Thread: Renew the ban on assault weapons now!

In fact, the only people that died were the robbers, once the police were able to arm themselves with something more penetrating than handguns and shotguns. By the way, the gun store that the police borrowed the rifles from? Yeah, the owner was charged with violating California gun laws and closed down. Didn't do a background check or whatever. Nice, huh?

the practice of special interest groups putting their own profits and/or self-interests over the public good. When police are outgunned by thugs on the street and Mexico is terrorized because of assault weapons coming out of the U.S., gun manufacturers and the NRA are the special interests at the heart of it. When creeps like Limbaugh, Palin and the Faux News lineup try to whip people into violence, Republicans and the Rupert Murdochs of the...

The last time police line-of-duty shooting deaths was this low was 1956 . The sky is not, in fact, falling, and outlawing rifle handgrips that stick out is absolutely irrelevant. http://www.nleomf.com/TheMemorial/Facts/2008_endyear_Fi...

that my first response to your OP came off kinda snotty. I'm sorry about that, not sure what I was thinking!

Edited on Tue Aug-18-09 01:23 PM by TxRider It might have even made more carry them there... All that ban did was make manufacturers remove cosmetic add-ons like pistol grips and bayonets from the rifles, it never banned a gun or stopped a sale. It was a very silly, and 100% ineffective law, passed only so the politicians could tout that they banned something to ignorant voters when in reality they did nothing.

I ask for a definition, and I get an arbitrary list of brand names and safety features. This is going to be easy.

And that guy's AR-15 was probably legal under the AWB. The AWB would do very little in this instance to protect Obama. My own preference would be for the Secret Service to extend the protection zone out to say a mile or so for anyone who wants to be near an Obama event with a gun. Bushies isolated anyone wearing a t-shirt or carrying a sign they didn't like well away from Bush - I say do the same to these clowns.

Edited on Wed Aug-19-09 05:50 PM by slackmaster Not fewer. Hell no. But we should all listen to the comments of the ones who think that it is a right to carry a weapon that can kill dozens in one "click." Thanks for demonstrating that you have been taken in by the deception that the AW ban had anything to do with fully automatic weapons. K&U