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A new career awaits Democratic presidential candidates: offering advice to hunters.
EFL & My Special Little Touch Tuesday, Vermont Gov. Howard Dean explained his support for extending the assault weapons ban He continued: âBecuase when I hunt Le Deer I just want to wound and not kill them, and watch them escape so they will die by some roadside later on.â Charity Alert!... The most charitable interpretation is that the banâs proponents know [absolutely] nothing about guns. The âassault weapon banâ conjures up images of machine guns used by the military, which are surely not very useful in hunting deer. Yet, the 1994 federal assault weapons ban had nothing to do with machine guns, only semi-automatics, which fire one bullet per pull of the trigger. The firing mechanisms in semi-automatic and machine guns are completely different. The entire firing mechanism of a semi-automatic gun has to be gutted and replaced to turn it into a machine gun. Functionally, the banned semi-automatic guns are the same as other non-banned semi-automatic guns, firing the exact same bullets with the same rapidity and producing the exact same damage. The ban arbitrarily outlaws different guns based upon either their name or whether they have two or more cosmetic features, such as whether the gun could have a bayonet attached or whether the rifle might have a pistol grip. (This is what happens asshats who know nothing about such tools begin to tamper in another manâs toolbox.) While there were no studies or scientific basis offered for making these distinctions, the different names or cosmetic features were claimed to make these guns more attractive to criminals. With the sniper trial now going in Virginia, the media understandably focuses on the so-called âsniper rifle.â Yet, the .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle (search) used in the sniper killings was neither a âsniperâ rifle nor an âassault weapon.â In fact, it is such a low-powered rifle that most states ban it even for deer hunting precisely because of its low power, too frequently wounding and not killing deer. By contrast, the much-maligned AK-47 (only new semi-automatic versions of the gun were banned) uses a .30-caliber bullet that is actually well suited to hunting deer. I say we pin some antlers on the two snipersâAssclown and Asshatârub some musk on them and ah, er, let them take a walk through the Catoctin Mountains. Read the whole thing as they say. Posted by: Dragon Fly 2003-11-19 |
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