NY Post Calls For Ban On Most Popular Rifle In The Country

By Cam Edwards

The New York Post is blasting its support for a new ban on semi-automatic rifles on the front page of the paper today. Op-ed editor Sohab Ahmari tweeted out the news earlier this morning, calling the most commonly sold rifles in the country today “military-grade weapons.”

Military-grade weapons should have no place in our streets.

In a historic cover editorial, the NYPost comes out in favor of banning assault weapons. Now.https://t.co/ZYOVSFzZVR

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) August 5, 2019

Semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15 aren’t “military grade”. If they were, that’s what our military would be using. We’re talking about a rifle design that’s first became available to civilians around the same time the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Millions of Americans own them for lawful purposes, and they’re used far less in crimes than handguns. In an outright lie, however, the Post claims they’re only used by killers.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to own “guns in common use.” That doesn’t cover the semiautomatic weapons regularly used only in mass shootings.

So, according to the editorial staff at the New York Post, the most commonly sold …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms