Of course they aren’t coming for your guns.
Apparently the SKS is not an assault rifle because it does not have a pistol grip. It was once used as a weapon of war and can be modified to take a larger magazine from what I can tell but does not have a detachable magazine. From the video I provided, however, one can see that the damage done by such a gun would be great. Assault rifle or not, this boy knew that the SKS would do some serious and deadly damage to human flesh, which you can plainly see on the video link I provided. It doesn’t matter in the end actually. Guns are dangerous and do a lot of damage. Some do more damage than others.
Technically the SKS is not an “Assault Weapon” because it does not have a detachable magazine, and you can tapco your gun to kingdom come and still be legal as far as the AWB is concerned. My FAL is a pattern of rifle generally considered an “Assault Weapon” by the arbitrary AWB definitions, but because mine has a crowned barrel rather than the standard barrel with a flash hider/ bayonet combo attached to a threaded barrel. All I would need to do is thread the barrel (Wally Threatened to do this on several occasions while he was undoing some of the damage done to this fine rifle by the drunken monkeys of Century Arms) and it would suddenly be illegal for me to own it. And what would having threads on my gun do to make it more deadly? Same with having a flash hider and bayonet lug?
Still the SKS is a prime example of a gun that plays it totally kosher with the antis. It has a fixed magazine, and that magazine only holds 10 cartridges, the Yugolasvian M59/66 takes it even further by threading the barrel, and adding a muzzle device for accepting rifle grendades. Of course this is the “Grenade Launcher” the AWB talked about, and it is about as threatening, and archaic as a bayonet lug. Rifle grenades are so outdated most people aren’t even aware they existed, as they were quickly replaced by separate firearms that shot grenades in their own metallic cartridges. These launchers are NFA items, as are any grenades or RPG rockets of any sort, save for training ammo with no explosives.
Still Joan’s quote show’s the stupidity of the AWB. Yep the SKS was a weapon of war, and my Romanian copy was at one point a military weapon of the Romanian army (for the short period of time they issued the SKS, these rifles didn’t see much action in war simply because they were so quickly replaced by the AK-47), of course so was the ubiquitous Mauser K98, which I’m sure Joan’s husband has as one of his deer rifles she’s constantly talking about. Sure most modern deer rifles were never designed as combat weapons, but the same can be said about Norinco SKS rifles, the Chinese got the Russian tooling for their copy of the AK-47 in 1956 and quickly phased out the SKS, just like they did with their copy of the M44. Still Norinco continued to make SKS rifles mostly for sale to civilians. This distinction is of course bullshit, but bullshit is what we’re talking about, isn’t it?
Also, yes the SKS and the 7.62×39 cartridge is quite effective against human targets, but there’s a reason why my go-to rifle is a .308 FAL, its just a better round. Oh and it’s also a common hunting round! Go figure, what will work well against a white tail deer will work well against humans. Notice the recent spat of mass shootings using 12 Gauge shotguns? Isn’t that a common duck and deer gun? Sure is, but it’ll work against people too! So that’s a silly bar for Joan’s distinction.
Also let’s get down into the weeds. The 2nd Amendment is NOT about shooting ducks, deer, paper, or tin cans. It’s about defending your life from enemies foreign and domestic, and these rifles were designed just for that. There is nothing Illegal or criminal about shooting and/or killing people if you are defending your life. Of course Joan doesn’t agree with that either.
Are Stand Your Ground type laws, as written pretty much by the corporate gun lobby, what most Americans want? Are they necessary or do they give a license to kill to individuals such as the two shooters above who took matters into their own hands when death could have been avoided by handling the situation differently? For if a gun is at the ready and the mindset is that of fear and paranoia backed up by the idea that killing someone is OK, we have a gun culture gone wrong and young people ( it is mostly young people) being senselessly shot to death for trespassing. When a man sits up for 3 nights waiting to shoot someone, it seems like “overkill” to me. When another man sets up an easy chair in his basement waiting for intruders to come down his stairs so he can shoot them, it seems like “overkill” to me.
She’s prattling about these cases, and look at how quickly she ignores reality to prop up her crippled agenda. If Stand your Ground and the Castle Doctrine are “License to kill”, and a cultural standpoint where killing people in this way is acceptable, why is the man who shot the two kids in his basement going to spend the rest of his life in prison? Doesn’t make a lot of “Common Sense” does it? We have stand your ground and Castle Doctrine to protect people LEGALLY defending themselves. It does nothing to legalize murder or manslaughter or any other form of illegal killing. It simply makes the law on LEGAL killing more clear to the courts and police.
PERIOD.
Still Joan doesn’t have a problem with the Castle Doctrine, or Stand Your Ground, or even the SKS rifle. She has an issue with gun ownership and the legal use of firearms in general. You will also see that this post will still be live days, weeks, and years from now, with no retractions. Just look at this post, Joan is calling for door-to-door confiscation of all firearms, and her compatriots at the Brady Campaign, and the Joyce Foundation haven’t made a flap about it. Compare this to Dick Metcafe, and Jim Zumbo. They made far less egregious statements, and their punishment was swift and absolute. Why? Because pro-gun groups don’t stand for that kind of crap.
Anti-gun groups DO! They ARE coming for your guns, and they DO want to ban self defense in America. Thankfully they are losing ground faster than they can take it back, still the threat is real, and we know their goals!
