Ban on those evil muzzle brakes
Cook County (Chicago), Illinois has passed a ban on weapons that look like assault weapons. It’s a rather stupid law that now adds muzzle brakes to the list of evil features. So, your Browning you use for deer with a vented muzzle device is an assault weapon you can get at Wal-Mart. And it seems to have an SKS provision as the magazine requirements don’t require them to be detachable.
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Gay.
I wish meteors would flatten chicago.
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:35 pm
In County Cook, you never know. It may be that one commissioner has just acquired a stock of FN-49s or M1 Garands that he wants to boost the price of. Or, gun dealers just did not come up with enough “campaign contributions” fast enough in the time the ordinance was being considered. What? You don’t believe a Cook County Commissioner would ever propose legislation just to be “persuaded” out of it by a sufficiently convincing “counterargument”?
P.S. Doesn’t Mannlicher make a bolt action with a thumbhole stock?
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:44 pm
P.P.S. U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald is cleaning house and he has two more years to do it. We can only hope.
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Chicago has a long history of organised crime influence in government. This latest move is consistent with that. I just wonder: How bad does it have to get before the perpetrators are brought to justice? That’s the Big Question, isn’t it? How bad?
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:15 pm
As much as the state government in Wisconsin and the city government in Milwaukee have moved to the left, I’m still glad I moved out of Chicago. When the opportunity to move arose, my wee wifey pointed to the mayor’s hoplophobia as the deciding factor.
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:25 pm
This does ont suprise me when it comes to the cities and mayors. They are nothing more than anti gun, business, and liberty. They will see that their population will decline and ther crime rise. New York, D.C., and Chiagco will become crime capitols all to themselves.
December 3rd, 2006 at 8:07 am
Some group of anti-rights bigots must have some boiler-plate that they pass out. I looked at the text of the cook county AWB and is has so many features in common with other attempted AWB’s. It is not locally grown garbage.
December 3rd, 2006 at 2:01 pm
But these people dont know anything about guns. It is just political grandstanding. To actually redo the research would be a complete waste of time, since the law isnt meant to have any effect on crime whatsoever. It’s just a way to harass gun owners. Since their jobs are completely safe (this is chicago, remember) they can pretty much pass whatever they want with impunity.
December 3rd, 2006 at 4:39 pm
BTW, the muzzle brake thing is in the pistol section as well, which will snag a bunch of those IPSC raceguns.
Major crime problem, those IPSC guys.
December 4th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Geezer:
The anti-gun-owner crowd has a whole legal non-profit org that disseminates anti-gun-owner laws and volunteers to help defend them once enacted.
The org is called The Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV)
Here is their Model so-called “Assault weapons ban”
Here is their Model “total handgun ban.”
December 4th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Mayor Daley would be stood against a wall offered a cigarette and a blindfold and then given his earned payment for his actions, if there were justice as prescribed by the constitution.