
Originally Posted by
GeoFisher
If this passes.........ALL semi auto guns will be banned...........not just some, but all. This is a very good example of word games in the current bill.
The Law (If This Passes):
"(36) The term 'semiautomatic assault weapon' means any of the following, regardless of country of manufacture or caliber of ammunition accepted:"
"(A) A semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any 1 of the following:"
"(i) A pistol grip."
"(46) The term 'pistol grip' means a grip, a thumb-hole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip."
[The same language is repeated for handguns and shotguns; magazine includes belt fed; also included: "Any combination of parts from which a firearm described in subparagraphs (A) through (K) can be assembled;"]
"(v)(1) It shall be unlawful for a person to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a semiautomatic assault weapon."
[All government agencies of every kind, including school officers, are excluded from all of this. In other words, they can have all the firearms you now own that Feinstein's bill would outlaw for you. This means that rights you now have to own property would be stripped from you. That is rights denial, not crime prevention.]
The proper role of government is to protect people's rights. It says so right there in the Declaration of Independence, the document and principles that got this country going and launched individual freedom across the entire surface of the Earth. When government gets to the business of taking away rights we already have -- no matter what justification or reasoning it uses, as Mrs. Feinstein is now doing -- it is doing exactly opposite of what its legitimate role is, and that has a very dangerous and ugly name. As a refresher on basic principles:
46 defines what a "pistol grip" is......It is very ambiguous, and by my reading ( and many, many others), it means ALL.
Later,
Geo