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Home Front: Politix
Sheila Jackson Lee Confuses AR-15 for 10 Moving Boxes and a Heavy Machine Gun
2019-09-24
[PJMEDIA] Introducing her new gun control legislation, Congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee
......the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome......
 (D-Texas) proved conclusively that she's just too uninformed to go anywhere near the subject. She claims to have "held an AR-15 in my hand," which weighed as much as "10 boxes that you might be moving." She also claimed the rifle fired a .50 caliber round, and that "these kinds of bullets need to be licensed and do not need to be on the street."

"I held an AR-15 in my hand, I wish I hadn’t. It is as heavy as 10 boxes that you might be moving. And the bullet that is utilized, a .50 caliber, these kinds of bullets need to be licensed and do not need to be on the street." - Rep. @JacksonLeeTX18 pic.twitter.com/U71ir6BHZH

If Lee wants to ban 90-pound .50 caliber AR-15s, I say, "Why not?" While she's at it, Lee could put a ban on flying cars, unicorns, and doing seven impossible things before breakfast. If Lee wants to get heavy .50 machine guns off the streets, well, first she's going to have to get some on the streets.
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Posted by:Fred

#8  Im also sure shes never picked up moving box.

Thats what her peeps do for her.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2019-09-24 09:21  

#7  Sheila Jackson Lee is truly representative of her district.
Posted by: Solomon Hupump7531   2019-09-24 09:03  

#6  What's that saying about "you get the kind of government yo deserve." Why is this semi-functional "special needs" type still collecting a gov't paycheck?
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-09-24 08:49  

#5   "We have the best Congress money can buy."
~ Will Rogers
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-09-24 06:21  

#4  "Jimmy, that fat lady on TV. Isn't she the one asked to see your electric 5mm ZombieHunter X ?"

Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-24 05:27  

#3  TL/DR: "She keeps using that word (.50 caliber). I don't think it means what she thinks it means."

Whereas the other words she's using ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-09-24 01:45  

#2  The AR-15 modified to fire the .50 Beowulf proprietary cartridge exists: "...the .50 Beowulf is best described as a low-velocity, heavy caliber, making its ballistics roughly equivalent to those of early .45-70 Government rounds rather than the higher pressure rounds tolerated by lever-action rifles such as the Marlin Model 1895."

By the way: The .45-70 rifle cartridge, also known as .45-70 Government, was developed at the U.S. Army 's Springfield Armory for use in the Springfield Model 1873, which is known to collectors as the "Trapdoor Springfield.". Ooh! Scary! Not that any sane person would want to be shot by this round, but a big, bad sniper/machine gun bullet it ain't.

TL/DR: "She keeps using that word (.50 caliber). I don't think it means what she thinks it means."
Posted by: magpie   2019-09-24 00:49  

#1  Maybe she is confusing the AR-15 with a Bofors gun. It's an easy mistake to make if you are as ignorant as she is.

"When crew-served weapons are outlawed, only outlaws will have crew-served weapons."
Posted by: SteveS   2019-09-24 00:25  

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