New Mexico AWB dead

[Lurks Often]

See here:

http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2013/02/21/politics/proposed-assault-weapon-ban-killed-in-late-night-committee.html

Nice to see some more common sense

[upaloopa]

1. Most people don't agree with you.

[Lurks Often]

2. A strong argument can be made that the 1994 AWB was the high water mark of the anti-gun crowd.

The Pro-gun rights side seems to be winning the majority of court cases and in the various states legislatures since 1994.

[Pullo]

5. And to support that assessment ....

[hack89]

6. State legislators know their constituents.

it is telling that in state after state AWBs are being discussed and quickly dropped.

[krispos42]

8. That might well be

However, my opinion is that most people also can't define "assault weapon".

What an assault weapons ban tells me that if I have a semi-automatic rife fed from a detachable magazine, adding a protruding pistol grip, telescoping buttstock, or barrel shroud (heat shield) increases the lethality to unacceptable levels.


But, if I take the pistol grip or whatever off, it is now at an acceptable level of lethality.




In other words...


This is okay:






But this isn't:

[clffrdjk]

10. I am on your side

But with the language that I keep seeing I don't know if even that first rifle would be excluded in the new bills. That part about a off hand grip that partially or fully encircles the barrel makes me nervous.

[raidert05]

3. meh...

[Pullo]

4. Another one bites the dust!

So many gun ban attempts have been scuttled this week. This is all entirely predictable. The urge to push reactionary legislation fades as logic and reason begin assert themselves over time.

[holdencaufield]

7. Rember to remove the head ...

... or a re-animated corpse of the bill may rise from the grave.



"When there is no more room in the legislature -- the dead bills will walk the Earth" -- George Romero

[ileus]

9. A little good news in the darkest of times.

Let's hope the trend continues.