Originally posted by lazs2
guppy.. maybe you forgot the assault weapons ban? the high capacity mag ban? How bout the .50 caliber ban in kalifornia... as goes kalifornia... so goes the rest of the democrat run states..
Maybe you don't care about either but do you really think the democrats will stop there?
Every bad, unconstitutional gun law ever passed was put forth and passed by democrats. They introduce hundreds of new gun laws a year. How is it paranoid to think that they will continue to do so?
They are the enemy. I can not comprimise with them in any way that I can see. They have nothing I want.
Oh.. whoever talked about the KKK... they realize that was formed and run by democrats right? At the hight of racial inequality in the south.. the democrats were running things there and fought every measure to bring equal rights to all citizens.
lazs
Laz, it's the idea that one label covers all people. You point it out beautifully with the KKK comparison. Southern Democrats were far more to the right then most Republicans. Dixicrats I think was the term. That hardly applies to Minnesota Democrats where I live.
My Dad voted Republican in Minnesota all his life because they best fit his beliefs. he'd vote Democrat in Minnesota now because the Republicans have moved too far right for him while the Dems have come much more centrest (not sure I spelled that right)
The introduction of a bill that could become law is just that. It doesn't mean it's going to pass. Certain folks make their name on certain issues. It's like the representative that introduces the Draft bill every chance he gets. That's his signature. The AR15 board folks all panicked about the first bill introduced this term. One guy finally piped up and said, that representative introduces a gun control bill every year.
As for the high cap magazine part of the last ban. It had absolutely no teeth as there were so many high cap mags out there, that all it did was make more money for the folks who sold them.
My son was old enough to get into the hobby during the ban. He became a real AK expert. I learned a ton about all the different variants from him. It's amazing how many 30 round mags are in this house from that time.
His Polish underfolder AK47 is a good example of the 'teeth' the last AWB had. When he had it built, the guy who built it, pinned the folding stock so it wouldn't fold. He soldered a bead of metal on the bayonet lug so it wasn't usable. Other then that, it was a beautifully built semi-auto AK.
The day the ban died, the pin came out and the bead of metal came off.
That particular ban was nothing but window dressing that those who voted for could point to and claim they'd accomplished something. It was laughable if you paid any attention to it at all.
All it did was raise prices on "pre-ban" rifles, making a ton of money for those guys because there were folks who were outraged they couldn't have a bayonet lug or a flash suppressor. And you could get all the hi-cap mags you wanted, they just cost a few bucks more.
