Assault Weapons Ban Round Up
So, the million err four mom march is planning a rally to demand gun violence solutions. They’re calling it the Halt the Assault Weekend. Nice way to tie it into the Assault Weapons Ban. I guess that is a gun violence solution to a gun violence problem that doesn’t exist. By that I mean there is no violent epidemic from assault weapons. They are used in less than 1% of violent crimes.
Hey, it sounds reasonable doesn’t it? Well, I guess it would until you look at the details.
Right off the top, they ban the Avtomat Kalashnikov models made by Poly Technologies, Norinco, and Mitchell. This may sound reasonable unless you understand that the gun spelled out here has never been made by any of the companies listed. They did make a rifle which looked the same but did not have a number of the key military functions (full automatic fire, burst fire, etc) of the Soviet weapon named. But this part of the text in this ban can not be stretched to cover the rifles they made.
Basically this ban’s effect would be like a “Sports Car Ban” which bans the Ford Camaro. Ford did make the Mustang and many people consider the Camaro to have been an attempt by GM to compete with it. But there is no reaonable purpose to ban either a sports car by a make and model combination that does not exist, or a rifle by a name and company combination that does not exist (sic).
The assault weapons ban also proscribes a number of other military rifles which were never allowed in this country in the first place. One might claim this argument to be mere semantics but when it comes to legal issues semantics is all you have.
Then this law bans assault weapons based on some cosmetic features like bayonet lugs (to prevent gangland bayonet charges?), grenade launchers (already banned, along with their ammunition, by volumes of other federal and state laws), and flash suppressors (which generally have little effect with commercial ammunition).
