On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:28:10 GMT, "Bernard Farquart"
> wrote:

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>"Big Bill" > wrote in message
.. .
>>>Are you sure? what exactly do you think happened to all those
>>>guns? Were they thrown out? You just couldn't buy a *new*
>>>one for awhile, but you certainly could still buy them. or you could buy
>>>the
>>>new version without the flash supressor, or with an attached
>>>magazine.
>>
>> And if I don't want to buy used?
>> And if I wanted the one with a flash suppressor and removable
>> magazine?
>> Or bayonet lug?
>> Are you actually trying to say the so-called assault weapon ban wasn't
>> there?

>Nope, just didn't really stop anything from being sold or purchased.
>You could still go buy an UZI, they just weren't being imported.
>
>I am saying it had very little real effect, and was not a very big
>deal.

What they were able to accomplish is not the same as what they _wanted_ to
accomplish. Dianne Feinstein from California was quoted as saying, "If it were
up to me, I'd be saying, "Hand them all over, turn them all in Mr. and Mrs.
America" " or words to that affect. Democrats by and large _do_ _desire_ to
enact a total gun ban, but its Repiblicans, by and large, that are keeping them
from doing it.

And its their stance on this issue that's keeping them from winning a lot of
the elections. People want their guns, and will vote against those that are
perceieved to be an enemy of that end.

Dave Head

>It was all *marketing* (on both sides)
>>>
>
>
>>>The only laws being passed that have any real bearing
>>>on your gun rights are the local/state ones. I live in
>>>a "shall issue" state with regards to CW permits, so
>>>I don't really feel to threatened. If I lived in NY I
>>>would only be talking about gun rights in a historical
>>>theoretical way.
>>
>> See the so-called assault weapon ban.
>> As for not feeling threatened, it's obvious you need to thank a lot of
>> people who *do* see their rights threatened.
>>>
>>>>>I have plenty of guns, and consider myself to be pretty blue.
>>>>
>>>> Consider who wants to change that.
>>>>>
>>>No one in my state has been tring to
>>>do so, and we have not seen a Republican
>>>govenor in twenty years, I object to the
>>>"democrats want to take your guns away"
>>>BS I keep hearing. I am one. I don't want
>>>to take your guns away, get it?
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Now, if you could talk to Schumer (he's from New York, ISTR) and get
>> him to stop his attempts to end your rights, I'd appreciate it.
>>>
>
>Is he going to actually take your guns away?
>
>Is he going to change the state constitution in WA?
>
>I doubt either.
>
>.
>>
>> The vast majority of gun grabbers (attempted or actual) are Dems.
>>>
>I do not see any running and winning on a gun control agenda,
>who am I missing?
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