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Hiding in Plain Sight

Michigan’s Hidden Gun Manufacturers [More]

If they were hidden, you wouldn’t be registed with the government and you wouldn’t be able to pinpoint them on a map, but then again, anyone expecting unmanipulated truth from the proven propagandists who started the conflate semiautos with machineguns deception is in for a long wait:

The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.

Near as I can figure from this latest exercise in confusing the stupid, the gungrabbers are complaining licensees should be disqualifed because they aren’t making enough guns.

As long volume is the benchmark, how many guns has FFL Josh Sugarmann sold, and to whom?

[Via WiscoDave]

His Own Petard

Soros-backed Louisiana district attorney carjacked at gunpoint with his mother [Mo r e]

What’s with “Williams said the suspect had high-powered automatic weapons”?

Did any “real reporters” ask him how he knew, or is it just easier for all concerned to help VPC spread its 35-year-old fear porn?

Conversion ‘Therapy’

Rand says ATF should consider using its authority to reclassify certain types of firearms that are easily converted into fully automatic weapons, similar to what they did in the 1980s with the KG-9 and the MAC-10. Lots of firearms besides Glocks also are “readily convertible” into machine guns by using tools to reconfigure them or adding parts, she said. [More]

Like VPC has been signaling everyone since 1988:

The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.

Anybody out there still foolish enough to believe the bump stock ban was about bump stocks?

[Via Jess]

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