Picture shows someone loading his revolver with a speed loader.
Back in 1998 Barack Obama supported a “ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.” But Obama’s past views are now all the rage among Democrats. Yet, at the CNN Townhall on guns on January 7th, 2016, Obama belittled the concern that the government would want to confiscate people’s guns: “Yes, it is fair to call the conspiracy, what are you saying? Are you suggesting that the notion that we are creating a plot to take everybody’s guns away.” Yet, with all the calls from Democrats for semi-automatic gun bans, it is hard to take the denials seriously.
Boston Globe (January 17, 2016): “military style assault rifles and easily concealed handguns equipped with large capacity ammunition magazines are now the weapons of choice for mass shooters. These semiautomatic weapons are far more powerful and lethal than standard issue law enforcement service weapons.“
Thomas Friedman, New York Times (January 6, 2016): “Bans on the manufacture and sale of all semiautomatic and other military-style guns and government offers to buy back any rifle or pistol in circulation. It won’t solve the problem, but Australia proved that such programs can help reduce gun deaths.“
Media Matters (January 5, 2016) excitedly notes: Latinos support “a ban on semi-automatic and assault weapons.”
One wonders whether gun control advocates have any idea of how guns work. Legislation has just been introduced to ban semi-auto rifles in California and semi-automatic pistols in Georgia and those that can take magazines of more than 10 rounds Washington State.
For Georgia, they define assault weapons very broadly:
(3) ‘Assault weapon’ means:
(A) Any selective fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semiautomatic, or burst fire at the option of the user and any part designed or intended for use with such firearm; . . .
(a) No person shall possess, distribute, transport, transfer, or sell any assault weapon.
(b) Any person who distributes, transports, or imports an assault weapon into this state shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than ten years. . . .
The Washington State bill would ban:
Once a semi-automatic gun can accept a magazine, the magazine can pretty much be of any size.
One thing that gun control advocates might not realize is that revolvers actually fire bullets at a faster rate than semi-auto pistols. The next issue is reloading speed. Semi-autos can hold more rounds than a revolver (the highest capacity revolvers are 8 rounds for a .357 Magnum (also) or 10 rounds for a .22LR). Presumably most people believe that semi-autos can reload faster, but, as this video below shows, with some practice, that is not the case. Semi-autos are easier to reload for someone who is a novice.
One advantage that revolvers have over semi-automatics is that semi-autos can jam.
Obama could do something simple to convince Americans that he is really not trying to use background checks on private transfers to put together a national registry that could then be used to confiscate guns. See point three here.
Jerry might want to check that California hasn’t banned him before travelling there.
I’m not sure what Jerry does counts as “some” practice.
Jerry can reload his revolver faster than most can reload their semi-automatics. It sure isn’t necessary for anyone engaged in any type of attack to have that speed. With some practice, people can be proficient.
The rate of fire of most mass shooters is so slow that having to change guns or magazines more frequently would not diminish their casualty counts.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2700166
The statement made about Georgia broad definition of assault rifle is correct. Assault rifle are selective fire firearms. I wish these asshole who make these statement new what the hell they are talking about. They just keep showing their lack of knowledge of firearms. So until you know what you are talking about keep your mouth shut so you don’t display your stupidity.
The Second amendment is my gun permit, and it has no expiration date prior to mine.
I’ve heard talk of definitions to include anything with any form of repeating-round in a feeding action. No SA revolvers or 2b shotguns or deringers.
Any metallic cartridge firing self-extracting & ejecting break-open single-shot can be made to fire more than 1 every 6 seconds, so that’s prohibited, too. I’ve heard of that rate of fire being a metric for availability in many sources.
Even those once, were state of the art military battle gear “specifically innovated for soldiers to kill as many people as possible in a short time.”
Of course they’ll want to take your revolvers too. What happens when all other guns are banned and some crazy person shoots up a school with 2 revolvers and kills 10 kids? Imagine the outrage from the left and the calls for more gun restrictions. Then when some crazy person comes to school with a sword and hacks a few kids to death they’ll come knocking for those as well.