FBI: More People Killed with Hammers, Clubs Each Year than Rifles

[PegLeg45]

The dreaded "Assault Bat"....


And we need hammer locks too.....

[TAB]

Whats funny is all the big names go after rifles,  when its most often hand guns that are used.   just look at the bradys.  He was shot with a snubby. ( a rossi 38 iirc)   yet the brady bill was about semi auot rifles and 10 + round mags.   why not ban snubbys?

[tombogan03884]

Whats funny is all the big names go after rifles,  when its most often hand guns that are used.   just look at the bradys.  He was shot with a snubby. ( a rossi 38 iirc)   yet the brady bill was about semi auot rifles and 10 + round mags.   why not ban snubbys?

It was a .22 LR, I don't recall the brand.

[Ulmus]

Rohm RG.

I'm just worried that the depatrment of H.B.C. (hammers, bats, and clubs) is going to storm into my house an take my arsenal of hammers away.  (I have seven of them, including a finnishing hammer that could be used by spys for asssasinations.)

[kmitch200]

Ulmus beat me to it....

Per Wiki:
Hinckley fired a Röhm RG-14 .22 cal. blue steel revolver six times in 1.7 seconds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_assassination_attempt

Tab, they did try to ban snubbies, ever heard the term "Saturday Night Special"? Like "assault rifle", a made up term meant to demonize small, low cost handguns.

Just the kind of gun a poor old couple might buy for protection if they lived in the projects. But they don't deserve to have 2A rights because of their low budget status.


 

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[tombogan03884]

Ulmus beat me to it....

Per Wiki:
Hinckley fired a Röhm RG-14 .22 cal. blue steel revolver six times in 1.7 seconds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_assassination_attempt

Tab, they did try to ban snubbies, ever heard the term "Saturday Night Special"? Like "assault rifle", a made up term meant to demonize small, low cost handguns.

Just the kind of gun a poor old couple might buy for protection if they lived in the projects. But they don't deserve to have 2A rights because of their low budget status.

That's correct.
It was a racist phrase that according to one news story at the time came from the fact that "The darkies" bought these cheap guns, and when they got drunk on Saturday night would shoot each other with them" IIRC it was the NYC Chief of Police who continued on to assure America that if they got these cheap guns out of the hands of the less rational blacks then crime would go away.
Except of course for  corruption, in the NYPD, and politics in general , have to find another utopian solution for that.

[PegLeg45]

That's correct.
It was a racist phrase that according to one news story at the time came from the fact that "The darkies" bought these cheap guns, and when they got drunk on Saturday night would shoot each other with them" IIRC it was the NYC Chief of Police who continued on to assure America that if they got these cheap guns out of the hands of the less rational blacks then crime would go away.
Except of course for  corruption, in the NYPD, and politics in general , have to find another utopian solution for that.

Most all restrictive gun legislation from years past were based on racist policies.

[McGyver]

Personally, I'm not gun-racist at all. I like blued and parkerized just as well as stainless and nickel finishes! 

[tombogan03884]

Before the Clinton AWB ALL gun laws were aimed at least in part, at disarming blacks.

[PegLeg45]