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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
My point is that there is a pretty broad definition of what an assault rifle is. I would also wager that your average ignorant gun grabber would say that the AR-15 should be banned simply because it looks meaner than the wood stocked Ruger Mini-14 pictured above, not knowing that they operate the same way.
Anyways, here is some more hypocrisy from the US government.
http://www.examiner.com/article/dhs-...assault-rifles
"It's a bid by DHS to purchase 7000 select fire (read: automatic) AR-15 rifles. If you look at the specifications, the government is requiring them to be select fire meaning there's 3 options not 2 like on normal AR-15's you buy in the store. These have safe, semi, and auto options. They also must take 20 and 30 rounds magazines, have rails to put accessories, and a fixed pistol grip and durable vertical grip. The latter to are both deemed 'military features'.
"DHS and its components have a requirement for a 5.56x45mm NATO, select-fire firearm suitable for personal defense use in close quarters and / or when maximum concealment is required.""
So here you have a domestic agency (DHS)...buying 7 thousand true assault rifles with full automatic capablility. |
Dude, you're making no sense at all.
The average gun grabber (whateve that is) isn't (or in a more accurate sense, didn't between '94 and 2004) ban AR15s becasue they looked scary, and not do anything about the Mini 14. What they did was ban any gun that fit the classification of an assault rifle, meaning, among other things, short barrels, high capacity magazines, certain kinds of stocks, and other features. If it fit the criteria, those much less scary looking mini 14s were just as illegal.
You could buy variants of both that fit the criteria, and you couldn't buy the variants of others that didn't.
As for the "Hypocracy" of a goverment agency buying things the public can't, you can't be serious.
Do you honestly believe that anyone should be able to buy a tank, or a .50 fully auto machine gun, or a fighter jet.
Becasue as you may have noticed, those are all things that the government buys on a pretty regular basis, that joe public most certainly can't.