Better stock up on ’em while you can!

Since our elected representative are not representing, and the American public doesn’t seem to be voting these jokers out of office, it’s pretty much a forgone conclusion that any gun that looks like a military rifle is going to get banned, yet again.

Obama Administration Mentions Reinstating ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
Thursday, February 26, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com) – “As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters at the Justice Department Wednesday.

He made the comments at a press conference called to announce the results of an anti-drug investigation known as “Operation Xcellerator.”

Holder said a ban on sales of semi-automatic weapons will stem the flow of weapons to Mexican cartels.

[What a bunch of BS.  Shore up the damn border, and there won’t be any large flow of weapons into Mexico from the U.S.  End of story!  Plus, if you ban the nebulously named “assault weapons” in the U.S., the Mexican drug cartel will just get them from somewhere else.  So, this is all about removing guns from the hands of Americans, not Mexicans!  With all the kidnappings here in the U.S., of Americans by Mexicans, you would think that the Federal Government would want its citizens to be able to protect themselves, but you would be wrong.  The Obama Administration doesn’t give a rat’s turd about protecting anyone except itself…]

“International drug trafficking organizations pose a sustained, serious threat to the safety and security of our communities,” Holder said. “As the world grows smaller and international criminals step up their efforts to operate inside our borders, the Department of Justice will confront them head on to keep our communities safe.”

He did not say when the Obama administration will move to reinstate the semi-auto weapons ban, which was signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton and allowed to expire in 2004 under President Bush.

Semi-automatics weapons, which fire once for each trigger pull, account for about 15 percent of the 250 million privately owned firearms in the U.S., according to the National Rifle Association.

The group notes that gun control groups invented the term “assault weapon”  to describe certain semi-automatic firearms which, although designed for civilian use, have certain cosmetic features that make them look like fully automatic assault rifles used by the military.

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