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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Agreed. Good post. I stopped my membership in the 60s when they switched their emphasis from hunting animals and weapons designed for hunting to high margin expensive military style firearms used almost exclusively to KILL HUMANS - in effect hunting HUMANS. I personally would never shoot at a human outline or drawing of a human, even a depiction of a criminal. I would shoot only bulleyes. The NRA also pushed paint ball, which is basically practice for some imagined World War III or an apocalypse - Again it is hunting HUMANS. I also slowly switched to bow hunting which gave longer seasons and more of a woodsman challenge - also more time to walk among nature.
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Yep, there are pacifists and there are patriots. Too bad folks do not know anything about firearms and think that anything that has a plastic stock is "military like." By the way, just for S&G's the 2nd talks about firearms in the context of a local militia. Of course, this is a straw man's argument, but I wonder if anyone understands that if you ever have to fight the gov. a "military like" weapon would be most folks choice. Therefore, outlawing "military like" weapons would be construed as violating the theme of the 2nd Amendment, right?
By the way, most pistols now are semi-automatic, not automatic. Most rifles now are semi-automatic, including shotguns. When the 2nd Amendment was written, did they mention what constituted a "military like" weapon and what would just be used for hunting? I don't really think that they were thinking of hunting when they wrote the 2nd.
An assault weapon can be anything, not just a automatic or semi-automatic. They did not have either when they wrote the Amendment. An assault weapon then was a musket or a tomahawk. Now, most define an assault weapon as a fully automatic rifle or machine gun. The only way you can get one is to pay a tax stamp with the federal gov. and fill out a fifteen page document and then a full background investigation. Can you tell me if you can remember in the last fifty years of anyone that committed a crime with a legally owned automatic weapon? Key term "legally owned."