GunnSmokeer
Senior Member
This new push to ban "assault rifles" after the Florida school shooting (done by a teenage student with an AR rifle and several 10-round magazines) will impact hunting rifles, too.
Let's ask ourselves this question: What's the real functional difference in lethality (in the hands of a criminal or nutcase) between "A" and "B" as described below:
A = a semi-auto rifle that has a wooden stock and a plain barrel, no muzzle threads, no iron sights, just bases for a conventional rifle scope, in a certain sporting varmint rifle caliber, using detachable magazines, and the gun came from the factory with a 5-shot magazine.
B = A semi-auto variant of a select-fire military or law enforcement rifle that has a heavy barrel milled to accept grenade launchers, a threaded muzzle, wearing a recoil brake at the muzzle, a ventilated heat shield / forward upper hand guard, a pistol grip, a folding stock, a rapid-fire trigger (shoots on release as well as on the pull), a bayonet lug, in a certain military caliber like 5.56 mm, and the gun uses detachable magazines, and comes with a 30-round magazine standard.
If you say that all the features that differentiate these guns are cosmetic and not important to a mass-murderer, and they key things they have in common (semi-auto, detachable box mags, and calibers with similar ballistics) are all that matter... YOU'RE RIGHT.
AND THE ANTI-GUN ACTIVISTS KNOW IT (or will soon learn it) TOO.
They don't just want to ban tricked-out tactical guns that look like what soldiers and SWAT cops carry.
They want to ban ALL centerfire semi-automatic guns, at least all that use detachable mags. Maybe they will accept civilians keeping semi-auto rifles that use internal mags that hold 4-5 rounds and cannot quickly be reloaded.
If you don't believe me, go to Dick's Sporting Goods and look at their gun racks. No semi-autos rifles or carbines except .22 rimfires are allowed. Not even pistol caliber carbines that use 15-17 round magazines, which is nonsensical because Dick's continues to sell handguns that use those mags! They don't mind pistols that hold 17 rounds of 9mm, but you can't get a carbine that does so.
I think that when the Anti-gun activists have their way, every gun store will look like dicks.
No more coyote hunting with AR rifles.
No more long-range varmint guns based on an AR action, but with a 22" bull barrel and topped with a 6X - 18X scope.
No more Browning BAR, no more Remington 7400, no Ruger PC carbine in 9mm to serve as a close range predator eliminator to keep handy in the cab of the tractor or behind the barn door.
What they're doing will eliminate a lot of sporting guns, too. Not just paramilitary guns.
They've already done it nationwide in Australia.
Pump and lever action guns with limited magazine capacity are OK and you can get a license to own them, but NOT any semi-auto centerfire rifle.
Let's ask ourselves this question: What's the real functional difference in lethality (in the hands of a criminal or nutcase) between "A" and "B" as described below:
A = a semi-auto rifle that has a wooden stock and a plain barrel, no muzzle threads, no iron sights, just bases for a conventional rifle scope, in a certain sporting varmint rifle caliber, using detachable magazines, and the gun came from the factory with a 5-shot magazine.
B = A semi-auto variant of a select-fire military or law enforcement rifle that has a heavy barrel milled to accept grenade launchers, a threaded muzzle, wearing a recoil brake at the muzzle, a ventilated heat shield / forward upper hand guard, a pistol grip, a folding stock, a rapid-fire trigger (shoots on release as well as on the pull), a bayonet lug, in a certain military caliber like 5.56 mm, and the gun uses detachable magazines, and comes with a 30-round magazine standard.
If you say that all the features that differentiate these guns are cosmetic and not important to a mass-murderer, and they key things they have in common (semi-auto, detachable box mags, and calibers with similar ballistics) are all that matter... YOU'RE RIGHT.
AND THE ANTI-GUN ACTIVISTS KNOW IT (or will soon learn it) TOO.
They don't just want to ban tricked-out tactical guns that look like what soldiers and SWAT cops carry.
They want to ban ALL centerfire semi-automatic guns, at least all that use detachable mags. Maybe they will accept civilians keeping semi-auto rifles that use internal mags that hold 4-5 rounds and cannot quickly be reloaded.
If you don't believe me, go to Dick's Sporting Goods and look at their gun racks. No semi-autos rifles or carbines except .22 rimfires are allowed. Not even pistol caliber carbines that use 15-17 round magazines, which is nonsensical because Dick's continues to sell handguns that use those mags! They don't mind pistols that hold 17 rounds of 9mm, but you can't get a carbine that does so.
I think that when the Anti-gun activists have their way, every gun store will look like dicks.
No more coyote hunting with AR rifles.
No more long-range varmint guns based on an AR action, but with a 22" bull barrel and topped with a 6X - 18X scope.
No more Browning BAR, no more Remington 7400, no Ruger PC carbine in 9mm to serve as a close range predator eliminator to keep handy in the cab of the tractor or behind the barn door.
What they're doing will eliminate a lot of sporting guns, too. Not just paramilitary guns.
They've already done it nationwide in Australia.
Pump and lever action guns with limited magazine capacity are OK and you can get a license to own them, but NOT any semi-auto centerfire rifle.
