assault weapons

Say Uncle notices that government gun bans may have the opposite of the intended affect:

Check out this Sentinel Headline: School officers’ woes aired before board

School officers’ woes?? What’s going on here is a cover-up! I want to know what crimes have not been reported by school officials and administrators. Rape? Assault? Weapons crimes?

Jeff wonders why weapons that look like assault weapons seem to have gone up in price. Speculation is that, of course, it’s an election year. I think it’s less complex than that. Two factors: 1) one of the most popular rifles right now now is the AR-15. They’re trendy. 2) After the expiration of the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons, the market was flooded. Everyone ramped up and cranked out mags and things with bayo

Remember, they tell us it’s not a precursor to confiscation:

A heavy afternoon rain blurs the sky as three black sport utility vehicles pull up across from a one-story stucco house on Pinole Valley Road.

The man inside just turned 60 and recently was placed under a psychiatric hold as a suicide risk, says one of the five state agents. Records show he owns 15 guns, including two ass

Looks like all the bleating in the press lamenting that Democrats were not talking about gun control paid off. In an interview with the Dallas Morning News, she says she wants to ban weapons that look like assault weapons and ban private transfers of firearms.

Last week, I noted that the Seattle Post Intelligencer (which is still a stupid name for a newspaper) was lamenting the fact that politicians aren’t talking about gun control. Now, the NYT is getting in on the why, oh, why aren’t politicians doing more to make life harder on gun owners truck:

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Of assault weapons. That’s what they claim the police assisted destruction of evidence err gun buyback program collected in Oakland. They were lying, of course. Anyway, the police assisted destruction of evidence err gun buyback had some other issues:

A push for a ban on weapons that look like assault weapons in Nebraska.

Much like inventing assault weapons, the anti-gunners continue to invent new issues. The latest seems to be guns that are not black, which is funny since the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons mostly affected the black guns. And the media parrot the line. CNN discovers guns and paint; PSH ensues.

Hillary Clinton:

“You know you may not believe it, but I’ve actually gone hunting,” she said to some surprise and laughter. “I know, you may not believe it, but it’s true. My father taught me to shoot a hundred years ago.”