2aguy
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This is a detailed look at the irrational stupidity of banning gun magazines based on how many bullets they hold….
Though the section states “Unintended Victims,” the truth is these people are actually the intended targets of the anti-gun extremists….using Red Tape and legal warfare against normal gun owners….
In March of 2010, mechanic and tinkerer Tien Duc Nguyen was arrested for possession of a box of parts and magazines he happily showed to investigators visiting his shop. Nguyen was charged and sentenced under an assault weapon and large‐capacity magazine statute. In an opinion that opens with a particularly strange warning to “eware of the dangers of the Internet[,]” the California 4th District Court of Appeal upheld Nguyen’s six‐year sentence for “attempted assault weapon activity,”44 despite the fact that the parts Nguyen purchased were completely unregulated, unassembled, and could have been assembled into any manner of compliant firearms.
In 2002, Daniel G., a minor, was torn from his family and made a ward of the state for holding a weapon capable of accepting a “high‐capacity” magazine.45A neighbor spotted Daniel and several other youths handing around a rifle and called the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department. When the deputies found the rifle, the youths were charged with possession of an assault weapon. Nobody was shot, robbed, or hurt, and no ownership of the rifle was established. Daniel’s crime was simply the curious handling of a popular rifle.
Though the section states “Unintended Victims,” the truth is these people are actually the intended targets of the anti-gun extremists….using Red Tape and legal warfare against normal gun owners….
Unintended Victims
Instead of discouraging criminal conduct using certain weapons and magazines, current magazine bans draw an arbitrary line that can ruin lives and tear families apart with little to no countervailing benefit. We need not engage in the theoretical to grasp the difficulties inherent in these laws, as court records are rife with harrowing scenarios caused by their implementation.In March of 2010, mechanic and tinkerer Tien Duc Nguyen was arrested for possession of a box of parts and magazines he happily showed to investigators visiting his shop. Nguyen was charged and sentenced under an assault weapon and large‐capacity magazine statute. In an opinion that opens with a particularly strange warning to “eware of the dangers of the Internet[,]” the California 4th District Court of Appeal upheld Nguyen’s six‐year sentence for “attempted assault weapon activity,”44 despite the fact that the parts Nguyen purchased were completely unregulated, unassembled, and could have been assembled into any manner of compliant firearms.
In 2002, Daniel G., a minor, was torn from his family and made a ward of the state for holding a weapon capable of accepting a “high‐capacity” magazine.45A neighbor spotted Daniel and several other youths handing around a rifle and called the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department. When the deputies found the rifle, the youths were charged with possession of an assault weapon. Nobody was shot, robbed, or hurt, and no ownership of the rifle was established. Daniel’s crime was simply the curious handling of a popular rifle.
