07-24-2018, 11:10 PM
grayfox Wrote:--sigh--Your question presumes that this is a 2A win. It is not. At least not in the way that you, Alan Gottlieb, and Breitbart are claiming.
Guys, guys, is there never any joy in Muddville! Why can't we just welcome any wins/advances, however small or large?
The quoted definition of "Military Equipment" addresses only high-capacity magazines, components for full-auto conversion, and weapon stabilization technology. It says nothing whatsoever about the firearms themselves.
Also, Gottlieb shows an incredible ignorance of the facts in saying: "The federal government now saying semi-automatic firearms below .50 caliber are not inherently military means that they are admitting that rifles like the AR-15 are civilian in nature. This makes perfect sense, as they existed years before the military adopted the fully automatic version."
That is blatantly false. Full-auto versions of rifles like the AR15 were adopted and fielded by the world's armies years before the semi-auto variants were developed for the civilian market.
grayfox Wrote:Do you all want such an agreement to go the other direction? They could have just left this point out of the settlement, of course, and let the rationalization used by lefties continue to stand... So that's somehow better for us??LOL. Anyone who thinks that this definition of "military equipment" is going to stop the anti-gun crowd from calling rifles like the AR15 "weapons of war" is severely self-delusional.