ABC News Tries (And Fails) To Explain The 1994 “Assault Weapons Ban”

By Cam Edwards

Today’s the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Clinton Gun Ban, which banned certain models of semi-automatic firearms by name, and banned all semi-automatic rifles and shotguns equipped with particular features. That means the media has another opportunity to spout nonsense about “assault weapons”, and ABC News has gone all out in an attempt to explain the ban and why it’s no longer on the books (spoiler alert: the law came with an 10-year expiration date and there wasn’t enough political support to renew the ban in 2004).

Most reviews of the 1994 version of the assault weapons ban point to loopholes in the text of the bill that, some argue, made it less effective than some would have wanted.

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The biggest of the various loopholes in the bill was that it only applied to the specified types of weapons and large-capacity magazines that were created after the bill became law, meaning that there was nothing illegal about owning or selling such a weapon or magazine that had been created before the law was signed.

That’s not a “loophole”, it’s called “grandfathering”, but it’s telling that ABC News wants its audience to consider the fact that people weren’t criminalized …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms