The Truth about Semi-Automatic Weapons

This is a great video showing the absurdity of the "assault weapons" ban. The current leftist talking point going around is, "Who needs an assault weapon." Many in the soccer mom crowd buy the talking point, because they have no understanding of how guns work.

In this video, Officer Pyle of the San Jose Police Department explains how semi-automatic weapons really work, and that internally guns that "look evil" are identical to those which "look good."

10-4 on that. To paraphrase Eli Wallach: “Truth? We don’t need no stinkin’ truth”. hussein gives a Jan deadline with the “if you need me, (not really) I’ll be telecommuting from Hawaii. You know, where I was born.” Yup, we’re “perfectly clear” on that.

Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.

Was that video originally done for the 1986 NFA? They discussed conversion of semi- to full-auto and how difficult it is. They also discussed common misconceptions as to aesthetics. Informative video, but I felt like I was sitting in a high school health class watching a reel-to-reel film on sex education.

***Their real goal is the complete ban on all firearms.***

Nelson T. 'Pete' Shields Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.

"I'm convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest. Of course, it's true that politicians will then go home and say, 'This is a great law. The problem is solved.' And it's also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.

So then we'll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.

My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — totally illegal."

-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., "A Reporter At Large: Handguns," The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58

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