Will You Hand Over Your Guns?

On Dec 7, 1:30 am, Tracey12 wrote: > There is a rumor floating around that Obama is going to outlaw semi- >auto guns.

Romney signed a bill outlawing automatic weapons. Obama never said he'd do that.

Where are semi auto guns outlawed by Romney? Obama never said he'd do a lot of things before he won a 2nd term with nothing to lose.

IIRC, that was done in the 1920's. But hey, what do facts have to do with this argument? Or any political argument here?

Steve

On July 1, 2004, Romney signed a permanent state ban on assault weapons, saying at the signing ceremony for the new law, "Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."[129] The law extended a temporary measure that had been in effect since 1998 and covered weapons such as the AK-47, Uzi, and MAC-10.[129] The same law also modified some other aspects of general firearms licensing regulations.[129]

But he sure as hell would do that.

The NFA was 1934.

I'm sure that all criminals in Massachusetts instantly turned in their evil and deadly assault weapons, too, huh?

Ol' Romney probably didn't carry the NRA vote last month, did he? What an unelectable idiot.

I grinned at this recently:

Actually...it was 1934. And it didnt make them illegal. It simply put a $200 tax on each one when one was transfered from one person to another. Prior to that..machineguns of all sorts were legal for anyone to own. Lots of doughboys brought full sized machine guns back from Europe at the end of WW1. Same with small arty etc etc. The vast number of Maxim machine guns in the US today..and we have a shitload of them..are from the period before 1934.

It wasnt until 1984 (Clinton again) that the law was changed to allow no new machine guns to be "built" or sold into the system. So the ones that are on the books..are all there is. Some 200.000 privately owned "Registered" machine guns. Id make a bet that there are at least that many that were never "registered" back in the day, but still are tucked away here and there.

Some ads of the period

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

As an aside, 200 dollars was a rather more substantial amount of money in 1934 then it is today... probably 3 - 4 weeks pay for the average working bloke.

On 12/15/2012 3:18 PM, Gunner wrote: (snip)

Sorry, that law was enacted in 1986 and signed by POTUS Ronald Reagan. Clinton didn't show up until '92.

David

Gunner on Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:18:37 -0800 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Wonder how many GI "mic'ed" their gun while they were in the service?

-- pyotr Go not to the Net for answers, for it will tell you Yes and no. And you are a bloody fool, only an ignorant cretin would even ask the question, forty two, 47, the second door, and how many blonde lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb.