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All assault weapons all the time

The rhetoric is kicking up on weapons that look like assault weapons.

  • In Maryland, the state is looking to ban weapons that look like assault weapons. There’s a hearing scheduled.

    Update: more here.

  • Tennessee Democrat Ben West gets it right:

    Are “assault weapons” causing a problem on the street? No. Most experts define an assault weapon as a weapon capable of fully automatic firing. Assault weapons are machine guns and submachine guns. That type of weapon is not what I was being asked to address.

    Another use of the term “assault weapons” appeared in the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban where it was used to describe semi-automatic firearms that have mostly cosmetic features normally associated with military firearms. These semi-automatic weapons were called assault weapons because they “looked” bad, not because of what they could do.

  • Denise crunches the numbers:

    So, fewer than 3% of murders were committed with the guns McCarthy’s bill would most restrict. By contrast, 6.0% of all murders are committed with hands and feet (that includes pushing).

  • Tam on dumb laws:

    All questions of whether this passes the Constitutionality sniff test aside, it’s stuff like this that really erodes what little faith in government I have, (…and that ain’t much, folks.) If they’re this astoundingly inept when writing legislation about an industry I’m familiar with, then they are probably also equally clueless when writing legislation to muck up other industries I don’t know anything about, such as agriculture or banking. Now that’s scary.

  • 2 Responses to “All assault weapons all the time”

    1. _Jon Says:

      Tam’s quote reminds me of a story of two guys reading the paper.
      One is a physics expert and he complains that an article about a subject he has great knowledge is totally wrong and filled with inaccuracies. He complains about it to his friend the financial expert.
      The physics expert then reads an article about finances and asks his friend if the financial article is accurate.
      The financial expert points out that if they don’t do a good job on physics, how can he expect them to be good with financial information?

    2. 2nd Amendment Blogburst at Traction Control Says:

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