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What´s an Assault Weapon?
Reason Magazine, by Jacob Sullum

Original Article

Posted By:StormCnter, 1/30/2013 4:51:23 PM

Last week Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced a new, supposedly improved version of the federal "assault weapon" ban that expired in 2004. But like that earlier law, which the California Democrat also sponsored, Feinstein´s bill prohibits the manufacture and sale of guns based on characteristics that have little or nothing to do with the danger they pose. Although arbitrary distinctions are a defining characteristic of "assault weapon" bans, recent polls indicate that most Americans support them. New survey data suggest one possible explanation: Most Americans don´t know what "assault weapons" are.

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I would be hard put to give a good explanation of what would be covered.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: melman, 1/30/2013 5:22:03 PM     (No. 9149234)

What would you expet from a people who don´t know or care about the person they elected to be President.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Rafter, 1/30/2013 5:22:09 PM     (No. 9149235)

"It´s about $250.00."

Actually, no one really knows.

And that´s the way the DimWitz like it.
And why they like being led by DimWitches.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: bkt23, 1/30/2013 5:30:13 PM     (No. 9149247)

The whole premise of "assault weapon" was created for the purpose of establishing a delineation between what the "only ones" - military, Guard, cops - may have and what We the Peasants may have. Generally, it referred to fully-automatic weapons.

In truth, lifting the National Firearms Act would not result in full-auto Rambo-style slayings in every urban center in America.

The current crop of lying liars who lie (politicians) are now trying to conflate the traditional full-auto firearms with civilian semi-auto firearms that cosmetically *look* like the military versions. Furthermore, they refer to "high" capacity "clips" which are actually standard-capacity magazines; you don´t buy an AR-15 with a 5-round magazine. You always get a 20- or 30-round magazine or 12. That´s normal, not "high".

Unfortunately, the culture in many urban centers has been twisted and morphed over time so that people there regard any firearm with fear and disdain. Our so-called educational system has drummed out of voters´ heads why firearms are actually good and necessary in a civilized society.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Bpl40, 1/30/2013 6:09:34 PM     (No. 9149306)

An "assault" weapon is whatever the San Fransico Lefties think it is. The more patriotic Americans that it turns into criminals the better. Gov Perry said it best -Most effective gun control is with both hands.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Hadjipoo, 1/30/2013 6:36:49 PM     (No. 9149351)

The Assault Weapon is anything used against you in a crime. It´s what you need an AK-47 to defend yourself against!


Reply 6 - Posted by: raspberry, 1/30/2013 7:11:06 PM     (No. 9149396)

"Assault Rifle" is a term coined by leftists. Not one army in the world uses this semi-automatic weapon. The lies of prpoagandists can exist only in a vacume, in the absense of ruth.


Reply 7 - Posted by: goose, 1/30/2013 7:46:53 PM     (No. 9149440)

A Colt 1860 percussion revolver with a detachable stock meets the Feinstein definition because the shooter can quickly remove the cylinder (like a magazine, it holds the ammunition and can be detached) and put in another loaded cylinder. So Civil War re-enactors beware.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: aintnojoke, 1/30/2013 7:55:29 PM     (No. 9149449)

I got your assault weapon right here.


Reply 9 - Posted by: jgat, 1/30/2013 8:25:31 PM     (No. 9149474)

One of the most successful military weapons in history, the M1 Garand has NO magazine and it would not be prohibited by any of the current proposed laws.


Reply 10 - Posted by: MtGardenerview, 1/30/2013 8:49:19 PM     (No. 9149495)

This is a very disturbing video of how the anti gun folks distort the news.
There were no assault rifles used at the Newtown school shooting. only hand guns

http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/50208495#50208495


Reply 11 - Posted by: Axeman, 1/30/2013 9:12:21 PM     (No. 9149524)

No rifle was used at all, not even the Bushmaster. No "assault weapon" was even present.
The lie goes on.


Reply 12 - Posted by: woodsman, 1/30/2013 9:46:58 PM     (No. 9149566)

I believe the Garand was listed by name in the legislation #10


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Islander, 1/30/2013 10:10:23 PM     (No. 9149584)

No such thing as Assault "Weapons"; assult Rifles are:
-a man carried weight rifle capable of fully automatic fire, &
-firing smaller REDUCED energy bullets compared to standard infantry rifles.
Germans developed them in WW2. They first used 9mm PISTOL caliber SUB-machine guns to their paratroopers and other crack Blitzkreiz troops but found it´s range and kill power inadequate. But soldiers couldn´t reliably manage a fully automatic rifle (of reasonable weight)firing the German 7.92x57mm infantry rifle bullet. SO they shortened the case to 33mm, reduced the powder charge accordingly and produced a new gun, the MP 43/44 Sturmgewehr (Storm Rifle) to fire it.
Ergo, an Assault Rifle is a fully automatic rifle firing a puny bullet. Although both the German infantry rifle and the MP43 fired same diameter bullet the 7.92x57 infantry round fired a 200 grain bullet at 2750 ft/second and 3.000 ft-pounds energy while the MP43 was a 125 grain bullet traveling 2100 ft/sec and a mere 1200 ft-lbs energy, less that half that of the 7.92x57.
All later Assault Rifles have similar characteristics.
Btw, the AR-15 and similar are semi-automatic, have a removable box magazine and fires a .22 caliber (5.56x45mm), 55 grain bullet at 3250 ft/sec with 1290 ft-lbs energy; people keep mistakenly calling it an Assault Rifle. The .243 caliber Winchester Model 100 I hunted deer with in the 1950´s and ´60s is a functionally identical semi-automatic with a removable magazine but fires a larger, heavier .243" 100 grain bullet at 3,000 ft/sec with 2,000 ft-lbs energy. But nobody ever called it an Assault Rifle, it just happens to look like a hunting rifle.


Reply 14 - Posted by: bubber, 1/30/2013 10:24:34 PM     (No. 9149599)

what´s a lead guitar?...



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