Saturday, March 14, 2009

Barack Obama fuels gun buying boom


Manufacturers are struggling to keep up with demand, and many gun shops running low on stock as the US public buys weapons in anticipation of tighter controls.

The Democrats current gun-ban-list proposal (final list will be worse):

Rifles (or copies or duplicates):
M1 Carbine,
Sturm Ruger Mini-14,
AR-15,
Bushmaster XM15,
Armalite M15,
AR-10,
Thompson 1927,
Thompson M1;
AK,
AKM,
AKS,
AK-47,
AK-74,
ARM,
MAK90,
NHM 90,
NHM 91,
SA 85,
SA 93,
VEPR;
Olympic Arms PCR;
AR70,
Calico Liberty ,
Dragunov SVD Sniper Rifle or Dragunov SVU,
Fabrique National FN/FAL,
FN/LAR, or FNC,
Hi-Point20Carbine,
HK-91,
HK-93,
HK-94,
HK-PSG-1,
Thompson 1927 Commando,
Kel-Tec Sub Rifle;
Saiga,
SAR-8,
SAR-4800,
SKS with detachable magazine,
SLG 95,
SLR 95 or 96,
Steyr AU,
Tavor,
Uzi,
Galil and Uzi Sporter,
Galil Sporter, or Galil Sniper Rifle ( Galatz ).
Pistols (or copies or duplicates):
Calico M-110,
MAC-10,
MAC-11, or MPA3,
Olympic Arms OA,
TEC-9,
TEC-DC9,
TEC-22 Scorpion, or AB-10,
Uzi.
Shotguns (or copies or duplicates):
Armscor 30 BG,
SPAS 12 or LAW 12,
Striker 12,
Streetsweeper. Catch-all category (for anything missed or new designs):
A semiautomatic rifle that accepts a detachable magazine and has:
(i) a folding or telescoping stock,
(ii) a threaded barrel,
(iii) a pistol grip (which includes ANYTHING that can serve as a grip, see
below),
(iv) a forward grip; or a barrel shroud.
Any semiautomatic rifle with a fixed magazine that can accept more than
10 rounds (except tubular magazine .22 rim fire rifles).
A semiautomatic pistol that has the ability to accept a
detachable magazine, and has:
(i) a second pistol grip,
(ii) a threaded barrel,
(iii) a barrel shroud or
(iv) can accept a detachable magazine outside of the pistol grip, and
(v) a semiautomatic pistol with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10
rounds.
A semiautomatic shotgun with:
(i) a folding or telescoping stock,
(ii) a pistol grip (see definition below),
(iii) the ability to accept a detachable magazine or a fixed magazine capacity
of more than 5 rounds, and
(iv) a shotgun with a revolving cylinder.

Frames or receivers for the above are included, along with conversion kits.
Attorney General gets carte blanche to ban guns at will: Under the proposal, the U.S. Attorney General can add any “semiautomatic rifle or shotgun originally designed for military or law enforcement use, or a firearm based on the design of such a firearm, that is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, as determined by the Attorney General.”

Note that Obama’s pick for this office, Eric Holder, wrote a brief in the Heller case supporting the position that you have no right to have a working firearm in your own home. In making this determination, the bill says, “there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a firearm procured for use by the United States military or any law enforcement agency is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, and a shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event.” In plain English this means that ANY firearm ever obtained by federal officers or the military is not suitable for the public.

The last part is particularly clever, stating that a firearm doesn’t have a sporting purpose just because it can be used for sporting purpose — is that devious or what? And of course, “sporting purpose” is a rights infringement with no constitutional or historical support whatsoever, invented by domestic enemies of the right to keep and bear arms to further their cause of disarming the innocent.

7 comments:

texlahoma said...

Billy - If he does that I'm gonna put lipstick on Bob, register him as a Rupublican and call him Sarah!

yellowdoggranny said...

sigh...but why do people need the guns on that list anyfuckinghow..???
shotguns for hunting..rifles for hunting..the rest? I'm sorry..there is no fucking need for them...I know not what you wanted to hear.

texlahoma said...

YDG - I know I'll never change you mind on this (cause I know nobody can change my mind on it) but the gun rights in the constitution were given to fight the government.
Not to go hunting!
Those gun are needed for the people to be able to fight back should the government get too bad. They are needed in Texas if that drug dealer gang war crap heads North a little.
Those are the very guns that we need the most to protect our freedoms. It might be a last ditch ragtag bunch but with those guns we stand a chance without them we're screwed.

Tina said...

Hey there Tex, sorry I've been an absentee blogger ;)

I have to agree with Jackie. Right to bear arms is a right given by the 2nd amendment, of course, but I agree as time goes on, so does the amending or technicality explanation that goes with the right. Keeping hunting aside, we don't need arsenals or semi-automatic weapons. I just don't see it. Everyone stockpiling because Obama may tighten the rules, is that a good thing? I think not.

texlahoma said...

Hi Joy.
I think a lot of people see the right to keep and bear arms kind of like the right to free speech. I don't think you would go along with the government saying "You have the right to free speech except you may not criticize any elected officials."

But I don't think they would even try that until they completely disarmed the citizens of the United States.

Would you at least allow me to keep my semi-auto pistol to defend my home and family against an armed intruder? Should I just hide under my bed, dial 911, be put on hold while the bad guy (that can get whatever gun is on the black market) does whatever to my family and me?
Oh, I guess not you have already stated that "We don't need semi-automatic weapons."

joy said...

That was Tina, not me!

I understand the concept of semi-automatics. They're not all bad.

I think the idea that Democrats were gearing up to take away everybody's guns was debunked a while back. Personally, I'm blaming this particular internet rumor on the gun shop owners. They're running out of guns here in OKC.

texlahoma said...

Sorry Joy!

The thought that I put Joy instead of Tina hit me hours later.

Gun shops down here keep running adds that they want to buy guns. The government should wait a couple of more generations to try strict gun control. By then they could have the vast majority brainwashed into thinking they don't need guns.

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