The Second Amendment is obsolete

Lee Gaillard plays the “the National Guard is the ‘well-regulated militia’ game”, then tosses this out there:

We obviously have access to firearms. People facing potentially dangerous workplace confrontations can apply for concealed weapon permits; buying a rifle to hunt deer poses no problem.

On the other hand, there’s a huge difference between sporting rifles and high-cyclic-rate-of-fire weapons designed to suppress enemy defenses during military assaults — in the process disabling or killing as many human beings as possible. Despite Congress’ failure to renew the assault weapons ban, there is no justification for civilians to possess machine pistols or automatic rifles. [emphasis Murdoc's]

This, folks, is just plain out deception on the part of Mr. Gaillard. It must be, because I doubt he’s a total moron. Unless he’s a moron, he must know that his statement about the AWB and automatic weapons is completely and utterly dishonest.

To recap:

1. The Assault Weapons Ban didn’t ban machine pistols or automatic rifles
2. The sunset of the AWB didn’t make machine pistols or automatic rifles legal
3. Machine pistols and automatic rifles have been illegal (except in a few specific circumstances) for decades
4. The DC case, the AWB, and the NRA’s lobbying all have absolutely ZERO to do with machine pistols and automatic rilfes

Otherwise, Mr. Gaillard’s comment is one the money. It’s almost like he’s trying to mislead readers, or something.

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