New Gun Bill
Looks DiFi wants to regulate 50 calibers (and equivalents) as NFA weapons (you know, $200 tax and a second background check that duplicates the first). Of course, it’s hard to measure equivalents depending on the criteria. If you use, say, caliber then a lot of old black powder guns are NFA items. If you use foot pounds, a few other rounds get close or exceed 50 calibers. Armed Canuck says:
Such weapons already exist, folks. Hell, you can achieve some of the .50BMG’s anti-material capabilities with .308 armor piercing rounds. You just need to be a little closer than the .50 to do it.
This is a very dangerous clause and I’ll need to see if the bill if they clarifies it further. But for now, you can consider ownership of not only the .50BMG but the .338 Lapua, .408 CheyTac and .416 Barrett as falling under this. After all, the stated purpose of the .416 was specifically to achieve the .50BMG’s hitting power and ballistics but in a smaller package (partially to get under the .50 caliber ban in California.).
He has more.
May 11th, 2007 at 8:50 am
The first thing I thought was that they’d come out with a .49 caliber. Or just switch to millimeters. The media and Congress never could figure out the difference between caliber and mm.
May 11th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Fifties are far too phallic for her San Francisco feminist sensibilities. Kind of like that “conspicuously protruding pistol grip” thing she was on about in ’94.
May 11th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Yeah, “fifty” is too nice a number and easily makes things “scary”.
It’s not fifty caliber it’s:
12.7 millimeters
1.27 centimeters
half an inch
Smaller than a dime
May 11th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Barrett himself said that the .416 was developed solely to achieve the .50BMG’s hitting power and ballistics but in a smaller package, and that the project began before the .50 was being demonised. Given his refusal to support California government owned Barrett .50s I’m inclined to believe this.
May 11th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
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