More gun lies
A semi-hysterical piece on the now defunct assault weapons ban starts:
It’s been nine months since President Bush lifted the national ban on the sale of assault weapons.
The president doesn’t make law nor lift laws. The ban had a sunset provision and expired after ten years. Bush did not lift the ban. More stupidity:
Police say in so-called “straw purchases,” drug addicts with clean records are legally buying these types of guns, then selling them to criminals for drugs and money.
If it’s a straw purchase, it is not legally bought. Even more stupidity:
With the lifting of the assault ban, magazines and banana clips that can carry as many as 30 rounds of ammunition are now legal; as is an SKS rifle with a bayonet, pistol grip and a detachable magazine.
Magazines and banana clips where never illegal. New ones couldn’t be made nor imported but there were plenty on the market any way. And the SKS was never covered under the ban anyway. One guy interviewed gets it right:
No type of gun law that you come up with is going to prevent criminals from obtaining firearms.
July 13th, 2005 at 9:11 am
What are the laws on converting a fixed magazine SKS to a detachable one? I thought that was covered under the import regs, not the Clinton AWB.
July 13th, 2005 at 9:19 am
I those are covered under 922, which i beleive were Bush1 regs. I think they state that the guns can only have 10 imported parts, or something arbitrary like that. Same rules that cover AKs, IIRC.
July 13th, 2005 at 12:51 pm
Also, if they have “clean records,” then how do we know that they are “drug addicts” in the first place? Such blatant stupidity …
July 13th, 2005 at 1:54 pm
Well, it has been nine months since ex-President Clinton lifted the national ban on the sale of “assault” weapons.
July 13th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
Police say in so-called “straw purchases,” drug addicts with clean records are legally buying these types of guns, then selling them to criminals for drugs and money.
How many drug addicts you know of that have several hundred/thousand dollars to buy “evil assault weapons”?