The idiocy of 'assault weapons' bans.

[M14 Shooter]

Leaving along for a moment than a ban, absent confiscation, on 'assault weapons' does nothing to reduce the number of 'assault weapons' in the US...

Pretty simple illustration here.

Three rifles.
Under the praised and ballyhooed 1994 Schumer/Clinton AWB, two of these rifles are 'assault weapons'.
One is not. In fact, it was legally purchased, new, in December of 2000, while the AWB was in effect.

Three questions:
- Which of the three is not an 'assault weapon'?-
- Why is it not an 'assault weapon'?
- Given this, will a ban on 'assault weapons' accomplish anything?

Please do try as hard as you can to respond with facts and reason.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Leaving along for a moment than a ban, absent confiscation, on 'assault weapons' does nothing to reduce the number of 'assault weapons' in the US...

Pretty simple illustration here.

Three rifles.
Under the praised and ballyhooed 1994 Schumer/Clinton AWB, two of these rifles are 'assault weapons'.
One is not. In fact, it was legally purchased, new, in December of 2000, while the AWB was in effect.

Three questions:
- Which of the three is not an 'assault weapon'?-
- Why is it not an 'assault weapon'?
- Given this, will a ban on 'assault weapons' accomplish anything?

Please do try as hard as you can to respond with facts and reason.


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Top one was legal.

Less scary looking?

 

[g5000]

Leaving along for a moment than a ban, absent confiscation, on 'assault weapons' does nothing to reduce the number of 'assault weapons' in the US...

Pretty simple illustration here.

Three rifles.
Under the praised and ballyhooed 1994 Schumer/Clinton AWB, two of these rifles are 'assault weapons'.
One is not. In fact, it was legally purchased, new, in December of 2000, while the AWB was in effect.

Three questions:
- Which of the three is not an 'assault weapon'?-
- Why is it not an 'assault weapon'?
- Given this, will a ban on 'assault weapons' accomplish anything?

Please do try as hard as you can to respond with facts and reason.


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Are any of them legal by California's assault weapon ban definitions?

 

[task0778]

Top one was legal.

Less scary looking?

top one has longer barrel.

The thing if it is, you can buy 3 or 4 semi-auto pistols for the price of an AR-15 and kill just as many people before the cops show up. A ban on assault weapons merely means a shooter will use a different gun. A ban does nothing to solve the problem. It does score political points for the democrats though, which is their main goal.

Look at these 2 guns:

Both are mechanically identical. They fire the same cartridge; they have the same effective range, the same rate of fire, and the same mechanical accuracy. But under the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), only one of these guns, the lower one in the photograph, was banned as an "assault weapon" due to the folding stock and pistol-grip design. Features like a folding stock or muzzle brake have little effect on the function of a firearm. Yet these cosmetic components were explicitly restricted as "common characteristics" of assault weapons in the language of the 1994 law. And despite the ban on the "assault" version, the fixed-stock Mini-14 was classified as a "firearm with legitimate utility" that could be sold by any licensed retailer. None of the features included or exempted in the AWB have any bearing on the lethality or mechanical function of the firearm itself.

 

[BluesLegend]

Thus proving an AR ban would only be the beginning. If anyone thinks Dems will stop there they are fools. The ban would be rapidly expanded to ban most all firearms because a complete ban is their true goal.

 

[BluesLegend]

top one has longer barrel.

The thing if it is, you can buy 3 or 4 semi-auto pistols for the price of an AR-15 and kill just as many people before the cops show up. A ban on assault weapons merely means a shooter will use a different gun. A ban does nothing to solve the problem. It does score political points for the democrats though, which is their main goal.

Look at these 2 guns:

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Both are mechanically identical. They fire the same cartridge; they have the same effective range, the same rate of fire, and the same mechanical accuracy. But under the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), only one of these guns, the lower one in the photograph, was banned as an "assault weapon" due to the folding stock and pistol-grip design. Features like a folding stock or muzzle brake have little effect on the function of a firearm. Yet these cosmetic components were explicitly restricted as "common characteristics" of assault weapons in the language of the 1994 law. And despite the ban on the "assault" version, the fixed-stock Mini-14 was classified as a "firearm with legitimate utility" that could be sold by any licensed retailer. None of the features included or exempted in the AWB have any bearing on the lethality or mechanical function of the firearm itself.

My God politicians are DUMB!

 

[cnm]

Leaving along for a moment than a ban, absent confiscation, on 'assault weapons' does nothing to reduce the number of 'assault weapons' in the US...

While playing semantics saves school kids' lives.

Yeah, right.

 

[cnm]

Look at these 2 guns:

Shows the elegance of Trudeau's solution.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

While playing semantics saves school kids' lives.

Yeah, right.

Enough about "Gun Free Zones".

 

[laferia52]

Top one was legal.

Less scary looking?

so you are scared of weapons.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

so you are scared of weapons.

No, but the Dem twats are.

 

[cnm]

Enough about "Gun Free Zones".

True. The tree of freedom must be watered with the blood of pupils and teachers.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

True. The tree of freedom must be watered with the blood of pupils and teachers.

Dem twats aren't saving pupils or teachers.

 

[cnm]

 

[cnm]

Dem twats aren't saving pupils or teachers.

Americans think a few pupils and teachers is a bargain price for 'freedom'.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Americans think a few pupils and teachers is a bargain price for 'freedom'.

Dem twats aren't saving them.

 

[M14 Shooter]

While playing semantics saves school kids' lives.
Yeah, right.

Did you notice your inability to address the issue put you?
I did.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Welp,
We all knew this was a coming. Nobody was willing to stand up to them so it goes. Must not care.

All I ask.....
If you take away the handguns and scary "assault" rifles.....

DO NOT LEAVE THE HUNTING RIFLES since those make great mass casualty weapons as well.
People need to press this hard and in large numbers to our dear leaders.

 

[cnm]

 

[cnm]

Did you notice your inability to address the issue put you?
I did.

My ability to ignore a false equivalence? Well done.