Anti-gun Group Wants to Ban Rifles "Too Accurate" for Civilians

Anti-gun Group Wants to Ban Rifles "Too Accurate" for Civilians



There is no such thing as "too" accurate.

David Chipman, a spokesman for Mayors Against Illegal All Guns which lobbies for an expansion of background checks for people buying guns, said the PGF "is not your grandfather's hunting rifle used for sport and recreation this is a weapon designed to kill with precision.

Really? Grandpa's old model 700 Remington is the base that the military uses to build their precision sniper rifles.  Then you have the Winchester model 70. The pre-63 models bring a premium because they were some of the most accurate rifles made.

"This technology potentially enables any two bit criminal to operate with the skills of a highly trained sniper," Chipman said.

Yeah, OK. I haven't seen to many 2 bit criminals with 25 grand to spend on a rifle.

Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, describes the technology as proof that the gun industry is sacrificing public safety for profit, as quoted in the same Oregon Herald article:

"This is an industry hell bent on making weapons more lethal and taking no measures to extend safety," Horwitz said. "If this type of technology is transferred into semi automatic and automatic weapons, it would make it even more lethal."

 Yeah, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Their goal is to disarm everyone except the government. They should really change their name to Collectivists Supporting Government Violence. Because that is what they really want. 

Again, in the same Oregon Herald quoted earlier, NGVAC CEO Elliot Fineman argued that private citizens must be limited by law to firearm technology that makes them miss at least 70% of the time:

… this product gives shooters a better accuracy than, on average, most cops," Fineman said. He said the target accuracy of most police is three out of ten.

"To think that private citizens that are not trained could shoot better than 3 out of 10, it's scary," Fineman said.

I want to know where those other 7 bullets went.

Again, in the same Oregon Herald quoted earlier, NGVAC CEO Elliot Fineman argued that private citizens must be limited by law to firearm technology that makes them miss at least 70% of the time:

… this product gives shooters a better accuracy than, on average, most cops," Fineman said. He said the target accuracy of most police is three out of ten.

"To think that private citizens that are not trained could shoot better than 3 out of 10, it's scary," Fineman said.  

He must have pulled those numbers out of his ass. 30% accuracy? Are we talking about the NYPD? They of spray and pray?

I never heard anything about this.



Thanks to Old Nfo

Anti-Gun Groups No Longer Fighting For Assault Weapons Bans

Alas, gun control groups seem to have moved away from so-called assault weapons bans for reasons pro-Second Amendment groups have espoused for months; they’re ineffective and represent a very small fraction of firearm-related homicides. Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America now calls such policy initiatives “nonstarters.” Nonetheless, that does not mean that these people have abandoned their support for such bans on certain types of firearms

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, is a significant player in a coalition financed by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

50 million of nanny Bloombergs money buys a lot of AstroTurf.

With more information, Watts decided that focusing on access to guns, not types of guns, was a smarter approach. She came to the same conclusion that other gun control groups had reached even before the Sandy Hook shootings: "Ultimately," she said, "what's going to save the most lives are background checks."

The only way universal background checks will work is to register every gun in the country. Students of history know where that leads. Registration=Confiscation=Extermination. A lesson well learned by people like Stalin, Mao and other genocide committing leaders.

As for background checks, they’re already virtually universal. Most gun owners buy from dealers with a federal firearms license who have to by law conduct a background check. Regardless, gun control advocates still perpetuate the myth that 40 percent of gun sales are conducted without a background check. John Lott tore into this narrative in January of 2013 

That 40% myth has been debunked over and over again. Yet they keep throwing it out there.

But the high figure comes primarily from including such transactions as inheritances or gifts from family members. Putting aside these various biases, if you look at guns that were bought, traded, borrowed, rented, issued as a requirement of the job, or won through raffles, 85 percent went through FFLs; just 15 percent were transferred without a background check.If you include these transfers either through FFLs or from family members, the remaining transfers falls to 11.5 percent.We don’t know the precise number today, but it is hard to believe that it is above single digits.

That hardly warrants federal action, especially since gun-related violence is down 39 percent since 1993. Pew Research has the figure higher, with a 49 percent decrease in firearm-related homicides. Then again, the American public is largely unaware that gun violence is down.

The public is unaware because the gun hating press wants the public worried about the crime rates. How else can they advance their agenda of control.

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Thanks to Mike

The Register's Editorial: 1 1/2 years later, VA still silent on patient's death

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 Bold is mine.

Eighteen months ago, Michael Deal, a 65-year-old Army veteran from Spirit Lake, died at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Des Moines. An internal investigation showed that a nurse, Bernard Nesbit, deliberately turned off the alarms that would have alerted the staff to Deal's rapidly decreasing blood-oxygen levels. Deal died was murdered, and Nesbit was fired.

 That part about the decreasing oxygen levels. Mr Deal suffocated to death. murdered just as sure as if he had shot him in the head. Just so he wouldn't be bothered. And yet, he's still a licensed nurse in the state of Iowa.



Where is our county Attorney? Turning off the alarms and allowing Mr. Deal to die is at the least, negligent homicide. It's been 1 1/2 years, why have NO charges been filed? 

Nesbit filed for unemployment benefits, which triggered a public hearing before an administrative law judge. At the hearing, Nesbit admitted switching off the patient alarms. 

He confessed to killing Mr. Deal in front of a judge. He wants unemployment? What he should get is a nice long prison sentence. 

That prompted the judge to ask the hospital's human resources specialist, Greg Smith, whether, in the seven months since the incident, the hospital had reported the matter to the state licensing board for nurses.

"No, we have not," Smith said. "We plan on it. We're just working through how that's to be done."

"What do you have to work through?" the judge asked.

"There's a lengthy process," Smith said. "It has to go up to the central office in the VA for approval to be reported to the state licensing board, and we're not sure how that process works."

7 months after the murder of Mr Deal And this scumbag is still a licensed nurse. All because some idiot bureaucrat doesn't know the procedure. 

But as unresponsive as the VA is, the state of Iowa doesn't fare much better. The Iowa Board of Nursing won't say whether the hospital ever filed a complaint regarding Nesbit. Nor will it say whether it is currently investigating Nesbit, whose license remains in good standing 18 months after Michael Deal died was murdered.

 It has been a year and a half since Michael Deal died while in the care of VA workers. His family and his fellow Iowans deserve to know whether the state and the VA are doing all they can to investigate cover up the matter.

Micheal Deal has been dead for 18 months, where is his justice?