Posted on 06/14/2008 8:44:36 PM PDT by neverdem
no, assault weapon is a BS name made up to confuse and is semi-auto only. assault rifle is a select fire weapon chambering an intermediate cartridge.
I trust my local sheriff more than the ATF any day, because I (and other voters) elect him.
I have diddley squat to say about who works at the BATFE.
YMMV
My thoughts too.
“Brady Campaign Attorney Dennis Henigan said there are multiple gun control measures that would not run afoul of a Supreme Court decision striking down the D.C. gun ban. “
“Universal background checks don’t affect the right of self-defense in the home. Banning a super dangerous class of weapons, like assault weapons, also would not adversely affect the right of self-defense in the home,” said Henigan. “Curbing large volume sales doesn’t affect self-defense in the home.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5055064&page=1
Let us not forget the alternatives to gun control. Such as ammunition control (being tried right now), make everybody a felon control (well on the way), ammo-tax control, etc.
What is obvious is these anti-American jerks will not stop their quest for “what is best for all us peons” even if the Supreme Court of the United States clearly states beyond any shadow of any doubt that it is an individual right.
When the homosexual cabal lost the James Dale case in the Supreme Court, which affirmed the right of the Boy Scouts of America to exclude homosexual Scouts and Scouters (adult leaders), the gays went right to work attacking the BSA through its funding (United Way) and use of community facilities, especially including community facilities built or improved over the years by the BSA themselves. The basis of their attack was that the BSA, despite 80-90 years of public experience to the contrary and massive public goodwill, is an exclusionary hate group and didn't deserve public or eleemosynary support. Unlike them, of course, who were actually carrying on a "rule or ruin" hate campaign.
They are actually making quite a bit of ground in this campaign of objective vilification and abuse. Which tells you something about how they operate, who they're operating on, and the condition of values and personal judgment in this country, when a fringe group of sexual deviants can publicly attack a monumental pillar of society like the BSA.
The homosexual campaign is vicious, small, nasty, mean, and thoroughly demonstrative of the reasons the BSA excluded them from participation in the first place.
Crime is totally beside the point. It's all about ideology.
Socialist, statist ideology does not permit private individuals to possess means of resistance to the government. Period.
That's what it's all about.
"You will comply. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."
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Yeah, I'm slowly coming home. I used to be one of those hard core folks who declared I'd rather put the OBAMANATION into the White House before I'd vote for RINO McCain. I now have three Army Veteran for McCain stickers on my car and I'm resigned to vote for him, as will my spouse. And yes, we'll probably shower off the McSLIME later just so long as it's not a RAT in the Oval Office! I don't think this country will even exist if the Dems take control this time. That's easy to say -- (vote your conscience stuff) but difficult to do in the execution when you start contemplating the world inaction will foist on our children and grandchildren.
-Ban on importing all surplus military ammo (too affordable, and "for killing").
-Ban on importing all parts for "assault weapons".
-Ban on .50 cal rifles.
-Ban on "unusually destructive" hollowpoint or "armor piercing" ammo.
-Massive tax levies on ammo to fund "medical costs to cities".
-More schemes to require registration and licensing, and to prevent private sales and inheritances.
-More schemes to classify more and more people as somehow unfit to have their rights.
-Endless false statistics and propaganda about rising gun deaths and "assault weapon" attacks.
It's going to be an interesting four years for the Tree of Liberty.
You all know where this is going. As President, Obama will rule by fiat (executive order), and with republicans who dribble pee down their legs every time Pelosi or Reid raises their voice, a compliant media and a vengeful Left, there will be absolutely no resistance.
So - look for a repeat of the ‘enabling acts’ that allowed another dictator to clinch his hold on power back in 1932. Evil times are upon us.
As for the GOP, yes, I can't find it credible to entrust them with the preservation of anything, when their political cowardice, combined with their own collectivist tendencies, are what caused them to squander so much of the political capital they once had.
Be Ever Vigilant!!
Where does the Constitution authorize the ATF?
That's your choice, but I find that my bumper stickers have helped me out in a variety of ways: I usually have a "veterans for" (insert candidate here) on my side rear mini van windows and it's gotten me into heavy traffic patterns. I think it's my vet sticker because my city (MIAMI, FL) is renowned nation wide as having the rudest drivers in the country! Then there have been numerous bad guy type events averted when folks have gotten a gander at my NRA Instructor stickers and my IDPA sticker. Yes I know such forewarning may well prove fatal for me if the perp in question sees the stickers and just decides to pop me with no warning right in the head but I feel that if I'm in a proper Condition Yellow mindset that is going to be a risky and problematic proposition for HIM or THEM. It's worked out that way in the past. You can go "sterile" if you like but my bumper stickers are a part of me.
I hope it is, but two recent 5-4 decisions, with Kennedy the swing vote and author of each, makes me wonder about that. The first one involved according rights to illegal combatants captured on the battlefield, in spite of centuries of precedent to the contrary, with no intervening change in the Constitution to justify a change in case law. The second involved an illegal alien who overstayed his visa, being granted the right to stay in the country, in spite of other transgressions against the immigration laws, and with no question that he'd had his "due process" hearing. He'd even signed a voluntary agreement to leave! (He is Nigerian, not that that matters)
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