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Old 02-22-2017, 04:22 PM
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I see where the appeals court, 4th district, has upheld Marylands ban on "assault weapons" and more than 10 round magazines.
Ruling was 10-4. Bad news.
I imagine this will get to the the Supreme Court. All the more reason for constitutional judges.
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The real issue is "assault weapons." It is a made-up term, designed to scare people by liberal gun grabbers.

Just wait for our new SC judge.
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The real issue is "assault weapons." It is a made-up term, designed to scare people by liberal gun grabbers.

Just wait for our new SC judge.
It's no so much a made up term (assault rifles) as it is used wrong.

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If it isnt fully automatic...then its not an "assault rifle"....

And if you are a civilian with a fully automatic weapon...you either are rich as hell(cost around $14,000 for a worn out automatic rifle) and procured it properly with all the paperwork...or ....you have it illegally.

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1. If I beat you over the head with a hammer, I would be charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Is a hammer now an assault weapon?

2. 'Assault weapon' is redundant. Anything you assault someone with is a weapon, whether it is a firearm or the aforementioned hammer. In MY opinion, the term 'weapon' implies assault. If it's not being used for malicious purposes (i.e. assault), then it is a tool. My shotgun is a hunting tool, my J frames are self-defense tools, my wrenches are mechanic's tools, etc. The minute I decide to start shooting people outside the law or beating people with wrenches, feel free to refer to my firearms and other tools as weapons or assault weapons. Until then, I prefer to call them tools. They are inanimate objects incapable of assaulting anyone without human interaction. 'Assault weapon' is a pointless term, unjustly applied to firearms in order to instill fear into the weak-minded.
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So now all they have to do is "classify" something as an assault weapon and it's no longer protected.
Your Ruger 10/22 is about to become a weapon of war.
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So now all they have to do is "classify" something as an assault weapon and it's no longer protected.
Your Ruger 10/22 is about to become a weapon of war.
It's not about guns, it's about control.
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Why would a bunch of revolutionaries that just won a war against a military super power think that the citizenry should have long guns somewhere close to the military's?
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What is scary is that the Fourth Circuit is traditionally one of the more conservative appeals courts.
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The term "assault weapon" just represents more drift in terminology.

An "assault rifle" was a fully automatic carbine or rifle firing a intermediate cartridge.

The media applied that term to the AR-15 semi-automatic rifles and carbines and to a whole host of other "military style" semi-automatic rifles and carbines.

At some point the press made them sound more evil by calling them "assault weapons".

The court in this has further sowed confusion referring the semi-automatic rifles and carbines banned in MD as "weapons of war".

"Weapon of war"? I have a P.08 Luger, a Walther P-38, an 1895 Nagant, a Victory Model, a No 4 Mk II Lee Enfield, a P-17 Enfield, a 1903A1, a 1903A3, a 1911A1, and an L66A1 that are all legitimate "weapons of war" that are also legal to own in MD. Go figure.

I also have a couple of 12 plus pound heavy barrel varmint AR-15s, an 11 pound AR-15 service match rifle and a dedicated .22LR AR-15 none of which anyone would ever consider taking to war, but that are not legal in MD, because they violate some arbitrary definition of "assault weapon", and now apparently "weapon of war".

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An "assault weapon" is a fully-automatic machine gun. If you don't own one, then this bogus court ruling doesn't apply to you.

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The main difference between.Assault weapon and defense weapon is how they are used.
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If it isnt fully automatic...then its not an "assault rifle"....

And if you are a civilian with a fully automatic weapon...you either are rich as hell(cost around $14,000 for a worn out automatic rifle) and procured it properly with all the paperwork...or ....you have it illegally.
Or the BATF approved slide-fire or bump-fire stock...

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An Assault Weapon is anything that is pointed at ME or my loved ones!!

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The term "assault weapon" just represents more drift in terminology.

An "assault rifle" was a fully automatic carbine or rifle firing a intermediate cartridge.

The media applied that term to the AR-15 semi-automatic rifles and carbines and to a whole host of other "military style" semi-automatic rifles and carbines.

At some point the press made them sound more evil by calling them "assault weapons".

The court in this has further sowed confusion referring the semi-automatic rifles and carbines banned in MD as "weapons of war".

