Focus on Chicago Gangs and ‘Assault Weapons’ Reanimates Old Gun Ban Tactic

By David Codrea

By David Codrea

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “Assault rifles were used in all incidents, and city officials say they are becoming the weapon of choice in certain parts of Chicago,” CBS 2 dutifully warns. All the talking point elements are there, from using a term intended to demonize semi-automatic rifles in the title and repeating it five times in the “story,” to bolstering a sense of urgency among the uninformed that something must be done.

The neighborhoods are paying the price, little children are being endangered, everyone is scared, and there’s a proliferation of such weapons. “30-plus rounds [can be] unloaded,” and they’re being brought in by “trunkloads” from states with “lax gun laws.”

Translation: We need to ban the guns. We need to ban the magazines. We need “universal background checks” and we need to close down the “iron pipeline.” For the children.

That fact that millions of Americans lawfully and peaceably own semi-automatic rifles goes unstated. Their rights are to be defined by feral misfits who are neither lawful nor peaceable, and whose …Read the Rest

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