My RedState post on gun control and magical thinking is up.

Sorry: could have sworn that I had put these up already.  Anyway: here. Short version: the Democrats have only themselves to thank for Americans deciding that maybe assault weapons aren’t so bad, after all.  Oops, I say.  Oops.

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  1. FWIW, the other reason I think it gets called a barbie gun is related to the other nickname for them – poodle shooters. There’s a perception among a certain crowd that due to the round’s relatively low power and diameter, that it’s severely underpowered for the current use it’s intended for.
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    And there’s some truth to that – I have a buddy who takes his deer every year with his, using some hand-loads with a decent hunting bullet that work much better than standard 5.56 military issue (which tend to go straight through without doing much damage). His deer tend to run 40-50 yards after being shot, even with good shot placement. Mine, with my .270, tend to run no more than 10-15, and that’s much more convenient when searching for them.
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    I’ve had to explain to more than one liberal friend that when they use the term ‘high powered assault weapon’ specifically about the AR-15, that all they’ve done is exposed their ignorance on guns to anyone with much of any knowledge on guns at all, since the AR-15 is lower powered than about, oh, 100% of the other rifles that aren’t strictly varmint rounds, like .22LR, or the various .17 calibers, and that it has about 30-40% of the muzzle energy of most hunting rounds, and that when they say something like ‘ban all high-powered rifles like the AR-15’ what knowledgeable people interpret that as is ‘ban every useful hunting rifle in the world’. And sure, that’s exactly what some of them mean, but a whole lot of them don’t.

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