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Posted on 07/28/2022 12:57:14 PM PDT by libstripper
Today the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held the first in a series of hearings designed to support efforts to enact new gun control laws. Invited to testify at the hearing were the CEOs of a number of prominent firearms manufacturing companies, including Daniel Defense, Smith & Wesson, Sig Sauer and others. If you find yourself wondering what these CEOs have to do with this ongoing process, you’re not alone, but most of them agreed to show up. Ahead of the hearing, the committee released a lengthy statement penned by Democratic Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney. In it, she indicated that they would be releasing their findings from an “investigation” into the sales reports of the various companies as if it was really all that difficult to find their sales records. Maloney announced what she clearly seemed to think was a shocking statistic. The combined companies racked up more than one billion dollars in sales of certain styles of semiautomatic long rifles that Democrats refer to as “assault weapons.” Oh, and they advertise their products. You’re shocked, I know. Here are a couple of excerpts from Maloney’s letter.
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But, why do they not give them away?/s
Couple of points (in agreement) with you:
If we allow the military use or not litmus test to have any impact on our rights we are screwed. Probably every firearm ever designed/created (with the possible exception of some really cheap junk) has at one time or another been used by some military unit somewhere.
As I understand it the M-16 rifle was originally based on a design for a civilian rifle. Armalite took their design and adapted it for military requirements and actually won the contract. The civilian AR series is/was just returning to it's roots.
Finally, just because something is "military" in appearance or capability or whatever should not in any way be a detractor from civilian use. Far from it, it actually recommends such weapons and gear.
...to be used against tyrannical governments!
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The second amendment is about “Sic Semper Tyrannis” and as such it is specifically intended to protect military arms of ALL kinds.
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So where are we getting our HIMARS and 100,000 GMLRS rockets, plus the odd thousand ATACMS rockets each?
Where does one store an F-22 or a M1A3 MBT?
You understand wrong. The Armalite AR-15 was a select fire rifle. It was based on the select fire AR-10 which was part of the competition that ended with the M14. The Colt ArmaLite AR-15 was marketed after Armalite sold the rights to Colt. The Air Force adopted it. I didn't become the M16 until the Army fielded some to Viet Nam. Later the M16A1 became standard. In 1964, Colt began selling the semi-automatic Colt AR-15 Sporter to the public.
Why would anyone think unConstitutional would be an impediment for Democrats?
Soon as I close the deal on Barksdale AFB, you can store them there. Small monthly fee will apply.
Does that example have “that thing in the back that goes up?”
What happened to the Wright-Patterson deal? Before that I heard that Groom Lake was on the list.
Snotty big-headed little aliens. I don't want to talk about it.
If weapons of war are so evil, why is a government chartered organization (Civilian Marksmanship Program) selling them to the general public?
I still have my old booklet WILLIAM’S converting military weapons to sporting use, from 1968.
After the conversions are complete it is still a military rifle dressed up a “sporting rifle”, and will still kill you just as dead.
The quandary over army surplus rifles began back in 1963 when JFK was murdered with a mail order Italian war rifle.
By 1968 they got a ban on the import of such “E-e-vil rifles!
Yet you could still get such rifles imported IF they had been issued to a POLICE FORCE, and not the military.
After the ban, it was found the real reason certain New England congressmen called for the ban on such rifles was they wanted to protect their home grown industry of Remington, Winchester and Savage.
Now such congressmen hate all American Made firearms and are driving them out of their states.
Like what the Georgia State Supreme Court said about the GA ban back in the 1840s..
* Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
I have fired a few on that list. I’m a big fan of old military rifles ... they’re incredibly robust, a touch heavy for caliber, and consequently mildly recoiling.
I’m honestly surprised the ‘rats haven’t shut down the CMP. CMP prices aren’t as reasonable as they used to be, though.
Re: the Kennedy rifle- it was a 6.5mm Carcano. Oddly enough, a large amount are appearing on the market due to the discovery of a huge weapons cache in Ethiopia. I bought a No.4 Mk1 Lee-Enfield from the same cache.
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