Semi-Auto Problem | The Zelman Partisans

The Machine Gun Nest has pieced together all the elements of a potential semiautomatic rifle ban in 2021. They have discovered the dangerous precedent of allowing the ATF to redefine words to make inanimate bits of plastic into machineguns, paperweights into firearms, and pistols into rifles. Why, all this adds up to making semiautos into machineguns because they’re easily converted.

“What’s going on with gun control right now in 2021?
There’s been much talk at the range recently about the new proposed gun control by the Biden Administration. Many people are perplexed. We get a ton of questions, emails, and phone calls asking, “Will this affect me?”, “What can I do?”, “Why are they doing this?” among others.
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So, where does this all come together?

It’s obvious when you look at what’s happened and what’s been proposed where the Biden admin is headed for gun control. They are testing the waters right now with these two proposed rule changes, but I guarantee this is not the end. These current ideas have been taken right from the David Chipman “Legal and Lethal” playbook. There’s a part where Chipman writes this about semi-automatic rifles

Well, no sh-t, Sherlock. TZP has been warning about this specifically for nearly fours years. We warned about this before the ATF even proposed the bump-fire stock machinegun rule.

We warned you again two years ago, when that very “easily converted” argument was made in court. We warened you repeatedly.

We warned you in 2018 that easily converted to a higher rate of fire would define “machinegun.”

And again, two weeks ago.

“What’s going on in 2021” maybe wouldn’t have been such a problem if more people had paid attention to what was going on in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. More attention than ridiculing those of us warning about “Bump Stock Hill” anyway.

Speaking only for myself as an individual: There have been many days in recent years when I seriously questioned why I bother with trying to raise awareness of these dangers. This is one of those days. My work seems pretty pointless.

Parkland “survivor” Hogglet needs his 15-minute-fame fix again.

David Hogg suggests compromise on gun control
“If this plan ends up in Congress, and they say a gun registry is a nonstarter or the assault weapons ban and mandatory gun buy back program are nonstarters, OK. Then maybe we start talking about reclassifying them and making sure you have the right permitting in place where you can still go and use them,” Hogg continued. “But people aren’t going to have nearly as easy accessibility to them to go and commit mass shootings as they are currently.”

Reclassifying semiautomatic firearms as NFA machineguns is registry, dumbass.

And that’s no compromise.

compromise [ kom-pruh-mahyz ]
noun
a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.

Hogglet’s “compromise” offers nothing to human rights-respecting gun owners in exchange for giving up or registering tens to hundreds of millions of firearms. Allowing people to beg permission, pay a $200 bribe, and register to keep their property is not compromise.

Offer to give us something.

And listen when we say, “No.”

“Or else“.

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