PavePusher
Regular Member
"Reinstate ban on military-style assault weapons
This country needs to re-impose a new, effective ban on military-style assault weapons.
Banning semiautomatic assault weapons designed to kill lots of people quickly isn't quite as simple at it may appear on the surface. That must not keep us from trying.
In fact, even given myriad defects in the now-expired federal assault-weapons ban, we could do a lot worse than essentially reinstating it as originally written. Flawed though it was, it reduced the flow of such weapons.
Even better, Congress should consider emulating California's assault-weapons ban.
The 1994-2004 federal ban was riddled with loopholes. The law outlawed the sale and possession of 19 specific types of weapons; it also outlawed "copycat" weapons that had two or more combat features - such as bayonet mounts, threads for silencers, pistol grips or flash suppressors. But if you made a copycat without two of the listed combat characteristics, it was legal."
http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/e...9-92aa-5d92-93bf-475d1beea35b.html?mode=story
And a further host of astounding inaccuracies, misrepresentations and untruths at the link.
This country needs to re-impose a new, effective ban on military-style assault weapons.
Banning semiautomatic assault weapons designed to kill lots of people quickly isn't quite as simple at it may appear on the surface. That must not keep us from trying.
In fact, even given myriad defects in the now-expired federal assault-weapons ban, we could do a lot worse than essentially reinstating it as originally written. Flawed though it was, it reduced the flow of such weapons.
Even better, Congress should consider emulating California's assault-weapons ban.
The 1994-2004 federal ban was riddled with loopholes. The law outlawed the sale and possession of 19 specific types of weapons; it also outlawed "copycat" weapons that had two or more combat features - such as bayonet mounts, threads for silencers, pistol grips or flash suppressors. But if you made a copycat without two of the listed combat characteristics, it was legal."
http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/e...9-92aa-5d92-93bf-475d1beea35b.html?mode=story
And a further host of astounding inaccuracies, misrepresentations and untruths at the link.
