Picture of Assault Weapon before and after the ban?

[TweetyBird]

Yea, I know the draw of assualt weapons is for target practice.

And *I'm* insane?

Oh - btw - hitting a bullseye with the aid of a mechanical device (scope, lazer) is not much of a sport either.

[Russian]

Originally posted by TweetyBird
Yea, I know the draw of assualt weapons is for target practice.

And *I'm* insane?

Oh - btw - hitting a bullseye with the aid of a mechanical device (scope, lazer) is not much of a sport either.

What else are they for? To take over neighbor yards? How much crime is done by "assault weappns" Can you even tell what assault weapon is?

[Martlet]

Originally posted by TweetyBird
Yea, I know the draw of assualt weapons is for target practice.

And *I'm* insane?

Oh - btw - hitting a bullseye with the aid of a mechanical device (scope, lazer) is not much of a sport either.

Do you even realize what constitutes an assault weapon?

[TweetyBird]

Define your question - under the law, or under practicality?

Under practicality, an assualt weapon is anything that you don't have to load up with gunpowder, and under practicality, that is what the second amendment had in mind regarding personal armament.

If you think for one second the right was to guarantee anyone to possess weapons of mass destruction (taking out 20 people in 30 seconds is pretty much mass destruction), than enjoy your rhetoric at the next NRA convention.

[Martlet]

Originally posted by TweetyBird
Define your question - under the law, or under practicality?

Under practicality, an assualt weapon is anything that you don't have to load up with gunpowder, and under practicality, that is what the second amendment had in mind regarding personal armament.

If you think for one second the right was to guarantee anyone to possess weapons of mass destruction (taking out 20 people in 30 seconds is pretty much mass destruction), than enjoy your rhetoric at the next NRA convention.

I'm talking law.  What was banned by the assault weapon ban.  What were the criteria for determining an assault weapon?

[Thrawn]

Guns don't kill people, folding stocks kill people.

[john9001]

talk about 'logic", the jump between a rifle and nukes is very very long, to say nothing about the practicality of owning "nukes"

liberal logic is very dangerous.

[rabbidrabbit]

Geez tweety,  you might want to educate yourself further before spouting off like this .  It really reflects poorly on you.

[Elfie]

Originally posted by TweetyBird
I'm glad our goverment doesn't follow the same logic that "guns don't kill , people do" when it comes to nuclear weapons. Can you imagine - "nukes don't kill, tyrants do."

You have an assualt weapon for 3 reasons - law enforcement, to kill people or pretend you kill people.

There are other reasons to have an *assault weapon*. The AR-15 is ideal for younger target shooters because of its low recoil. Some people collect guns, just to name a couple.

[TweetyBird]

Well, I'll look it up if you want, but I concede the law was impotent. There are far more small caliber automatic weapons used in crime, than ak-47's, and there's no good reason to own a small automatic weapon.

Here's the point - I have NO problem with someone owning a gun up to the task of defending themselves from a *reasonable* intrusion scenario, or for hunting. But guns designed to defend from a well armed ary, well thats just wacko, and am quite suprised that more aren't upset with the NRA for trying to blur the difference.

How many gun shows have you been to? I've been to a few. And where most people seem pretty normal, I have met a few I back slowly away from. People who giggle for no apparent reason make me nervous.

[Yeager]

Today more than ever I feel secure in my home and community with a nicely oiled and maintained semi automatic assault rifle and half a dozen 30 round clips loaded and at the ready.

tweetybird and his ilk have been around for as long as I can remember and they will never prevail over me.

[TweetyBird]

>> It really reflects poorly on you.
<<

Oh well, there goes my election to most popular.

I don't care how it *looks* - I aint running for anything. I don't care if it takes 10 posts to get why I feel as I do across. I've never figured I was some great communicator.  He - I don't think for one second the people who authored the 2nd ammendment considered automatic weapons, drive by shootings,  drug related gang warfare or any of the regular stuff that happens in major cities now. I think the NRA is trying to obscure that and I'm gonna say it. It might take a few posts to say it right, but I'm going to say it. So, call Edwards and SUE me.

[TweetyBird]

>>Today more than ever I feel secure in my home and community with a nicely oiled and maintained semi automatic assault rifle and half a dozen 30 round clips loaded and at the ready.
<<

I live in New Orleans where we average about a murder per day.
My back door is open (the storm door is closed) as I write this.
I am not in fear right now.

Where the hell do you live that you need a well oiled gun and 30 clips "loaded and ready" to make you feel secure? You selling cocaine or something?

[FUNKED1]

What a maroon.

[john9001]

Originally posted by TweetyBird
Well, I'll look it up if you want, but I concede the law was impotent. There are far more small caliber automatic weapons used in crime, than ak-47's, and there's no good reason to own a small automatic weapon.
 

assualt weapons ban did not ban automatic weapons, automatic weapons were already baned*and still are, the assualt weapons ban baned the way guns looked.


*special weapons permit needed to own automatic weapons.