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by Mary Katharine Ham
January 26, 2013
Hey, theyve gotta have someone who can sell high-powered firearms to Mexican drug cartels, amirite? Youve heard about the 158 weapons youll no longer be able to use. But what about the exemptions?
More on exemptions, from the Huffington Post:
Radley Balko has a new book out, which might help remind liberals why you might not want to be stuck with a 7-round pistol when, say, an armed drug raid mistakenly descends on your house and family Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of Americas Police Forces
Jacob Sullum notes a more sinister thought process behind Feinsteins very specific list-making and exempting:
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Of course: Feinstein?s assault weapons ban exempts government officials « Hot Air
January 26, 2013
Hey, theyve gotta have someone who can sell high-powered firearms to Mexican drug cartels, amirite? Youve heard about the 158 weapons youll no longer be able to use. But what about the exemptions?
Not everyone will have to abide by Senator Dianne Feinsteins gun control bill. If the proposed legislation becomes law, government officials and others will be exempt.
Mrs. Feinsteins measure would exempt more than 2,200 types of hunting and sporting rifles; guns manually operated by bolt, pump, lever or slide action; and weapons used by government officials, law enforcement and retired law enforcement personnel, the Washington Times reports.
Mrs. Feinsteins measure would exempt more than 2,200 types of hunting and sporting rifles; guns manually operated by bolt, pump, lever or slide action; and weapons used by government officials, law enforcement and retired law enforcement personnel, the Washington Times reports.
More on exemptions, from the Huffington Post:
Finally, the bill includes a number of exemptions: It exempts more than 2,200 hunting and sporting weapons; any gun manually operated by a bolt, pump, lever or slide action; any weapons used by government officials and law enforcement; and any weapons legally owned as of the date of the bills enactment.
Im always confused by how liberals the segment of the population most obsessed with constantly telling us of our countrys sins, its governments brutal overreaches, its occasional tyranny, and its fundamental disregard for the justice it promises suddenly decide the idea of governments becoming tyrannical is a paranoid delusion once the wary citizen is a gun owner. Presumably youre only allowed to believe the government might become tyrannical and still be a respected political figure and college professor if your weapon of choice was a nail bomb meant for Ft. Dix.
Im always confused by how liberals the segment of the population most obsessed with constantly telling us of our countrys sins, its governments brutal overreaches, its occasional tyranny, and its fundamental disregard for the justice it promises suddenly decide the idea of governments becoming tyrannical is a paranoid delusion once the wary citizen is a gun owner. Presumably youre only allowed to believe the government might become tyrannical and still be a respected political figure and college professor if your weapon of choice was a nail bomb meant for Ft. Dix.
Radley Balko has a new book out, which might help remind liberals why you might not want to be stuck with a 7-round pistol when, say, an armed drug raid mistakenly descends on your house and family Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of Americas Police Forces
Jacob Sullum notes a more sinister thought process behind Feinsteins very specific list-making and exempting:
Feinstein brags that her bill protects the rights of law-abiding citizens who use guns for hunting, household defense or legitimate recreational purposes. One way it supposedly does that is by excluding 2,258 legitimate hunting and sporting rifles and shotguns by specific make and model. If those guns are not on the list of specifically named assault weapons and do not meet the criteria Feinstein has laid out for that arbitrary category, why should they be mentioned at all? Feinstein seems to think anything not specifically allowed is prohibited, but that is not how laws are supposed to work in a free society.
Another way Feinstein protects the rights of law-abiding citizens is by graciously allowing current owners of newly defined assault weapons to keep them. She emphasizes that her bill includes a grandfather clause that specifically exempts all assault weapons lawfully possessed at the date of enactment from the ban. But Feinstein and her allies have been assuring us for two decades that assault weapons have no legitimate uses. It is hard to reconcile that claim, which is central to the argument for banning these guns, with Feinsteins concession that they are used for hunting, household defense or legitimate recreational purposes. Her bill would require buyers of grandfathered assault weapons to undergo background checks, but there is no way to enforce that rule unless all those guns are registered, and in any event it is not a very effective way of stopping mass shooters, who typically do not have disqualifying criminal or psychiatric records.
Another way Feinstein protects the rights of law-abiding citizens is by graciously allowing current owners of newly defined assault weapons to keep them. She emphasizes that her bill includes a grandfather clause that specifically exempts all assault weapons lawfully possessed at the date of enactment from the ban. But Feinstein and her allies have been assuring us for two decades that assault weapons have no legitimate uses. It is hard to reconcile that claim, which is central to the argument for banning these guns, with Feinsteins concession that they are used for hunting, household defense or legitimate recreational purposes. Her bill would require buyers of grandfathered assault weapons to undergo background checks, but there is no way to enforce that rule unless all those guns are registered, and in any event it is not a very effective way of stopping mass shooters, who typically do not have disqualifying criminal or psychiatric records.
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