DiFi has decided to go full retard with her all encompassing gun and magazine prohibition bill.
It will never go anywhere in Congress. What it will do is seriously piss people off and motivate more to join/donate to gun organizations which in turn further damages the gun control movement. I view it as a Hail Mary pass and a sign of panic from the antis that they are losing the gun control argument.
I want my Second Amendment rights back. You know, the ones grandpa had. Like the right to buy a gun via mail order, which is now the Internet, and have it shipped directly to my house without having to pay a dealer to process the transaction or fill out a form for those bozos at BATFE (why would anyone in their right mind want to fill out a form for people who run guns to Mexican drug cartels?). Mail order guns were legal until 1968. Grandpa, and millions of other Americans, didn’t have a problem with it, until Kennedy got shot, and the means by which his killer got his gun was blamed for the crime, and millions of Americans suddenly got their rights cut off – that was a crazy thing to do.
I want to be able to own fully automatic firearms, without having to make a federal case out of it. They were as legal as any other guns until 1934. Now, I know that full auto wastes bullets, and that “spray and pray” is a poor, but expensive, way to shoot, but I would still like to have a Thompson submachine gun just for the fun of it. And I don’t want some old relic; I want a brand new one, with a titanium receiver. Fully automatic guns are the ones that are the most fun to shoot, although I don’t know that personally, since I live in the oppressive state of New York, which doesn’t believe in American freedom like Americans in other states do, not even the watered down freedom that we still have left.
The Thompson would also mean that I would be able to own a short-barreled gun with a shoulder stock, which is also illegal now.
I’d also like to be able to own a short-barreled shotgun, like the ones that Bloomberg’s NYPD has, since they are better for home defense than the longer barreled shotguns, which are the only kind that we’re allowed to have. The long ones are easier for a burglar to take away from you, and they’re much more awkward when checking out things that go bump in the night.
I also want my right back to have proper things on my guns, such as a bayonet lug, flash suppressor and standard US military magazines. The US Marines seem to find them indispensable, and I do admire those folks in the Marines and how they gave their lives over the years to protect our freedom, or sadly, what’s now left of our freedom.
I also want to be able to possess and carry a handgun for my protection without a permission slip, just like grandpa was able to do before 1911.
It’s hard to believe how much of our rights have been whittled away over the years. I want them back. Let’s have that national conversation.
We have to have the “Why Feinstein is full of shit” conversation first.
Let’s hope you are correct about her proposal’s chances…and the prediction for more money for gun rights organizations.
As I posted to a litle internation group that I am a part of:
As you know, we have had the tragedy of the Sandy Hook School killings here in the US, in which 26 people were killed. As a gun collector, and an ardent supporter of the right to keep and bear arms, I am having to deal with the results of that on the Internet, every day. It is time consuming and demands my thoughts. However, as anyone in Europe knows, the Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews. If the right to keep and bear arms prevents that, but requires the death of 26 innocents, then they will have bought the lives of millions with their sacrifice. In the greatest humility, I thank them for that.
What more can I say.