Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced a bill Thursday to regulate firearms by outlawing weapons with a magazine capacity over 10 rounds, among other measures aimed at increasing gun control. The Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act (GOSAFE) comes a month after a gunman killed 18 people in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, not far from where King lives. [More]
F*** these Democrat traitors.
It’s not going anywhere.
And if it did, who worth a damn would comply?
[Via Jess]
Blowback operated loophole?
While I am reading this, the TV had a program describing the history of the Texas Rangers (nothing about baseball). It described how they fought Comanche raiding parties with the opposing forces both mounted on horseback. The Comanches originally had the advantage, being able to launch twelve arrows remaining on horseback during the time the Rangers fired their rifles once, dismounted and reloaded their single shot rifles. This Comanche advantage disappeared once the Rangers were equipped with five shot .36 caliber Colt Paterson revolvers, firing without dismounting. Some Rangers had the audacity to have more than one revolver.
“outlawing weapons with a magazine capacity over 10 rounds”
Audacious.
For any firearm accepting a magazine, someone can design a magazine with more than ten rounds.
They often include the words “capable of accepting” which pretty much includes any firearm that accepts a detachable magazine.
According to Gun Jesus, it calls ALL self loading firearms ‘gas operated’.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aMHGtM051jc
A SCOTUS judge once stated that he couldn’t define obscenity but he knew it when he saw it. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your views on that topic, one must define something in a way that ordinary people can understand, in order to ban it.
Leaving the topic of obscenity for the moment, the ignorance of many in a legislating capacity, and their staff people, with respect to firearms frequently bites them, and us, on the butt.
The courts make a habit of separating what the legislature intended when they passed a law, and the text of the law itself. Think back a bit to a case when bans of firearms over .50 caliber brought historical reenactments of Revolutionary War and Civil War battles to a halt because the muzzle loaders common at the time were all over .50 caliber.
Another example would be the New York SAFE Act which banned magazines of over 7 rounds capacity neglecting to include an exemption for police use.
If their bill’s language bans “gas operated” firearms, it will not include those which are not gas operated whether they intended to ban them or not.
Hence, the “blowback” loophole.