Posted on 08/27/2009 5:52:05 AM PDT by grady
I have often wondered how the media would report a ANSCHÜTZ 9003 Premium S2 Precise Premium Compressed Air Rifle (a very nice pellet gun), if you or I painted it black.
MOLON LABE, is all I have to say.
Since we are finally explaining the rifle, I thought I would add that it was a Bushmaster Carbon 15. Some people on the internet thought it was a AirSoft since there’s an absence of the dust cover and some of the contours were totally different from an AR.
For some, that will always be true. But, for others, associating the machine gun myth with the lack of problems arising from the reality of widespread semi-auto ownership would be perceived as a lack of problems with widespread full-auto ownership. Result (maybe): indifference?
The fact that the media also covered up the fact that the person with the AR was a BLACK MAN was an attempt by the media to incite panic that was not there!
When I lived in Arizona I had a substantial collection of AR-15s and Semi-auto AK type rifles. One gun store refused to do a transfer for me on an AK calling them evil guns that had no purpose other than to kill people. This being said by the owner who had racks of ARs and other military rifle clones.
And then came the campaign for (and passage of) the "assault weapons ban", with the complete support of HGI. Of course, my study had also informed me that long guns were almost never used in crime, and that the guns banned were NOT machineguns. At this point, the scales fell from my eyes, and I realized that the entire anti-gun movement was a lie, based on lies, and completely aimed at the total elimination of guns from society.
So, the net result of the "assault weapons ban" is that I am now a pretty rabid "gun-rights" guy, totally support the elimination of 99% of today's gun laws, and cheer loudly every time another state passes CCW, or relaxes carry restrictions. And I also loudly applaud the "open carry" movement.
Coming from a family that never owned guns, I too once believed the misinformation. Then I got mugged at gunpoint. I did my research and came to see the light.
I expect that we’ll see a legal challenge to the 1934 National Firearms Act in the next 5 years. I agree that this false perception will help.
The “ole blood in the streets” routine is getting a little old and not very believable, yet they still trot it out at every opportunity.
Sounds like he was just PO’d that you didn’t buy a rifle off of his shelf instead of from another dealer.
I should have said the challenge will be to the 1986 Act, which prevented the registration of new machine guns.
Bambi And The Gun: Texas deputies disciplined for staging hot-waitress-with-rifle pics
That was about the worst thing Reagan ever did. Stupid, stupid law.
the effort by pravda to gin up outrage over 'chris' being OUTSIDE a building where the king was reading speaks volumes to the desensitization...and furthermore, since we all know that a .223 can shoot thru buildings [and schools] and still mow down 1000s of innocents with one 'clip', its plain to see that we simply need to enjoy the show...
I like it!
Be Ever Vigilant!
***That was about the worst thing Reagan ever did. Stupid, stupid law.***
Before 1968, you could buy guns and ammo anywhere they were legal.After the 1968 GCL passed, you could only buy guns and ammo in the state you lived in.
The 1986 act again allowed people to buy rifles and ammo only accross state lines.
The Dems attempted to kill the bill by putting in a “poison pill”, that is, the ban on new full auto rifles.
Reagan signed the act into law. We gave up one thing, new full autos, to regain our rights to purchase rifles and ammo accross state lines again.
This is the only reason I would have to go to the TULSA GUN SHOW which is across the state line.
Politicians and the media are always lying and manipulating the facts to sell the public on something. It’s okay, though. It’s because it’s for our own good. If they told us the truth we would probably not come to the correct conclusions. /sarcasm.
Interesting.
Yeah, I guess if folks think we’ve been running around with machine guns all this time and things have been pretty sedate, then the perception just might work to our advantage.
But then the Hysterical Policy Center and the Brady Bonks would have to come up with some new term for machine guns, like “extreme malevolent dispensers of mass death”, or whatever combination of synonymns for “evil” they pick out of a hat.
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