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Libertarian Advocate says:

January 28, 2013 at 2:03 pm

Phineas:

Point of order. The firearms DHS seeks to purchase are “Select Fire” meaning that they by definition can be fired in either fully automatic mode or “3 shot burst fire” or plain vanilla semi-automatic mode. The vast majority of civilian “black rifle” owners in this country own and shoot semi-automatic capable rifles only. The only similarities between those civilian rifles and military class “select-Fire” weapons are purely cosmetic features – principally pistol grips and collapsible stocks – that have no bearing whatsoever on the operation of the rifles themselves and CANNOT (not-withstanding Diane Feinstein’s bold faced lies to the contrary) be easily converted to fully automatic function.

That our legislators have adopted the menacing “Assault Weapon” moniker for our hobbled civilian class rifles while our executive branch agencies define fully automatic capable military grade rifles as “personal defensive weapons” is a truly perverse irony.
Phineas says:

January 28, 2013 at 2:12 pm

The firearms DHS seeks to purchase are “Select Fire” meaning that they by definition can be fired in either fully automatic mode or “3 shot burst fire” or plain vanilla semi-automatic mode. The vast majority of “black rifle” owners in this country own and shoot semi-automatic capable rifles only.

Right. Which is why I wrote “similar weapons,” not “same weapons.”

That our legislators have adopted the menacing “Assault Weapon” moniker for our hobbled civilian class rifles while our executive branch agencies define fully automatic capable military grade rifles as “personal defensive weapons” is a truly perverse irony.

I think of it as either ignorance or dishonesty, depending on the government droid in question.
Libertarian Advocate says:

January 28, 2013 at 2:22 pm

I think of it as either ignorance or dishonesty, depending on the government droid in question

I suggest this third alternative: At this point they ALL delight in rubbing our noses in their fetid corruption and abuses of power.
Drew the Infidel says:

January 28, 2013 at 4:42 pm

When it comes to my personal protection, I’ll be the judge of what fits my circumstances and methodology, not some bureaucrat with his round a*s stuck in a square office somewhere who does not know me (or my situation) from Adam’s dog. With a weapon, we are citizens; without them we are subjects.

Historical footnote: During WWII the Japanese high command entertained the notion of an amphibious assault on the West Coast. Admirial Yamamoto warned, “There will be a gun behind every blade of grass.” They opted for Pearl Harbor instead, after which he warned, “I fear we wake a sleeping giant.” They should have listened to him twice, not once.
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