Don’t tell the VPC
Donald Sensing reports that Tennessee State Troopers will be carrying hunting rifles.
They aren’t assault rifles because they don’t have telescopic stocks, flash hiders, threaded barrels for flash hiders, grenade launchers or bayonet lugs. The only thing you can hunt in Tennessee with 5.56X45MM ammo is varmints. At least, that’s going by the picture he posts.
However, going to the Bushmaster website, we see that they are clearly being issued assault weapons as defined by law. Yet, the police are calling them hunting rifles.
I just find it amusing. The THP spokesmen is right that they are not assault weapons in the traditional sense of the word because they are not machine guns.
April 26th, 2004 at 4:12 pm
“Assault Weapon” is pretty much a fabrication of gun-banners, whether or not it has the dreaded “semiautomatic” in front of it.
Maybe he meant to say that they weren’t “Assault Rifles.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle
April 26th, 2004 at 5:00 pm
Well, after all, “assault weapons” have only ONE PURPOSE: to kill as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. They therefore have NO Place in Our Society. Nobody Needs an Assault Weapon, including the police.
April 27th, 2004 at 12:02 am
to kill as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.
That sounds so negative. Why not just substitute “medium” into the task definition of a sub-machine gun: multiple targets, at close range, when time is a factor.
April 29th, 2004 at 8:57 am
Thursday Gun Links #15
My wife said the greatest thing. “I was going to plan something tonight, but I remembered tonight’s the night you write the Thursday Gun Links. We can go out another time.” What a gal. SayUncle is posting pics of his…