[OT] Clinton Assault Weapon Ban Ending - was - RE: gmailinitiations

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Kelley 
> 
> <snip>
> Something, that wouldn't be possible to do legally today. Because
> > the assault weapons still cannot be fully automatic. They also may
> Not to nitpick,
> But all "assault weapons" are select fire, selectable between fully
> automatic/or bursts  and semiautomatic.
> What we call the assault weapons as in the ban are not really assault
> weapons, but nearly a bastardization of the true meaning,  to scare
> soccer moms.
Not true. I had the opportunity to purchase a .44 "semi-automatic" rifle
a few years back. Totally legally, before the Clinton ban. This is called
a semi-automatic, but in reality is a .44 sub-machine gun. A simple modification
turns this semi-automatic "assault weapon" into a fully automatic mass-people-killing
"assault weapon". The modification is and almost always has been illegal, but lots of
people do it anyway, I'm sure. I'm sorry, but I really see no reason for these weapons
to be legal. I have a gun and use it to kill food with (food <> human beings), and
Shooting a deer with an assault weapon pretty much nullifies the food quality part
of it, not to mention the fur/leather quality.