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Some nice info on "Assault Weapons."

Posted January 21st, 2013 at 06:38 AM by CarcharOdin (CarcharOdin's Blog of Stuff About Stuff Involving Stuff That Has to Do With Stuff)
Updated January 21st, 2013 at 06:51 AM by CarcharOdin

Tags guns, politics

"Prior to 1989, the term "assault weapon" did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of 'assault rifles'."

- Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, Stanford Law and Policy Review

More information here:
http://www.assaultweapon.info/

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A Conversation on Gun Control with a European Immigrant

Posted January 16th, 2013 at 12:53 AM by CarcharOdin (CarcharOdin's Blog of Stuff About Stuff Involving Stuff That Has to Do With Stuff)

Tags discussion, guns, politics, violence

I was a little iffy to post this in the forums, so I decided to post it here in my blog.

A conversation I had today with a friend of mine who immigrated from the UK to the United States, so as to get a little bit of a European output on the Second Amendment, on Gun Control, and gun violence and whatnot. For privacy reasons, I'll refer to him as "Euro" in this post.

Quote:

C.Odin: Hey, [Euro] , got a question for you.

Euro: Sure!

C.Odin:

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CarcharOdin

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