Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/another-misfire-at-the-new-york-times/
Since you people tend not to understand anything about firearms, except when forcing populations into compliance with your dictates.
Since you people tend not to understand anything about firearms, except when forcing populations into compliance with your dictates.
Kevin D. Williamson said:Friedman, warming to his self-indulgent, self-righteous mode, writes: “They know full well that most voters are not asking to scrap the Second Amendment, but for common-sense gun laws that could prevent or reduce more school shootings and would not interfere with any decent Americans’ right to own guns for hunting, sports or self-protection.” Setting aside that bit of constitutional illiteracy — the Second Amendment isn’t about hunting or sport shooting; does anybody really think that the No. 2 item on the Bill of Rights is about a hobby? — Friedman does not seem to know that semiautomatic rifles, including AR-style rifles, are in fact among the most common hunting and sport-shooting firearms.
For hunters of everything from coyotes and other small predators to feral hogs, AR-style rifles are extraordinarily common. And a fair number of big-game hunters use similar rifles in more powerful calibers, for example Wilson’s popular semiautomatic hunting rifles. Functionally, the only difference between a semiautomatic hunting rifle and the more common .223 AR-15 rifles is that the hunting rifles are much, much more powerful. Until recently, the .223 round was prohibited for hunting deer and other sizable game, not because the AR-15 is a “weapon of war” but because the caliber was considered insufficiently powerful to use humanely on deer.
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