Whoopi Says She Wants to Ban Automatic Weapons — Watch When Rand Tells Her They’re Already Illegal

By Oliver Darcy

Whoopi Goldberg seems to be under the impression that automatic weapons are still legal in the U.S.

During Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” Goldberg pleaded with Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul on gun control and said that she couldn’t understand why “anyone objects to getting rid of automatic weapons.”

Automatic weapons were outlawed for private citizens by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and remain illegal for personal ownership today.

“Automatic weapons, they’re not for hunting. They do nothing — they’re only there to kill. And you’ll notice that a lot of things that happened are with automatic weapons,” she claimed to Paul. “When we see that why don’t we say, ‘Who really needs to have one other than people that are at war?’”

The crowd erupted in applause before Paul could explain that the very weapons Goldberg was referring to are already illegal and only available to the military.

“Truly automatic weapons we don’t have,” he said. “We banned truly automatic weapons in I think 1934.”

Goldberg interjected, “But we still got a lot of them Rand. C’mon!”

“What we have is not automatic weapons,” Paul quipped back. “It’s semi-automatic. …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze