Your daily dose of lies
I guess it’s a good sign for the Assault Weapons Ban that you see the desperation of the anti-gun crowd. Some lies for today:
“I can’t believe that with 31 Americans being murdered with guns every day we would put assault weapons back on the streets. So many families have been torn apart by these weapons of war. Our police officers, routinely outgunned ten years ago, will suffer the consequences of inaction. This will be an all out fight to renew the assault weapons ban,” McCarthy added.
You never took them off the streets, you idiot.
Criminals and gun traffickers who are prohibited from purchasing firearms at gun stores are using what the group describes as the gun-show loophole to fuel the market with guns, the group claims.
“Felons, children and terrorists can get guns at gun shows now without questions,” said Deborah Barron with Americans for Gun Safety.
In 1993, Congress passed the Brady Law, which requires federally licensed gun dealers to perform background checks on all gun buyers. But under federal law, firearms may be sold by unlicensed sellers at guns shows without a background check.
By the way, an unlicensed seller is a citizen engaging in lawful commerce. I have sold and traded guns in the past. So, I suppose they want to license everyone? According the Fed’s own data, guns used in crime are rarely obtained from gun shows.
Perhaps the Post might want to exempt rifles from its one-in-20 criteria when it hears that the one officer dying from a rifle wound was actually shot in 1977 and died 23 years later and 10 years after retiring with 20 years on the force. If we remove that one death from the list, then no officers died from rifle wounds received in the 16 year period cited.
That’s right, Maryland officers have not been shot and killed with AK-47s, AR-15s, M-1As… or any rifle whatsoever during 16 years examined (and this is the record in one of the most violent states in the union). Perhaps the Post should re-think its support for banning “assault-style” firearms.
February 25th, 2004 at 12:59 pm
Great catch!
February 25th, 2004 at 1:09 pm
So Rodge, when you gonna get that bandwidth thing under control. Are you hitting instapundit levels?
March 6th, 2004 at 12:45 am
Oh my God, we need to ban all scary-looking evil black military-style rapid-fire semi-automatic high-powered ultra-lethal death super machineguns!
Fucking idiots, AK-47s and AR-15s actually fire WEAKER ammunition (that’s right, less noisy, less “scary”, weaker, smaller, less lethal!) than most other hunting rifles (moose, deer, bear…) or even older military models.
Please compare:
AK-47 round: 7.62mm X 39mm, 123 grains, at 2410 FPS (feet per second)
AK-74 round: 5.45mm X 39mm, ~50 grains, at 2600 FPS
AR-15/M-16 round: 5.56mm X 45mm NATO, 55 grains, at 3100 FPS
…with:
the two most popular rounds:
(.308) 7.62mm X 51mm NATO, 147 grains, 2750 FPS
(.30-06) 7.62mm X 63mm, 180 grains, 2850 FPS
and…
(.50) 12.7mm X 99mm, 700 grains, 3200 FPS
12.7mm X 108mm, 750 grains, 3300 FPS
14.5mm X 115mm, 1000 grains, 3500 FPS
Huge bullets, aren’t they? Why aren’t these banned? Easy answer – because they do not see them in movies while they’re at their mansions, therefore they must only prohibit what they “know” because they have seen them in Hollywood movies, and because they sound and “look” scary for “the general public”.
Fuckers.
February 25th, 2004 at 11:54 am
Sick of American Guns
Commissar tires of infamous war criminals, gun fanatics, militarists, and hegemonistic capitalists propagandizing about Amerikan weapons. Da! Commissar has had enough of your M-16s and your tanks. You want gun pr0n, Uncle? How about Les? And you “Ivan”…