"Weapon of war"? I have a P.08 Luger, a Walther P-38, an 1895 Nagant, a Victory Model, a No 4 Mk II Lee Enfield, a P-17 Enfield, a 1903A1, a 1903A3, a 1911A1, and an L66A1 that are all legitimate "weapons of war" that are also legal to own in MD. Go figure.

I also have a couple of 12 plus pound heavy barrel varmint AR-15s, an 11 pound AR-15 service match rifle and a dedicated .22LR AR-15 none of which anyone would ever consider taking to war, but that are not legal in MD, because they violate some arbitrary definition of "assault weapon", and now apparently "weapon of war".
spot-on.

"Assault rifle" was strictly a class of firearms used by militaries. Not a legal definition. You're right about the press (and at the time, the clinton admin) creating this new class of firearms based on cosmetics, that are somehow more "deadly." And now this "weapon of war" is just a further arbitrary way to attempt to delegitimize common semiautomatic rifles.

Sad more than anything.
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The main difference between.Assault weapon and defense weapon is how they are used.
Actually the main difference is.. if the rifle has fully automatic capabilities
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"Assault Weapon" is a term invented by people that don't have anything else to do except to mess with honest folks. Besides, they are hard to hide in your britches.
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2 points:

1. If I beat you over the head with a hammer, I would be charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Is a hammer now an assault weapon?

2. 'Assault weapon' is redundant. Anything you assault someone with is a weapon, whether it is a firearm or the aforementioned hammer. In MY opinion, the term 'weapon' implies assault. If it's not being used for malicious purposes (i.e. assault), then it is a tool. My shotgun is a hunting tool, my J frames are self-defense tools, my wrenches are mechanic's tools, etc. The minute I decide to start shooting people outside the law or beating people with wrenches, feel free to refer to my firearms and other tools as weapons or assault weapons. Until then, I prefer to call them tools. They are inanimate objects incapable of assaulting anyone without human interaction. 'Assault weapon' is a pointless term, unjustly applied to firearms in order to instill fear into the weak-minded.
It is opposite to a defensive weapon, which is what we and police carry. When the 'assault weapon' was created it was designed to aid in an attack by crack troops on an enemy as opposed to the 'service rifle' and by definition, had full auto capability. They were so effective, it was decided to arm nearly ALL the troops with one as a standard weapon. The types of war also evolved to where the assault rifle became much more useful than a long 'service rifle',
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The stuff about how many guns can possibly be identified as 'assault' rifles.

Like they say people are against immigration because they are against illegal immmigration.
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It is opposite to a defensive weapon, which is what we and police carry. When the 'assault weapon' was created it was designed to aid in an attack by crack troops on an enemy as opposed to the 'service rifle' and by definition, had full auto capability. They were so effective, it was decided to arm nearly ALL the troops with one as a standard weapon. The types of war also evolved to where the assault rifle became much more useful than a long 'service rifle',
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I agree with you for the most part, except for one word- weapon.

To me, the word 'weapon' implies malicious intent. If I were using it in defense, I am not the aggressor. I am defending against his maliciousness. I would use whatever tools are available to me in order to counter; a rock up to and including a firearm. Like I said previously, a firearm is an inanimate object; incapable of being a weapon or assaulting someone without human interaction. Humans weaponize objects, not the other way around. Yes, this can mean a rock or a hammer; not necessarily a firearm.

By calling all firearms weapons was the first step in demonizing them to the legislature, courts and private citizens alike; gun control's first blow. Any object is not a weapon unless you use it as such. Remember that.


I'm sorry if I keep hijacking this thread. It is something I feel very strongly about. Correcting this [firearm] language is just as important as correcting the rest of the PC junk the left has forcefed us over the last 8 years.
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Those are the guns that are absolutely intended and considered protected by the second amendment and useful by we, citizens as a balance of power.
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The stuff about how many guns can possibly be identified as 'assault' rifles.

Like they say people are against immigration because they are against illegal immmigration.
This is exactly what BB57 was referring to, in regards to "weapons of war." Calling AR-15s weapons of war is incorrect, just as saying illegals have no right to be here somehow makes you racist or anti-immigration.

Case and point- the same people calling AR-15s weapons of war are the same people supporting illegal immigration.

About the only thing that can fix them is a lobotomy at 2750 ft/s.
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I agree with you for the most part, except for one word- weapon.

