Tuesday, July 08, 2008
More on Guns
Reader Nate writes in:
You'll get lots of letters on this topic, I'll be brief:
Splash, out
Jason
You'll get lots of letters on this topic, I'll be brief:
You're Army so you trained on the Beretta M-9. First shot double action, later shots single action. That's why you like autos - later shots straighter, less trigger pull.
BUT the most popular cop gun brand is Glock, which is double-action only. Every trigger pull is full cycle. Makes it handle just like a double-action revolver. No accuracy advantage to the auto over a revolver but no disadvantage, either.
Second-shot accuracy of autos over revolvers isn't a good reason to object to the DC policy.
Heller said the Second Amendment protects weapons in common usage, but not unusual weapons. Leaving aside all the 9mm Glocks and Berettas in private hands, the venerable .45 ACP was invented 99 years ago and there are literally millions in service across the country. There's nothing unusual about semi-auto pistols, regardless of magazine capacity. If the Second Amendment doesn't limit us to muskets (the arms common in 1776), it doesn't limit us to arms common before 1900, either (revolvers instead of autos). That's the real basis for objecting to DC's policy.
Splash, out
Jason
Thursday, June 26, 2008
180 Degrees
Damn. It didn't take long after Obama had the libtard nomination in the bag for him to utterly reverse his position on the DC gun ban, did it?
I'll give it to him... he's got spine. Like a pretzel.
Twit.
I'll give it to him... he's got spine. Like a pretzel.
Twit.
