“In other words,” Sugarmann concludes in a triumphant “Gotcha!” moment, “they’re machine guns.”Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a broken clock being right--for all the wrong reasons. Anything to facilitate a deception if you're desperate and shameless enough...and what professional anti-rights fanatic isn't?
He’s right, you know. They are. At least according to the government. [More]
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Aside from the irony of this "machine gun" hysteria coming from the same guy who spouted the "assault weapon" nonsense about "The weapons' menacing looks . . . " there's also this little tidbit from which to derive a chuckle:
ReplyDelete3. Civilian assault weapons are not machine guns. They are semiautomatic weapons. (Since 1986 federal law has banned the sale to civilians of new machine guns.) The trigger of a semiautomatic weapon must be pulled separately for each round fired. It is a mistake to call civilian assault weapons "automatic weapons" or "machine guns."
4. However, this is a distinction without a difference in terms of killing power. Civilian semiautomatic assault weapons incorporate all of the functional design features that make assault weapons so deadly. They are arguably more deadly than military versions, because most experts agree that semiautomatic fire is more accurate—and thus more lethal—than automatic fire.Kinda makes it sound as if Sugarmann should be arguing that the Bushmaster ACR is safer than other civilian rifles of military pattern.
In "Slaughterhouse-Five," author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- and the character representing him, Billy Pilgrim -- draws a color-coded timeline of the characters in the story. A big area of crosshatching represents World War II, and Vonnegut talks about the characters whose lines don't come out on the other side. One is fellow POW "poor old Edgar Derby," shot for looting by the Nazis when he picks up a teacup that miraculously survived the firebombing of Dresden.
ReplyDeleteSugarmann obviously thinks his line continues on after the war he obviously wants.
It WILL take a war to take the semi-autos, and we're not joshing.