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If You Hated 'Assault Weapons,' You'll Hate 'Assault Magazines' Even More
Reason ^ | 2-7-2013 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 02/08/2013 8:32:09 AM PST by Sir Napsalot

Today the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force unveiled a "comprehensive set of policy principles designed to reduce gun violence while respecting the 2nd Amendment Rights of law-abiding Americans." What is the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force? A bunch of Democrats appointed by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and led by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) with the assistance of 11 (!) "vice chairs." Their mission: to "reduce and prevent gun violence while also protecting the rights of law-abiding individuals without a history of dangerous mental illness to own legitimate firearms for legitimate purposes." Are the 12 chairs of the task force also the only members? Possibly.

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Assault bullets?
1 posted on 02/08/2013 8:32:14 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

I’m expecting to be jailed soon for “assault thoughts.”


2 posted on 02/08/2013 8:34:01 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: Sir Napsalot

Assault magazine - it must be rolled up really tight, and swung with sufficient force.


3 posted on 02/08/2013 8:34:28 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Assault liberals.


4 posted on 02/08/2013 8:34:39 AM PST by History Repeats (sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: MrB

Maybe that’s what the LAPD thought those two Mexican women had in their blue pickup truck.


5 posted on 02/08/2013 8:36:35 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Time Magazine?


6 posted on 02/08/2013 8:36:57 AM PST by rustbucket
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To: Tublecane

Just five-year-olds so far.


7 posted on 02/08/2013 8:37:35 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Sir Napsalot
to reduce and prevent gun violence while also protecting the rights of law-abiding individuals without a history of dangerous mental illness to own legitimate firearms for legitimate purposes.

Very carefully note what I highlighted. They've recently injected this into the discussion, and I'm very afraid of the consequences of this conditional clause.

With the Democrats in control of the newly-minted healthcare abortion in this country, you can bet your bottom dollar that they are going to redefine the mental health field in ways that will net large swaths of Americans as "mentally defective," and thus subject to denial of the right to self-defense.

I, for one, believe this will lead to the decimation of the mental health field in this nation, as people who treasure their right to armed self-defense will pass on going to see even a social worker to just talk about their day-to-day stressors.

Hug your children, embrace your parents and your elders. I believe we need to go back to an extended family, church-going, nuclear community, know-thy-neighbor way of living to combat the tyranny that's coming to our doorsteps.

8 posted on 02/08/2013 8:42:26 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

New Jersey already bans hollow point ammunition.


9 posted on 02/08/2013 8:48:33 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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I refuse to give up my FIREPOWER and PISTOLERO magazines!

I always thought that the right to own firearms also covered the items necessary to make them work, like magzines and ammo, scopes, bipods, ect.

I guess I was wrong.


10 posted on 02/08/2013 8:51:42 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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To: rustbucket

that’s high crapacity.


11 posted on 02/08/2013 8:52:32 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Yo-Yo

With an exemption for cops? Or a total ban?


12 posted on 02/08/2013 8:54:19 AM PST by Bob
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To: Sir Napsalot
...to own legitimate firearms for legitimate purposes.

I will decide what is legitimate for my purposes. I never did find the "sporting purposes" section in the Second Amendment.

13 posted on 02/08/2013 8:54:44 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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Ah, the too, too scary “copkillers.” Because cops are so damn precious. They aren’t ever doing anything that they deserve to get killed for, and it’s not like non-cops could ever wear vests./s


14 posted on 02/08/2013 8:56:49 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: Sir Napsalot

I’ve heard the ridiculous term “cop-killer bullets” being resurrected again after Newtown, as well as “armor-piercing bullets”, even by Leon Panetta, to our own troops. Their definition is any bullet that can pierce a thin kevlar vest, which includes every hunting rifle round in existence.


15 posted on 02/08/2013 8:58:53 AM PST by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: rustbucket

“Time Magazine”

Now that is one magazine that needed to bite the dust!


16 posted on 02/08/2013 8:59:37 AM PST by ImNotLying (The MSM bears a close resemblance to the world's oldest profession!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Assault Drones


17 posted on 02/08/2013 9:04:27 AM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America, don't you?)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

>>> I always thought that the right to own firearms also covered the items necessary to make them work......I guess I was wrong.

You are not alone.

“We” are playing Libs’ word game.


18 posted on 02/08/2013 9:05:16 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Iron Munro

Drones that wannabe “queen bees”


19 posted on 02/08/2013 9:06:19 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Do they have a staple in the naval?


20 posted on 02/08/2013 9:06:29 AM PST by Truth29
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