up. Even the old 03s are now scarce and pricey. Ahhh... elsewhen.
Now you can add a zero onto that original price...if I had only known when I was younger, I'd have bought a few.
Other countries didn't ban assault rifles as such they banned ownership of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricted shotgun capacity to more than three cartridges (in magazine plus the breech). Hanguns has similar restrictions placed on them.
And has has been pointed out to you 100 times, other countries don't have our constitution. And we have at least a couple hundred million rifles in circulation plus probably more handguns than that.
And has has been pointed out to you 100 times, other countries don't have our constitution. And we have at least a couple hundred million rifles in circulation plus probably more handguns than that.
And that's what the gun-grabbers just don't get. Setting aside the fact that their tactics won't affect those already illegally in possession of guns, they have no idea how many firearms the rest of us have. Not to mention the fact that no permit is required for long rifles, and most were acquired, handed down, etc. before background checks were required. And that's just here in NY. (NYC doesn't count lol.)
Even with insidious attempts to ultimately "regulate"...every firearm, it will be a futile effort to determine who has what, and to identify all of the firearms in our possession across this fruited plain.
And that's what the gun-grabbers just don't get. Setting aside the fact that their tactics won't affect those already illegally in possession of guns, they have no idea how many firearms the rest of us have. Not to mention the fact that no permit is required for long rifles, and most were acquired, handed down, etc. before background checks were required. And that's just here in NY. (NYC doesn't count lol.)
Even with insidious attempts to ultimately "regulate"...every firearm, it will be a futile effort to determine who has what, and to identify all of the firearms in our possession across this fruited plain.
In my state, it is illegal to register guns, and I would imagine we are not the only ones like that. Probably 1/2 the guns I have are so old they don't have serial numbers anyway. I have never checked the ones my FIL left me.
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And has has been pointed out to you 100 times, other countries don't have our constitution. And we have at least a couple hundred million rifles in circulation plus probably more handguns than that.
And as has been pointed out before, your constitution does not state you can have any gun or weapon you so like, if that was the case military automatic M16 A4 rifles would be openly on sale, but they are not because the law prohibits it.
And as has been pointed out before, your constitution does not state you can have any gun or weapon you so like, if that was the case military automatic M16 A4 rifles would be openly on sale, but they are not because the law prohibits it.
And as has been pointed out before, your constitution does not state you can have any gun or weapon you so like, if that was the case military automatic M16 A4 rifles would be openly on sale, but they are not because the law prohibits it.
And as has been pointed out before, semi-automatic weapons are in "common use for legal purposes" and are protected under the 2nd amendment.
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To get rid of assault weapons we need to cut off everyone's hands and feet. 
I am sure that will be popular. 
With it all to do again I would have spent every dime I ever made mucking stables on Garands. As to the "cool" factor..yea. I guess. But to me the Garand and M1A were THE rifles growing up. Even the old 03s are now scarce and pricey. Ahhh... elsewhen. 
