Georgia Assault Weapons Ban?
Et tu, Georgia? Never thought I’d hear that phrase either. But there really is a bill. The bill is full of lies:
(a) The General Assembly finds:
(1) Semiautomatic assault weapons are military-style guns designed to quickly kill large numbers of people. The shooter can simply point, rather than carefully aim, the weapon to quickly spray a wide area with a hail of bullets;
No, sorry. You still have to aim it just like any other gun.
(2) According to data of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, between 1998 and 2001, one in five law enforcement officers slain in the line of duty was killed with an assault weapon;
(3) Gun manufacturers have for many years made, marketed, and sold to civilians semiautomatic versions of military assault weapons designed with features specifically intended to increase the lethality for military applications; and
No. The features listed do not affect a weapons’ lethality.
(4) Assault weapons have been used in some of America´s most notorious murders, including the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School and the 2002 Washington, D.C., area sniper shootings.
Uhm, no. The DC snipers used a post ban weapon and the Columbine kids used a Tec9, if I recall.
And go read the text of the law, it is quite amusing.
April 14th, 2004 at 12:38 pm
We had a struggle in Maryland to prevent a local ban on semi-auto rifles. To support that effort we developed truth material which might prove useful to you (at least some of it and some of the ideas which might require work to adapt from Maryland to Georgia). Take a look toward the bottom of http://www.mcrkba.org/Briefs.html where you will see a link to a pdf brief on risks to police officers from AWs and where you can find links to much more material.
Good Luck,
Phil Lee