Florida Alert! What Exactly is an "Assault Weapon?"
| DATE: | July 5, 2020 |
| TO: | USF & NRA Members and Friends |
| FROM: | Marion P. Hammer |
| | USF Executive Director |
| | NRA Past President |
What Exactly is an “Assault Weapon?”
By Marion P. Hammer
“Assault weapon” is a manufactured term designed to fool honest people. It is a play on words. Technically, an “assault weapon” is a tool, an implement, or anything that is used as a weapon to assault another person.
If you have ever read police reports you may have seen the term used to describe anything used as a weapon. For example: “the assault weapon was a baseball bat; the assault weapon was a kitchen knife; the assault weapon was a fireplace poker; the assault weapon was a table lamp.”
In the category or field of firearms and ammunition there is no such thing as an “assault weapon.” It is a term for which there is no specific definition. That is intentional. The term provides gun prohibitionists with a means to define it to mean what they want to ban at the time.
All semiautomatic firearms, are functionally IDENTICAL. It is the same technology that has been used for over 100 years.
Compare a rifle or shotgun to a person. A person is born naked, without clothes. That person must be dressed. The clothes put on that person influences how he/she looks to the average person. It can be a tuxedo, a clown suit, a snow suit, a swim suit; jeans and a t-shirt or any manner of clothing. How the person is dressed most often determines what you think of the person but the fact remains – it is the same identical person no matter how he or she is dressed.
A rifle or shotgun is like a person. You can take the gun – the mechanism (barrel, receiver and trigger assembly) – out of a beautiful, traditional, magnificent grain, shiny wood stock and put it in an ugly black, plastic, adjustable stock, with a pistol grip, and a barrel shroud and it is still the exact same rifle or shotgun. It fires exactly the same. The only difference is the way it looks.
That is no different from a lady in an elegant dress, nylon stockings, Christian Louboutin high heel shoes and some expensive jewelry who changes clothes into blue jeans, a sweat shirt, Nike athletic shoes and a Timex watch. It is exactly the same person. The only difference is the way she looks.
You might take that expensive rifle or shotgun in the traditional wood stock to a gun show to show it off but you don’t want to take it to the woods hunting on a cold wet rainy day.
And you might take that elegantly dressed lady to dinner at a fancy high-class restaurant, but you certainly don’t want to make her clean house and scrub toilets dressed like that.
You have been willfully and intentionally deceived on the assault weapons issue. You should be angry that gun ban organizers think you are stupid enough to fall for their trickery.
So, do you really know what the "assault weapons" issue is all about? Or do you only know what the gun ban organizers want you to think?
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