Posted on 02/27/2013 11:05:06 AM PST by marktwain
At 10:00 AM Eastern Time today, Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) S. 150, to ban so-called "assault weapons," and "to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited," will be heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee. S. 150 has perhaps an even chance of being passed in committee, and proceeding to the Senate floor. Once there, as St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner has noted before, further progress looks exceedingly unlikely, with the caveat that a Beslan-scale massacre committed with such firearms could energize the gun ban fanatics (and intimidate our congressional "allies") beyond anything we have ever experienced.
Meanwhile, the Judiciary Committee members should take note that "assault weapons" bans are on the cusp of becoming irrelevant (there's still time--if you do it right now--to call them and tell them). On Sunday, the hard working, liberty loving innovators of Defense Distributed brought their "Wiki Weapon" project to an entirely new level (see sidebar video). They have now used a 3-D printer to "print" a plastic lower receiver for an AR-15 "assault weapon," rugged enough to stand up to hundreds of rounds (and counting). They will soon be making the CAD files available for free to anyone with internet access.
With the lower receiver being the part that, as far as the federal government is concerned, is the gun, and the only part that requires serial numbers, or any kind of federal hoops, all the other parts are completely unregulated, and the government has no record of where they are.
Feinstein's bill would also ban 11-round and larger magazines, as would stand alone bills H.R. 138 and S. 33 (ten years of federal prison, for an 11-round magazine). And guess what--Defense Distributed is even further along in the process of making those bans irrelevant.
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Lots of embedded links at the original site.
Gives a whole new meaning to the old “plastic rifle” knickname for the M16.
Gives a whole new meaning to the old “plastic rifle” knickname for the M16.
Gives a whole new meaning to the old “plastic rifle” knickname for the M16.
You can say that again.
You can say that again.
I really have to wonder if that's what's been happening this month. Let me find my list of February's major nationally-covered shootings:
- Underground bunker guy in Alabama
- King of the Snipers assassinated
- Dorner / LAPD
- Olympics guy in South Africa
Each one of those is a pretty unique story compared to just about anything we've heard of in the past couple of years, and here they are all in one month, one beginning almost literally the day after the previous one ends.
“Feinstein’s bill would also ban 11-round and larger magazines, as would stand alone bills H.R. 138 and S. 33 (ten years of federal prison, for an 11-round magazine).”
Luckily I bought a whole bunch of 10 3/4 round mags to get under the limit.
I would not be surprised if the left would some how orchestrate “a Beslan-scale massacre” just to make sure their agenda is achieved.
I swear, I only clicked once!
If you are over 18 and not a felon no limit on how many guns you can own in the state of Texas. Don’t mess with Texas!
The assault weapons ban and the other bans in the bill are only important as bargaining points to”compromise” it down to what they really want and that is universal registration via universal background checks. They may even surrender the “recorded” facet of the UBCs but we all know that everything is recorded, whether it is admitted or not. They want that UBC because that can be followed by extension to ammo and then it would be easy to slowly strangle the trade as will as know who has what. Confiscation WILL follow, though not immediately. They have to build up a good database first.
Put 2 tens(mags)together and you have a 20! 3 gives you 30.Coupling is easy and springs are easy to make with piano wire.
***“Feinstein’s bill would also ban 11-round and larger magazines,***
Good for her! Everyone knows that no one is ever killed with the first ten rounds in a magazine! All deaths and injuries happen with the bottom ten or twenty!
It has always been about handguns. Assault rifles are just a decoy to try and get their anti-gun foot in the door.
Once they get a ban on AWs then they will use the same reasons to go after handguns.
John Kennedy killed with a 5 shot bolt action rifle.
Charles Whitman, killed 14, wounded 32 others mostly with a bolt action 6mm hunting rifle. Also used a shotgun and an m1 carbine.
Medgar Evers, shot with a 5 shot 1917 bolt action Enfield rifle.
Martin Luther King, shot with a 4 shot Remington 760 pump action Gamemaster rifle.
Bobby Kennedy with a .22 Iver Johnson Cadet revolver.
George Wallace wounded with a 5 shot Charter Arms .38spl revolver.
Howard Johnsons shooter killed nine, wounded thirteen with a 4 shot RUGER .44 mag Deerslayer rifle.
Gerald Ford attacked with a 7 shot 1911 semi auto.
Edmond OK post office with two National Guard 7 shot 1911 pistols.
Ronald Reagan and Jim Brady with an RG-14 .22 revolver.
None over 7 rounds yet they were followed with hysterical calls to ban them.
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