Those were tightly restricted by the National Firearms Act of 1934.
I do own a Tyranny Response Rifle and I own it for the same
reason our Founding Fathers preferred rifles over muskets.
It kills tyrants better. Sic semper tyrannis!
MOLON LAVE
Posted on 04/11/2013 10:28:56 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer
Biden made a huge admission this morning on MSNBC, network of gun banners:
"It used to be we were dealing almost exclusively with hunters," Biden said on MSNBC.
"There's a whole new sort of group of individuals now who, I don’t know what the numbers are, that never hunt at all but they own guns for one of two reasons: self protection or they just like the feel of that AR-15 at the range.” “They like the way it feels. You know, it’s like driving a Ferrari," [Biden] said, raising his arms as if shooting a gun.
Biden's comments illustrate they now know they have lost the "nobody need an AR-15 to go 'a' huntin'" argument, because Gun Culture 2.0 is not primarily about hunting. Given Bloomberg's ham-fisted attack ads with the New-York-actor caricature of all gun owners as hunters, it figures that our enemies would soon get some better intel. And they have.
The Left has switched tactics to "you need to give up your little hobby horse. Who needs a Ferrari, anyway?"
This is good, and bad, for us, defenders of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
One good thing is that the opposition now admits that the 2nd Amendment is as US v. Heller describes, that is, not just for "sporting purposes." That's an admission we've been waiting for from the left.
The bad thing is that Biden's "hobby car" argument will almost certainly be swallowed whole by the low-information voter and low-intelligence senators. After all, Biden says:
“What is the inconvenience? ... What are we doing to impact on a gun owners’ right if he only has a clip with ten rounds in it instead of 30 rounds in it?” [Biden] asked.
'Inconvenience' describes something you give up that you can live without, and that's the Biden's point: it's just another hobby, like stamp collecting. Every time the gun banners try to ban guns or magazines, which do nothing to address violence (quite the opposite), they act like we should just roll over, because the 'inconvenience' is minor. After all, Biden says, it's just a hobby, like driving a Ferrari. "Who the hell needs a Ferrari?", Biden is saying.
Oh, and for bonus Marx points, Biden employs class envy. The green envy monster. Biden is employing envy to turn the lower classes against those "Ferrari" owners.
Look, Biden's premise is completely wrong. 'Inconvenience' is not something that should be discussed in the context of fundamental rights. We the People have a fundamental right to keep and bear arms-- determined by US v. Miller to be "militia weapons" and US v. Heller to be those "in common use" -- and those rights "shall not be infringed" by the government.
But, the hysterical rantings of a superannuated, fish-out-of-water-in-the-burbs, backwoods hillbilly from West Virginia do not matter. The Senate will vote to ban these Ferraris. Who needs one, anyway?
And then his plugness proceeds to completely ignore the self defense part of his own statement. This whole administration is stupidly evil.
There is but one consumer product, the ownership of which is protected by the Bill of Rights. It is not health care, birth control, or even necessities like food, shelter or transportation. It is the GUN! If congress decides that it CAN infringe on that right based on need, then the president is easily made to ban other consumer products NOT protected by the Bill of Rights, based on need and death toll of those products. Goodbye swimming pools, sports cars, ATVs, parachutes, speed boats, skis, golf carts, and on and on and on.
Good one!
Thanks, Laz. That means a lot to me.
I do own a Tyranny Response Rifle and I own it for the same
reason our Founding Fathers preferred rifles over muskets.
It kills tyrants better. Sic semper tyrannis!
MOLON LAVE
Joe Biden is a career politician who makes Donald Duck look like Einstein and who never ONCE opened his mouth without sticking his foot in.
He was the only VP candidate hussein could find even stupider than himself.
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