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Doing some link surfing from one site to another, I came across an entry in Wikipedia and decided to stay there a while browsing 2nd amendment/gun issues.
Was pleasantly surprised that an entry for Colt's XM-177 included a note that "it is not a true sub-machine gun, since the latter fires pistol ammunition". Hmm, they seem to know their technical gun facts.
Clicking on submachine gun contained a link to the National Firearms Act of 1934 which stated that "the law was found to be unconstitutional in State vs. Miller, though the ruling was overturned on appeal to the Supreme Court as the defendant failed to appear, and no brief was filled on Miller's behalf." Hmm, interesting. Wonder why he didn't appear at his own appeal?
Clicking on the link to the definition for the 2nd Amendment revealed that he didn't show up because he was murdered. Wow! I didn't know that. I wonder how things would have changed if he'd never been killed and showed up.
The definition further stated that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the 2001 case United States v. Emerson, "as used throughout the Constitution, 'the people' have 'rights' and 'powers,' but federal and state governments only have 'powers' or 'authority', never 'rights.'" Furthermore, There is no evidence in the text of the Second Amendment, or any other part of the Constitution, that the words 'the people' have a different connotation within the Second Amendment than when employed elsewhere in the Constitution." Cool ruling!
I then clicked on the definiton of the Assault weapons ban . There I found some interesting info including "This law is ineffective because the particular features that are prohibited do not enhance the capabilities of a given weapon, they remain in fact identical to their non-prohibited counterparts. Thus, making these features illegal does nothing to prevent crime or make the guns any less dangerous, especially since they were used in less than 1% of crimes to begin with."
The link from there to the term assault weapons describes the confusion between the terms assault weapon and assault rifle: "The frequent and innacurate use of the term assault rifle by media and gun control supporters when reporting on or discussing assault weapons has produced a popular misconception that assault weapons are fully-automatic machine guns. Some commentators use the terms interchangeably, potentially confusing the less-informed public, perhaps intentionally to encourage opposition to firearms."
Links to disarmament groups such as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence are interesting as well.
Very cool website!
Was pleasantly surprised that an entry for Colt's XM-177 included a note that "it is not a true sub-machine gun, since the latter fires pistol ammunition". Hmm, they seem to know their technical gun facts.
Clicking on submachine gun contained a link to the National Firearms Act of 1934 which stated that "the law was found to be unconstitutional in State vs. Miller, though the ruling was overturned on appeal to the Supreme Court as the defendant failed to appear, and no brief was filled on Miller's behalf." Hmm, interesting. Wonder why he didn't appear at his own appeal?
Clicking on the link to the definition for the 2nd Amendment revealed that he didn't show up because he was murdered. Wow! I didn't know that. I wonder how things would have changed if he'd never been killed and showed up.
The definition further stated that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the 2001 case United States v. Emerson, "as used throughout the Constitution, 'the people' have 'rights' and 'powers,' but federal and state governments only have 'powers' or 'authority', never 'rights.'" Furthermore, There is no evidence in the text of the Second Amendment, or any other part of the Constitution, that the words 'the people' have a different connotation within the Second Amendment than when employed elsewhere in the Constitution." Cool ruling!
I then clicked on the definiton of the Assault weapons ban . There I found some interesting info including "This law is ineffective because the particular features that are prohibited do not enhance the capabilities of a given weapon, they remain in fact identical to their non-prohibited counterparts. Thus, making these features illegal does nothing to prevent crime or make the guns any less dangerous, especially since they were used in less than 1% of crimes to begin with."
The link from there to the term assault weapons describes the confusion between the terms assault weapon and assault rifle: "The frequent and innacurate use of the term assault rifle by media and gun control supporters when reporting on or discussing assault weapons has produced a popular misconception that assault weapons are fully-automatic machine guns. Some commentators use the terms interchangeably, potentially confusing the less-informed public, perhaps intentionally to encourage opposition to firearms."
Links to disarmament groups such as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence are interesting as well.
Very cool website!
