Assault Weapons Ban Round Up
Jeff has the weekly thing up, which addresses the Maryland ban and other issues.
Maryland gun stores report booming business of Assault Rifles, even though there’s a ban on them currently. That sounds familiar.
“In San Francisco, it is licence for marriage of same sex,” Schwarzenegger said yesterday on television. “Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licences for assault weapons and someone else hands out licences for selling drugs. I mean, you can’t do that.” (sic – not so much sic really, as cultural differences)
The gun industry protection bill may have the Assault Weapons Ban attached to it.
A media outlet gets the facts about the ban right, for once:
They argued that anti-gun zealots have blurred the distinction between semiautomatic rifles, which fire one bullet each time the trigger is pulled, and fully automatic weapons, which continue to fire as long as the trigger is pressed. Fully automatic weapons are already severely restricted by federal law; the proposed state ban affects semiautomatic assault rifles.
“People assume wrongly that an assault weapon is fully automatic,” said Jim Moffitt, a 33-year-old surgical technologist from Frederick who bought a Ruger rifle for $350. “It’s a lack of education.”
Here’s a new one:
Proposed measures include preventing people from openly carrying guns into bars and restaurants that sell alcohol; letting local school boards decide, after holding a public hearing, whether they want to establish gun-free school zones; mandating criminal-background checks on all gun sales at gun shows; requiring training for people applying for concealed-handgun permits; and banning the sale of high-powered, .50-caliber assault rifles in Virginia.
Odd how last year those .50 caliber rifles were called .50-caliber sniper rifles. After all, an assault rifle is a weapon capable of automatic fire, that fires a light or medium powered bullet. Nope, no scaremongering here.
