Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

[The Grand Nudger]

Liberals in congress know they lack the power to enact such legislation..however, the liberals which, presumably, elect them...are asking for us to go the way of gun bans, yes. All that's needed is a good, emotionally charged incident to make people lose their sense, as mass shootings made us lose our sense and enact a bevy of ineffective laws which have since lapsed.

Targeted bans will only work, in this country, if they aim squarely at handguns, which are already the most heavily restricted class of firearm in the US. Our congress critters have a history of leaving them untouched, however, and focusing on guns that look scarier in pictures, or guns that they can misidentify as assault rifles nee assault "style" rifles. In reality, that class of firearms is filled with hunting rifles and target guns painted black. It's a manufactured boogeyman. I'm no fan of the AR series, but at least I know what it is...and what it isn't.

The AR series is the darling of well moneyed target shooters and 3 gun comp runners. A demographic that, emphatically, does -not- shoot people - not even in self defense (they're rarely in such a position). It;s not the go-to gun of the criminal or the criminally insane. It's the go-to gun of middle aged suburbanite white men with a few thousand dollars to spare and no criminal record. They're hard to get ahold of, easy to spot, difficult to use, and most commonly chambered in .22 centerfire or other small game rounds (to keep target shooting costs down). Functionally, they're no different than the old long wooden barrel loading .22 semi autos no one worries about.....except they jam alot more often. Their main advantage, their reason for existence, is that a short barreled carbine puts less stress on the shooters arms, leading to tighter shot groupings at-range on a range. That they have a military pedigree is marketing, entirely untrue, but effective for pushing units through retailers and working the gun control crowd up into a frenzy state where their comments are no longer representative of reality, where their solutions can not and will not achieve their aims.