At first, the gun control bogey man was handguns. In fact, the Brady Campaign used to be Handgun Control, Inc. and they advocated handgun bans. They were unsuccessful. The next bogeyman was invented in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so called assault weapons. Assault weapons are merely regular guns that look like military guns. These guns function like any other semi-automatic but look mean. Both bogeymen were made to be that way through misleading statistics and, in some cases, outright lies. The latest bogeyman is the dreaded 50 caliber.

Jeff’s weekly check on the bias focuses on 50 calibers.

I’ve never really wanted one of these things but now I kind of half way want to buy one just to annoy gun controllers.

Posted in uncategorized on January 11th, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |