Quit Shooting Down Those Aircraft!

There's a lot of bullshit in this Brady Bunch transition memo, but page 11 in particular caught my eye.

http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/politics/obama-transition-memo.pdf

Since the federal assault weapon law expired in 2004, police in major cities report a resurgence of assault weapon use in crime, with hundreds of people killed on our streets with these weapons of war since late 2004.

I love the source of this "fact": Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Assault Weapons: "Mass Produced Mayhem" (2008)

Those daily shootings you hear about on the news are almost always done with what the Brady Bunch considers safe guns: 22, 9mm, etc. Wouldn't it make more sense to go after those guns than the "weapons of war" that are hardly ever used in crimes? Keep in mind that even if they say "automatic weapon" on the news, they're just talking about a semi-automatic handgun.



Here's the best part:

such as .50 caliber sniper rifles that have the range and power to bring down aircraft

Que? .50 BMG has been used in every American war since WWI, and I have never heard of someone shooting down a plane with one. It would be nearly impossible to hit a moving plane with one, and even if you could hit the plane, it would just put a little hole in it.

Crimes are committed with small caliber handguns that are stolen and sold on the street for less than $100. THOSE are the guns we need to go after. Not $8,000 .50 caliber rifles. I have never ever heard of a .50 cal being used in a crime.

I chose the picture above to illustrate how stupid assault weapon bans are. That rifle is often chambered for M16 or AK47 calibers, it can fire with just as much velocity and just as rapidly as those military style rifles, and it can hold 30 rounds just like those "weapons of war". However since the assault bans are primarily based on looks, it's not in any danger of being banned.