Chauchat
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You nailed it, Smokey. You are my new best friend when it comes to the law. May I suggest you use these links from now on.Here's one version of what an "Assault weapon" is...
Text of H.R. 698: Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 (Introduced version) - GovTrack.us
Text of H.R. 698: Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 as of Feb 1, 2023 (Introduced version). H.R. 698: Assault Weapons Ban of 2023www.govtrack.us
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"A semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm"... so a glock 17 is an "Assault weapon" because the glock 18 exists and also because it takes 17 round mags. It becomes even more assault weaponlier if a pistol's dust cover counts as a "barrel shroud" and if it has a threaded barrel.
This is all the term "Assault weapon" currently is... an umbrella term for guns antigunners want to ban. You are wasting your time with any other attempt at defining it.
Use https://www.congress.gov/search?q={"source":"legislation","congress":118} for bills in the 118th congress.
Use https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/bills/118/hr/{"pageSize":"20","offset":"0"} for authenticated documents
The US Code https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/uscode/2020/
Slip laws https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/plaw/118/public/all/{"pageSize":"20","offset":"0"}
Statutes At Large https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/statute/2017
Arms owners are some of the most ignorant gum flappers in North America. That's right. Ignorant. Not stupid. Most of them are educated men but they choose to be ignorant and the Anti's dance rings around them because of their ignorance.
I would say eighty-nine per cent argue from emotion. That is the losers game. Another six percent move closer to the issue at hand. Both of these groups are playing a defensive game or no game at all. The remaining five percent at the ones taking the game to the Antis.
Chauchat rules for Patriots
Argue the Declaration. Then the Articles After, that Constitution. Finally the Amendments. Don't talk about constitutional rights. Hammer our elected types why they are not performing their duties of ensuring our rights under the Declaration of Independence.
Go directly to the original source document for your education. (Has any of you read the Bill of the first twelve amendments sent to the States by that congress?)
Know which theater you are working in at the moment. Is it the Congressional level? One of the fifty States? Territories and possessions?
Stop using the word "weapon". That's a shout out to all the Army and Marine types who are brain washed by basic training to call a rifle a weapon. It goes for cops and cop sycophants, also. We have the right to bear arms and not the right to bear weapons. The rally cry in history has always been "To Arms! To Arms!". "To weapons!", said no one ever.
The devil IS in the definitions. Any of you Veterans and military types who have ever read a regulation in the USAF, Army, Navy, or the Corps has the skill set required to read congressional bills, statutes, and regulations.
We use words with, at most times, a common meaning. The law uses legal terms and all legal terms are defined.
The law is written in clear language. The void for vagueness rule is, paraphrasing, if statute cannot be read by a citizen of average education then the law is void for vagueness. Our education and vocabulary is faulty or deficient
Do not read any thing into the law and do not read any thing out of the law. It says and means what it says and means. Nothing else.
The code of Federal Regulations must use the same definitions as the statute for which they were written.
Don't use the words of the anti-rights communists and fascists. If they spout off about assault weapons come up with a different word, like militia arm.
Don't dance to Brady's or Bloomberg's tune. Make them dance to ours.
Finally, Justice Thomas showed us the path forward. Don't let him or your posterity down.
