I just sent them a letter
This is what I wrote, lets see if they reply or respond
Your recent broadcast on the upcoming Assault Weapons Ban expiration was full of lies and inaccuracies that I would not have expected from your network. Your show showed clips from the North Hollywood bank robbery. It showed the criminals using fully automatic weapons. The Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) does not have anything to do with fully automatic weapons. The AWB has to do with cosmetic feature not being allowed on military style Semi Automatic Rifles.
The AWB prohibits the following features:
1) a folding or telescopic stock,
2) a Pistol grip protruding conspicuously beneath the stock,
3) a bayonet mount,
4) a flash suppressor or threaded barrel,
5) an attached grenade launcher
My question to you is this. When was the last time you heard of a Criminal holding up a store with a bayonet equipped rifle or a drive-by bayoneting, or when was the last time two rival gangs started shooting grenades at each other. The AWB has done NOTHING to reduce Crime.
Let’s face the facts. Criminals can not legally purchase firearms. If they did, they would not be criminals. The playing of the North Hollywood bank robbery footage has no bearing on the AWB. Those criminals had already broken the law prior to committing the robbery by illegally converting a Semi-Automatic Rifle into a Fully Automatic weapon. They broke a law that was enacted in 1934 prohibiting the possession or manufacture of a fully automatic weapon without a license.
Many supporters of the AWB say that once the ban is lifted any criminal or mentally ill person will be able to get an assault rifle and the streets will become a war-zone. This is a blatant lie, as it is already illegal for criminals and the mentally ill to own or possess firearms of ANY type, to include a simple BB gun. The AWB only affects law abiding citizen’s ability to purchase rifles with these so called evil features.
Police Chief William Bratton is either confused or does not know what he was talking about. He stated that these Banned weapons could fire 30 rounds in 5 seconds. This is a blatant lie due to the fact that to shoot a Semi-Automatic Rifle, you have to pull the trigger each time for the rifle to fire. A Fully Automatic weapon has the capability of one pull of the trigger and 30 rounds would be fired. My credentials on knowing this bit of information do not come from what I have read or seen on ABC. I am a United States Marine, helping to defend this great nation. Being a Marine means we use and become familiar with the capabilities of the weapons in the US arsenal. The only weapons that can fire 30 rounds in 5 seconds are the fully-automatic weapons, and as I have stated before are not allowed for civilian possession unless licensed. I have fired many fully automatic weapons during my Marine Corps career, and have fired many semi-automatic weapons. I was never able to fire 30 rounds with a semi-automatic weapon in 5 seconds.
In fact the article on your website has inaccuracies to it. To quote your website “It also means that the barrel of the gun can come equipped with a flash suppressor, which makes it more difficult to see the location of the shooter at night.†This is not what a flash suppressor does. A flash suppressor is designed to divert the light from the muzzle flash of a rifle fired at night from the shooters eyes. In my belief it enhances the flash when seen from the targets perspective. It does not make a shooter harder to see, it allows him to fire without being blinded by the flash of the muzzle.
Many supporters of the AWB love to use the term “Assault Rifleâ€. Do you know where or who came up with this term? That person was Adolf Hitler. He coined the phase by naming a automatic rifle that the Nazi’s were developing the “Sturmgewher-44†or when translated to english "Assault Rifle-44". This weapon had a fully automatic capability. It had a detachable 30 round magazine. Your show incorrectly labeled semi automatic rifles “Assault Rifles†because the look similar to actual “Assault Riflesâ€. This is like saying that all cars are Fords. They are similar. I can also use the comparison “NBC, ABC, CBS, they are similar.
I will not watch your show again unless you make a retraction or correction, and I will advise my friends and neighbors to do the same. Like I said before NBC is similar, I guess I will have to watch that channel instead. You have my permission to post this letter.