Monday, April 25, 2016

“Get weapons of war off the streets!”

 
This Springfield 30-06 bolt action traces its origins to the 1890s. Today’s deer rifles are not much different from what was the premier US sniper rifle in WW1 and WW2. Will your hunting rifle become a prohibited “weapon of war” because of the mechanical similarity?

The title is a typical rallying cry of anti-freedom politicians. We know they are lying. But let’s pretend, just for a moment, that they aren’t. If they really mean to restrict only weapons of war, then we are looking at one of two possible outcomes:

1. They mean to eliminate almost every firearm, pole arm, ranged and edged weapon out there, since all of them had at one time been used in warfare. For example, a typical hunting bolt action is derived from the 1898 Mauser rifle, and a typical handgun is very similar to what World War One troops carried. Are you OK with being denied ownership or access to every rifle, shotgun, musket, arquebus, crossbow, bow, sling and atl-atl ever fielded by an army?  

2. They wish to restrict only current weapons or war. So obsolete designs, like the 1895 Colt machine gun should fine by them. Yeah, right! They would be no more OK with the 1918 Bergmann submachine gun than with 1915 grenades or 1896 Mauser pistol with a shoulder stock. The variety of obsolete arms is tremendous, and none of them look sufficiently dated to the anti-individual politicians. The current efforts of Australian prohibitionists to ban lever action smoothbores is a testament to that.

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12 comments:

  1. knives were attached to rifles.

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    1. ? I don't get where your comment came from. Did I miss something?

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  2. They also totally fail to understand, or choose not to understand the history and relationship between "sporting"/hunting rifles and military rifles. Let us call it for what it really is, just another tactic to ban and confiscate ALL, I repeat ALL firearms from the general public. So they are trying the reverse tactic, if your "hunting" rifle was once, or came from a design of a military issue firearm it is now "weapon of war". A new buzz phrase to replace "assault weapon"?

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    1. A new buzz phrase to replace "assault weapon"?

      Lord only knows and screw them.

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  3. They won't get my military guns or the beyonettes that go on them. If I have to go down in the last great beyonet charge so be it.

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    1. If I have to go down in the last great beyonet charge so be it.

      Hear! Hear! :)

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  4. Hi Brock,
    "Talk is Cheap!!!!" Guns and Ammo are "Expensive!" There will be "NO WARNING SHOTS!!!!!"
    That is all.
    Audentes...Fortuna...Juvat,
    III%,
    skybill-out

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  5. I meant to say that knives can be used as weapons of war.

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    1. Yes, indeed and I just re-posted an old one for you. http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2016/04/they-fought-like-demons-confederate.html

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  6. Yeh well...I was told that participation in a reenactment group was "militia training" by a Louisville Cop... Its not just the firearms the Nazis are after ; And I'm with Matt, I'd rather expend my basic load ,then fix bayonet, and go down fighting, before surrendering my weapons and boarding the federal death train....Ray

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    1. participation in a reenactment group was "militia training" by a Louisville Cop..

      Yeah, well arrest me then and see how that goes in court. I could use some money to further the Cause.)

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