The big problem is idiots are passing laws that no NOTHING about guns. They just banned the pistol grip, which has NO ability to change the operation of the gun and is strictly aestetic, comfort and safety of the shooter. For example, my 11 year old sister has 20g shotgun with a pistol grip she uses for skeet shooting. We put the grip on it for her safety, we felt she could not handle the recoil of the shotgun because of the size of her hands, but with the modified grip she can now safely operate the weapon. No what does this new law tell me is that they do not want to take the safety into consideration of legal moral citizens. When only maybe .000001 of people are breaking this law.
They are also going after the .223 AR-15... WOW this round honestly is a small round extremly small. The only reason why this gun is popular is because of video games and the way it looks. Which the way the gun looks has ZERO impact of the shooting capability of the gun. They are trying to ban the fore grip, which I don't even use, but why, it does not turn the weapon into an assult rifle? Also keep in mind the LEGAL AR-15 is not a assult rifle it is a LONG RIFLE. So why all the hype to ban it? because its popular... If every one went out and bought socom m1 or m14 which are much more of a bad ass gun in my opinion and started shooting things up would the hype be on them?
So basically we are banning a GREAT gun... The AR is a GREAT gun because it allows shooters to shoot low cost rounds and have allot of run with out spending over a dollar a round. I believe my 30.06 is like 32$ for a box of 24. That is expensive the .223 round is cheap, the gun is light and easy to shoot. A 12 year old can safely operate the gun. It is not as deadly as people claim. If i wanted to really fuck people up, I would walk into a room with my hunting shot gun with a long tube in it. With a little bit of practice of combat reloading I can probably never stop a constant flow of shooting.
Also people say these words we want to stop shootings at schools and movies because we want to put kids first...
Well here a few facts, but I am not going to get numbers because I am lazy, but if you care about kids then pass these laws.
No smoking in public places, my little sister has had 3 hospital trips due to public smoking and her athemsa in her lifetime. How far is that for a child? Her first one was at the age of 5 when she all most died from a guy smoking...
Childhood obesity is an epedimic, but yet we still support fast food and junk food? Why not make that illegal too?
alchohol causes people to lose the ability to process clear thoughts which increases domestic voilence and car accidents so lets ban alchohol.
People still break the law and drive on their cell phones which has caused more deaths then the AR-15 so lets just ban cell phones too.
Why not just live life with complete gov't control? they can dictate where we work, what we eat, how we feel, who we marry, and how we reproduce. I mean that seems to be what people want is to rely on the gov't.