Weapons Of War

Pictured above are genuine weapons of war.  The bottom one served in the Pacific theater in WW2.  These are not neutered variations or clones of the real thing.  They ARE the real thing.

I mention this because I read this dead link and thought appropriate to mention it too.

My ARs and the SA58 are mere shadows of the guns they resemble.  All of them lack the third position on the fire selector.  Not a single one of them has that final requirement of a true assault rifle.

The '94 Assault Weapon Ban did not affect these old warhorses at all.  .30-06 HOLLOW POINTS penetrate more armor than 5.56 ARMOR PIERCING!  Put that in your pipe and smoke it.  That .30-06 will also reach out and touch at about three times the range of an AR or more than four times the AK.  The country is literally awash in these old guys.  Garand, Springfield, Krag, Mosin, SMLE, MAS etc...  All of them built around a real live high-power cartridge.

What happens if we pass no laws banning guns?  Nothing more than is happening already, really.  I definitely would like to illuminate that these old guns are simply never used in crime.

What worries me is someone will forget some hard history lessons and attempt to ban the scary looking guns.  What happens when that mythical 3% believe that they have less to lose by shooting than obeying?  These boys are shooters!  They expend thousands of rounds every year.  I've seen the police and Army shoot.  The Army makes up for their accuracy in volume.  The police?  Not so much.  And it will be the police that bear the brunt of their shooting.

I've read repeatedly about how the cops are mostly good guys and support our rights fully.  OK.  But someone is going to have to reconcile that confiscation under a ban would be carried out by the police and our "good cops" will be wearing the uniform of the enemy.  Will the good cops accept being fired and thus both unemployed and barred from future employment as police, or will they simply obey the orders to enforce the law?  Will we see sheriffs, elected officials, order the arrest of ATF or FBI agents attempting to enforce unconstitutional laws or will they order their deputies to cooperate in order to keep federal funding flowing?  I don't think this is a very hard question, really.  I also think that behavior of the police in and around New Orleans during and after Katrina shows us what the answers are.  It makes me sad.

It can all be averted.  Simply leave the topic alone.  The status quo is being tolerated.  Sure, the gunnies grumble and yes, the laws we have are unconstitutional, but they aren't causing anyone to start shooting.  The unconstitutionality of those laws are currently the subject of debate and a willingness to get them repealed by the same means as they were imposed.  Isn't that much better than civil war?  I think so.