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Posner on Sotomayor

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OldLineTexan5/26/2009 1:44:45 pm PDT

re: #503 avanti

With a assault rifle and armor piercing ammo and a Ron Paul bumper sticker.

“Assault weapon” is what you’re after … it’s the term the Loony Libs coined for scary legal guns. It can be anything a lawmaker lobbyist wants it to be.

“Assault rifle” is a selective-fire weapon in a rifle caliber. The term was invented by the Germans.

The US M4 carbine is an assault rifle. My AR-15, which shares some parts but has no automatic capability, is an “assault weapon”.

Almost any “major” rifle caliber will pierce body armor most effectively. “Armor-piercing” ammo is another boogeyman created by anti-rights enthusiasts, although the quest for it has been taken up with great glee by ignorant KKKers and others once the pot was stirred. Way to go, Josh Sugarmann.

Ron Paul. Well, he’s Texas’ fault, there are no two ways around that.