September 13, 200421 yr Forwards thinking! Not Backwards!!! Military-style assault weapons for sale again in U.S. http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...guns040913.html
September 13, 200421 yr Forwards thinking! Not Backwards!!! Military-style assault weapons for sale again in U.S. http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...guns040913.html And all of our congressmen did nothing to prevent the expiration. Thank you, now people can walk around with tec 9's. I feel much safer
September 13, 200421 yr From what they said on the radio, they have no intentions of renewing it either. I hope the radio was full of it this morning because they do need to renew it.
September 13, 200421 yr And all of our congressmen did nothing to prevent the expiration. Thank you, now people can walk around with tec 9's. I feel much safer people already were, but i would hate to burst your buble.
September 13, 200421 yr people already were, but i would hate to burst your buble. The mass proliferation of military style assault weapons to the general public is absolutely mindboggling. The ban did cut down on the sheer number of these weapons in the streets. Nobody is naive to think that these bans automatically get rid of all these weapons but there is no logical or feasible reason for random citizens to need an assault rifle.
September 13, 200421 yr The mass proliferation of military style assault weapons to the general public is absolutely mindboggling. The ban did cut down on the sheer number of these weapons in the streets. Nobody is naive to think that these bans automatically get rid of all these weapons but there is no logical or feasible reason for random citizens to need an assault rifle. well if the streets still have them and its not creating many deaths than why would it be such a big deal to have them in households, its fun shooting those guns off.
September 14, 200421 yr It is important to remember that the ban was based on strictly cosmetic appearances. Ownership of fully automatic machine guns by private citizens was outlawed already and still is. The guns outlawed in 1994 were no more powerful than semiautomatic deer rifles, nor did they function differently. They were not the choice of criminals, who preferred and prefer either concealable handguns or illegal automatic weapons. Surveys of weapons seized during arrests in California, for example, found these cosmetic "assault weapons" were used in about 2 percent of crimes. http://www.valleystar.com/editorial_more.p...=54763_0_28_0_M You're dealing with a situation where you literally have thousands of semiautomatic rifles that are not banned out there that have the same fire power, the same killing power, the same semiautomatic mechanism as in these so-called assault weapons that have been banned. And it's kind of a farce, I think, on the American public to say we're going to take a few weapons because they look bad, because they have stocks, collapsible stocks, or whatever the characteristics are, and take them off the streets and say we're going to ban them. And frankly, that doesn't make sense. And it's also true that less than 1 percent of all of the crimes committed with guns in this country are committed with these so-called assault weapons. So to me, I don't think that that's the right thing to do. The way to solve this problem, violence with guns, is to get tough, to put real penalties in there for people who use the guns. -REP. BILL McCOLLUM, R Florida
September 14, 200421 yr Goldmember, that guy can't be a Congressman. He was talking with common sense.
September 14, 200421 yr Goldmember, that guy can't be a Congressman. He was talking with common sense.
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