To me, the word 'weapon' implies malicious intent. If I were using it in defense, I am not the aggressor. I am defending against his maliciousness. I would use whatever tools are available to me in order to counter; a rock up to and including a firearm. Like I said previously, a firearm is an inanimate object; incapable of being a weapon or assaulting someone without human interaction. Humans weaponize objects, not the other way around. Yes, this can mean a rock or a hammer; not necessarily a firearm.
By calling all firearms weapons was the first step in demonizing them to the legislature, courts and private citizens alike; gun control's first blow. Any object is not a weapon unless you use it as such. Remember that.


I'm sorry if I keep hijacking this thread. It is something I feel very strongly about. Correcting this [firearm] language is just as important as correcting the rest of the PC junk the left has forcefed us over the last 8 years.
Are you suggesting that nothing is a weapon until it is used with malicious intent, and righteous intent to harm is not withing the definition of malice?
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Actually the main difference is.. if the rifle has fully automatic capabilities
Actually if I beat you with a brick it is a assault weapon.
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Are you suggesting that nothing is a weapon until it is used with malicious intent, and righteous intent to harm is not withing the definition of malice?
I would say yes. That rock on the ground, a crow bar or my Glock are just inanimate objects. They become weapons when I decide to use them to cause harm. "Malicious intent" is my own wording. Yes, willfully using an object (not firearms, specifically) to cause harm is malice.

my point was that firearms, like all things, are incapable of causing any harm without human manipulation. Place blame on the human, not the object used.

We need to remove firearms' association to 'weapons.'
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We can clench our tiny fists and stomp our little feet and placate ourselves with meaningless feel-good arguments about semantics and technical definitions till the cows come home, but at the end of the day, this decision was real, and will be enforced by guys with real assault weapons.
We appear to have been granted a few years' reprieve with this last election, but these kind of "progressive" rulings will eventually be coming at us like tsunami, at the national/international level.
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We can clench our tiny fists and stomp our little feet and placate ourselves with meaningless feel-good arguments about semantics and technical definitions till the cows come home, but at the end of the day, this decision was real, and will be enforced by guys with real assault weapons.
We appear to have been granted a few years' reprieve with this last election, but these kind of "progressive" rulings will eventually be coming at us like tsunami, at the national/international level.
Hopefully with this last election we can roll back some of the liberal talking points.

Second, I'm sure a well armed populous is not afraid of the government, nor would the current president deploy them against us.

Third, the last president tried to bring international gun control here. It didn't work. In addition, the Supreme Court ruled (in Medellín v. Texas) that the US is a sovereign nation and that international rulings or treaties are unenforceable without Congress' consent.
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Just wait for our new SC judge.
There is no "new SC judge". If you're referring to Neil Gorsuch, he's still just a nominee to the Supreme Court. His confirmation hearings don't even begin until March. He doesn't have the job yet.

And even when/if he's confirmed, if you believe he's going to wave some sort of judicial magic wand and make all the restrictive 2A laws vanish, you're probably going to be disappointed.
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The real issue is "assault weapons." It is a made-up term, designed to scare people by liberal gun grabbers.
It has no fixed meaning. It's whatever particular firearm or class of firearms (no matter how vaguely defined) which any particular anti-gun cultist wants to ban at any particular moment.
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The term "assault weapon" is nothing more than "bad grammar". The word "assault" is either a verb or an adverb. NOT an "adjective".
Those of us in the "People's Republic of New York" are forbidden to own a
"shoulder fired, magazine fed, gas operated, SEMI automatic rifle with a pistol grip and flash suppressor". "They" claim this was done to make us more "SAFE". From who?
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I imagine this will get to the the Supreme Court. All the more reason for constitutional judges.
No reason to think this will get to the Supreme Court

When Scalia was still alive the Court declined to take the appeal of the Assault Weapon ban out of Highland Park Michigan.

Even with a Gorsuch confirmation there is no reason to think the Maryland case would be heard.
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And if you are a civilian with a fully automatic weapon...you either are rich as hell(cost around $14,000 for a worn out automatic rifle) and procured it properly with all the paperwork...
I not rich, and I didn't pay that much for my WW2 British Lanchester Mk. 1*, but I still can't believe that I paid what I consider a fortune for my gun. $14,000 is still on the low end for registered, transferable machineguns.

My Lanchester is definitely a weapon of war. I can attach a bayonet to my Lanchester, and when I run out of ammunition, I can start stabbing the enemy. The anti-gun loonies in my family have disowned me.
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