News from The Sight M1911, Volume 154

News from The Sight M1911

Volume 154, 5/9/04

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear single shot duck guns with a minimum barrel length of 36" having neither detachable magazines, bayonet lugs, nor pistol grips, shall not be infringed.”

That doesn't sound quite right, does it? It doesn't sound right because it isn't the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; it's the Second Amendment of the Brady Campaign, of Charles Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, Diane Feinstein, the Million Mom March and the Violence Policy Center. In other words, it's the Second Amendment of gun control extremists. These are the terms in which they want to frame the discussion of our civil rights.

Their current jihad targets the mythological beast often referred to as the “assault weapon.” Now, we’re not quite sure what defines this monster, but we do know that unless the fraudulent “Assault Weapons Ban” of 1994 is extended, these deadly tools of mass destruction will suddenly flood our streets, and turn our schools and ghettos into killing fields. This is all, from stem to stern, a complete fiction – the terms, the description of the law, and the imagined consequences of non-renewal. Not a word is true.

The “Assault Weapons Ban” of 1994, a.k.a. the “Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,” is one of the great scams of the Clinton era. It is a masterpiece of double-speak and equivocation. In reality, the law banned rifles that had detachable magazines and two or more of the following characteristics: folding or telescoping stock, pistol grips, bayonet mount, flash suppressor, or threads to attach a suppressor, or a grenade launcher. Further, it banned the importation of foreign-built rifles having some or all of these characteristics, and it banned the ownership by civilians of high capacity magazines (more than 10 rounds) produced after 1994. (Notice that a rifle with a 100-round drum magazine and a grenade launcher could be completely legal under the AWB as long as it did not have a bayonet lug, flash suppressor, folding stock or pistol grip).

Notice also that AK-47’s, M-16’s, Uzi’s and MP5’s (real assault rifles and submachine guns) are not addressed by the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. Guns capable of automatic fire have been controlled by the National Firearms Act of 1934 for the past seventy years. Contrary to the overheated rhetoric of the gun grabbers, the AWB will have no impact whatsoever on the presence of AK-47’s and Uzi’s on our streets. It never has. The gun control jihadists lie because they know their agenda will fail in the light of truth. Were the gun grabbers serious about fighting crime or violence, they would be focusing on weapons that figure prominently in the violent crime statistics of America. Military-style rifles do not.

The real agenda is to ban military-style rifles because they are seen as being vulnerable to these emotional, non-rational appeals. Next will be semi-auto handguns, then revolvers, and so on, until we’re down to single-shot duck guns. The agenda is to disarm and force the cult of victimization on the free and self-reliant citizens of America.

The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting. It never has been. It’s about freedom. It’s not about Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Donna Dees-Thomases or Josh Sugarmann telling me what kind of rifle I need or should have, and for what purposes. It is about responsible citizens of this republic making conscientious decisions for themselves about the tools necessary for their own security, safety, and recreation.

If we are to counter this campaign of disinformation, our response needs to be more than technical lectures about the fine points of firearms nomenclature. We must define the terms, but more importantly, we must shape the discussion in terms of civil rights, individual liberty, and the inalienable right to self-defense, and that includes the bearing of arms which are on a par or superior to those which might be used against us.

GUN-PROOFING CHILDREN

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119023,00.html

WOMEN'S GUN LOBBY IS A GROWING POLITICAL FORCE

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/172468_pot08.html

GUNS, LIKE ABORTION, ARE A MATTER OF CHOICE

[Your humble editor doesn’t necessarily agree with any or all of the author’s opinions, but this is an interesting take on the issues]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-05-05-stange_x.htm

STORE OWNER DOESN'T CONCEAL HIS STAND ON FIREARMS

http://www.ohioccw.org/article2020.html

MUSEUM TELLS STORY OF LOCAL FIREARMS

http://tinyurl.com/28nzq

PROSECUTOR SAYS NO SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR HOSTETTLER

http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=1843290

THE 2004 CAMOUFLAGE FANNY PACKS...GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE AVAILABLE

http://tinyurl.com/36ftw

HAVING A GUN, DRUGS GETS MAN 30-YEAR TERM

http://www.freep.com/news/mich/date5_20040505.htm

LAPD'S TOP GUN IS ON THE CASE

Richard Smith has an eye for firearms analysis that few can match.

http://tinyurl.com/2cgkr

CALIFORNIA: FIREARM FIGHTING

Gun proponents, opponents differ on impact of shows.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/article/index.cfm/i/050304n_firearms

MICHIGAN: MAN CARRIES HANDGUN INTO CREDIT UNION. GUN SIEZED.

A man carrying a handgun was questioned and released by authorities Tuesday as he was leaving the Cascades Community Federal Credit Union, 4405 Page Ave. in Michigan Center. [The moral of this story is to make sure your concealed personal defense weapon is concealed.]

http://tinyurl.com/yrlws

MISSOURI: FIXES FOR GUN LAW LANGUISHING

Inaction would leave sheriffs in tight spot

http://tinyurl.com/2cjeu

MONTANA: THREE KALISPELL MEN PLEAD NOT GUILTY TO FEDERAL GUN CHARGES

Three of six people suspected of belonging to a militia group and amassing illegal weapons in a plot to assassinate Kalispell public officials pleaded innocent Friday in Great Falls to federal firearms charges.

http://tinyurl.com/35olo

NEW JERSEY: GUN CLUB IN JACKSON TEACHES FIREARM SAFETY

http://tritown.gmnews.com/news/2004/0506/Front_Page/031.html

OHIO: LEGISLATORS, ACTIVIST PROMOTE OHIO BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/8615029.htm

OHIO: ADVOCATES OF THE CONCEAL/CARRY GUN LAW SAY SYSTEM IS MOVING TOO SLOWLY

http://www.ohioccw.org/article2030.html

OHIO: MICROCENTER SIGNS COME DOWN; KROGER DIGS IN FOR A FIGHT

http://www.ohioccw.org/article2027.html

OHIO: KROGER ''REEXAMINING THE ISSUE'' AFTER MASSIVE GRASSROOTS UPRISING

http://www.ohioccw.org/article2021.html

OHIO: COURT ASKED TO VOID SUIT AIMING TO BAR GUN PERMITS