State Senator Proposing Assault Weapons Ban

How is banning cosmestic features on firearms going to do anything?

The ban prohibited any semi-automatic rifle that can accept a detachable magazine and features two or more of the following characteristics:

• A folding or telescoping stock
• A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon
• A bayonet mount
• A flash suppressor or barrel having a threaded muzzle
• A grenade launcher

Except the grenade launcher all of these features are entirely cosmetic! The way a gun looks has NOTHING to do with how it functions.

Real miltary weapons (Fully automatic weapons) have been strictly regulated since the National Firearms Act of 1934 (and not even legal to own here in WA even with jumping through all the hoops). Under the old AWB, it banned semi-automatic firearms.Semi-automatic means you pull the trigger once and for the gun to fire again you have to pull the trigger again. Semi-automatic firearms have been around for more than 100 hundred years.Fully automatic means you can hold the trigger down and it will continue to fire as long as it is held down.

The appearance of a gun looks has nothing to do with how powerful it is. In fact, if you compare a .223 round an AR-15 fires compared to a 30-06 round a deer rifle fires. The 30-06 is at least TWICE as powerful than the .223 round. Theres even big game rifles that fire a round that EIGHT TIMES as powerful as a .223!

Taking away another one of our freedoms because of actions of the few is rediculous and dangerous to our constitution. The people that killed with assault weapons would have killed with some other weapon. It's not the guns that are the problem--people who choose to kill will kill with whatever weapon is available. Wake up Americans and see that it's just another politician putting a feather in his cap and showing the public how much he cares and saving face with constituants. He has to "DO" something to show the public since the killings are so publicised in the media. Taking away another one of our rights is not the answer and it WON'T stop killers from killing. But it will "kill" our way of life eventually if we continue to allow politicians that want to cover their $#&sses by taking away rights of the citizens. Won't be long until we won't have the right to even write these types of blogs....