"I don't have an issue with guns. I just have an issue with these guns," said 75-year-old Stan Smith of assault rifles from his rural home near Potlatch. [More]
Hey, I'm old and I think he's full of sh!t - Just getting attention by virtue signaling. Who the hell would be stupid enough to give him a $1500 gun for a $500 contribution? _revjen45
Looks like the "old fool" is conflating "assault weapons" with "assault rifles." That's pretty common these days and has been since Josh Sugarman's Violence Policy Center white paper suggested to the Clinton Administration that exactly that confusion among the public would make it easy to pas what became the 1994 AWB.
Not to put too fine a point on it, a "low end" semi-auto AR-15, an "assault weapon" by some definitions, could perhaps be bought for $500 or so. But a "low end" select fire M-16 "assault rifle", by DoD's definition will set you back upwards of $15,000.
Hey, I'm old and I think he's full of sh!t - Just getting attention by virtue signaling.
ReplyDeleteWho the hell would be stupid enough to give him a $1500 gun for a $500 contribution?
_revjen45
Looks like the "old fool" is conflating "assault weapons" with "assault rifles." That's pretty common these days and has been since Josh Sugarman's Violence Policy Center white paper suggested to the Clinton Administration that exactly that confusion among the public would make it easy to pas what became the 1994 AWB.
ReplyDeleteNot to put too fine a point on it, a "low end" semi-auto AR-15, an "assault weapon" by some definitions, could perhaps be bought for $500 or so. But a "low end" select fire M-16 "assault rifle", by DoD's definition will set you back upwards of $15,000.