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Citing firearm sale reports on the southwestern border, Chipman claimed the ATF defines an assault rifle as “any semi-automatic rifle capable of accepting a detachable magazine above the caliber of .22, which would include a .223, which is, you know largely the AR-15 round.”
His problem, and the problem with all of the gun control advocates, is that they don't have to define anything if they state what they really want - all guns. This AR talk is only the "for now" version of that. I've had this same discussion with a half a dozen Liberals. When I start poking at their arguments, they end up saying that there never should be a gun in civilian hands. This is an incremental drip, drip, drip and really doesn't' matter what is in the latest drop. If they were successful at the rifle ban, they would quickly pivot to what we have all said - handguns kill more people and now let's ban those.TxRVer wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 6:14 am How can you say you want to ban something that you can't define?
Oh, he can define it... the problem is that he considers any weapon in the hands of a civilian to be an assault weapon. The actual definition he seems to be getting at in questioning was "any weapon that can be used in an assault of another"TxRVer wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 6:14 am How can you say you want to ban something that you can't define?
"Ah hah! We'll ban everything but revolvers! Only six bullets and it takes forever to reload..."
I had not read that before. Chipman acts as if semi-automatic firearms are something relatively new, like they just popped up on the scene or something. Mass produced semiautomatic firearms have been around since the late 1800s, and started to become popular in the early 1900s; in other words, despite what that prevaricating Chipman spewed out in that interview, there is absolutely NOTHING new about semiautomatic firearms in civilian hands. Even the AR design is from the late 50s, and Colt began to sell them on the civilian market in 1964. Two of the biggest problems in this nation are ignorance and apathy.Paladin wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:43 am David Chipman of Giffords about "the danger of high-capacity magazines"
According to Chipman here's a photo of my "assault rifle". It's even made by Armalite so it's an official AR.K.Mooneyham wrote: Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:41 amI had not read that before. Chipman acts as if semi-automatic firearms are something relatively new, like they just popped up on the scene or something. Mass produced semiautomatic firearms have been around since the late 1800s, and started to become popular in the early 1900s; in other words, despite what that prevaricating Chipman spewed out in that interview, there is absolutely NOTHING new about semiautomatic firearms in civilian hands. Even the AR design is from the late 50s, and Colt began to sell them on the civilian market in 1964. Two of the biggest problems in this nation are ignorance and apathy.Paladin wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:43 am David Chipman of Giffords about "the danger of high-capacity magazines"
