Hell, yes, they’re going to take my AR-14
and my AK-46!

The main objection against passing new gun laws should be the fact that liberal prosecutors, large city governments, and courts refuse to enforce our current laws. They insist on releasing dangerous repeat felons into society and they ignore the fact that they reoffend. The vast majority of homicides are related to the trade in illegal narcotics, yet liberals don't want to enforce drug laws. They refuse to recognize the evils of the trade in dangerous illegal narcotics. The number of homicides with semi-auto rifles is a rounding error compared to the number of murders committed by dangerous career criminals who are being allowed to walk around loose.

There is no question that the 2nd amendment was intended to keep our government in check so any infringement on the means to do so is a direct violation. Then the smarty pants lefroid can ask "what about nuclear weapons, should everybody have the bomb? The bomb doesn't make any sense in the push back against the government scenario so restrictions on it are valid. As you follow that path of "what about" challenges to an armed citizenry, somewhere you get to tanks airplanes and automatic weapons. Let's say the government was right in the Waco disaster, it still serves as an example of what government military overreach may very well look like. Even with that assumption, it was demonstrated that resistance against armored vehicles is necessary to fulfill the intent of the second amendment. We the people have a right to resist real weapons of war used against us. What do we need to serve that purpose? Nowhere in the continuum of asking "what if's" do you ever get to the point of justifying banning the right to own semi-automatic weapons. And to think, some founders didn't think the Bill of Rights was necessary because they articulate that which was considered obvious aspects of the deceleration of independence and the constitution. I'm so glad that the article points our the history of semi-automatic weapons. We are being asked to surrender the second amendment because in the early 21st century we suddenly can't be trusted with late 19th century technology. Ponder the absurdity of that. "A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted." --------Niccolo Machiavelli “We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?” -------- Joseph Stalin

When the Founders wrote the Second Amendment, it was because the British were coming, not because it was the start of deer season.

An idiot young person told me yesterday that the NRA was the cause of black on black crime, and it's the fault of Republicans in large cities like Chicago that crime is so bad. Unbelievable. Leftists don't care about deer season or anything else other than taking away rights and the ability of a populace to defend itself from corrupt government. They don't care about the Constitution or the Founding Fathers either!

#2, the entire US Constitution was written to keep government in check. If you were to make this point in class at any top Law School today you will be pilloried and thrown out.

Fine, take both of them. The 300 Win Mag will get you as you are driving away, up to a mile.

I appreciate the fact the author defined what is an assault rifle and what is not by stating (fully automatic) assault rifle v.s. (semi automatic) not assault rifle. He stated you can not own a fully automatic rifle. I differ with him on this. You can legally own fully automatic weapons if you have a federal license to do so. (very expensive and difficult to get). The point is though, an AR-15 is NOT an assault rifle but an M-16 is and you can not go to the local retailer and purchase an M-16.

You don’t have to be a genius to figure out the leftist and liberal Democrat plans to ultimately ban all modern firearms throughout the USA. All you have to know is that Joseph Biden publicly stated is that after he is elected that he will appoint Beto O’Rourke who is an extreme anti-gun activist to be in charge of the would be Biden Administration’s anti-gun efforts.

#8: I hope DJT hammers that point home. When Biden promised Beto a position as Gun Confiscator, he WILL definitely do it.

Idiot Joe opens up a can of worms by being so ignorant. And trying to be accurate in terminology can be a historic minefield, too. One must be careful with the AKs throwing around odd numbers. The "47" is the year adopted, and there were improved models, AK-49, AK-54, etc, although these esoteric designations are little known outside the Soviet bloc and firearms history buffs. And almost all of the current crop of "AK-47"s are not only a modified civilian version to be semi-auto only, but are actually semi-auto versions of the later design, properly known as the AKM, which has a different receiver design, and some different internal parts from the actual AK-47. Probably almost nobody has seen an actual AK-47, which was built in small quantities, quickly replaced in Russia by improved versions in 1949, and later models, and by the late 1950s the AKMs took over. In the 70s, the model was revised to the AK-74, different caliber used. Since 2014, the current model is the AK-15......adopted in 2015, nothing to do with the AR-15, Gene Stoner's 15th design. But like "Kleenex" is used for all tissues, "AK-47" is often used for all "AK variants". The best way to "be right" is to call them all Kalashnikovs, for the designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, although he copied most of it from a German design. And our US military "M-16" is mostly the newer model, called the "M-4".