Lucian K. Truscott (the IVth, no less) is an effing moron. This was in Salon, so I’m not going to link to it and give them traffic. If you want to see it, search the headline:
Youuuuu might be a gun nut if . . .
Woe be unto the innocent bystander, or even the less-than-innocent liberal wuss Salon columnist, if you raise your hand and say something . . . anything . . . about guns and gun ownership. Boy, are the gun nuts ever ready for you!
Especially if your column is chock full of false statements.
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- “The first thing they accuse you of is wanting to ban guns, all guns.”
No. We save that for the multitude who do call for bans. Like Duke Nukem Swalwell or Alison Airies or Dianne Feinstein or all of these.Or… Lucian K. Truscott IV:- “New Zealand came to its senses and banned them. When will we?”
- “Ban the sale of gas operated weapons.”
- “I mean, look at the reaction of the NRA to something as sane as the recent ban on bump stocks”
Reaction to the ban? The VNRA came up with the idea. Their “reaction” was to their members’ reaction to the ATF actually doing what the VNRA called for. - “it’s an utterly defensible ban on a device that converts a legal gun into an illegal weapon of mass destruction.”
WTF? Even the lunatics at the ATF never claimed that. Do you know what a weapon of mass destruction is? - “If you listen to the NRA, you would think that banning bump-stocks is the first step on a slippery slope to disarming America.”
Or if you listen to Pelosi, who hopes it is. Or the Parkland Pussies. - “I was raised to understand that guns are designed and manufactured to kill. I was trained in the Army on multiple guns, and I was trained to use them to kill.”
Oh yes; let’s talk about Truscott’s military experience:Truscott attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1969. […] He was threatened with being sent to Vietnam, so he resigned his commission about thirteen months after graduating, receiving a “general discharge under other than honorable conditions.”
Lots of relevant military experience there, huh? Here is more detail if you want it. Charge: “Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.”
- “The first thing they accuse you of is wanting to ban guns, all guns.”
- “The shooter in Las Vegas had bump stocks on nearly all of the 24 guns that were found in his room”
14 of 24 firearms were equipped with bump-fire stocks. However, no state or federal report on the incident has said bump-fire was used. - “Then they go after you for mis-using, or mis-interpreting gun language.”
Yes. Because terminology matters. If you get it wrong, you confuse semi-auto AR-15s with military assault rifles, or cars for main battle tanks. Or, like McCarthy, you file a bill to ban the wrong item because you didn’t know the correct word. - “Define an “assault weapon!” AR-15 style rifles aren’t “assault weapons” because they don’t have “select fire.””
No, dumbass. “Assault weapon” is a political term used to confuse the ignorant. An assault rifle is the select-fire weapon. Assault rifles are used by virtually every army in the world. No nation generally issues semi-autos to its regular troops. - “It is, of course, sold on the open market to any civilian who walks in with the scratch to buy one.”
Not quite. It’s sold to anyone with the cash, who passes a background check. And the particular pistol pictured has a suppressor, which is an NFA item requiring a tax, and federal permission to possess, which is another background check. - “a .177 bolt action rifle my brother gave me.”
Got me there. Could you be more specific? I don’t know of any firearm chambered in .177. Is that actually an air rifle? Or, perhaps, it’s .17 HMR. - “I was raised to understand that guns are designed and manufactured to kill.”
You were raised wrongly. Firearms are designed to propel a projectile at a target. Intent is in the mind of the user. A soldier is trained to kill the enemy. A kid plinking at cans has the intent of knocking them over, not killing. - “Guns like the assault rifles used by the Las Vegas shooter”
According the the final investigative report, he used semi-auto rifles, a bolt-action rifle, and a revolver. None were assault rifles. - “or the shooter in Parkland”
No assault rifles there either. Semi-auto with 10-round magazines. - “Sandy Hook”
Nope. - “Pittsburgh”
Wrong again. Semi-auto rifle and three semi-auto pistols. - “New Zealand”
No. Semi-auto rifles and shotguns. You aren’t very good at this.
I’m a bit puzzled by this statement. Perhaps someone familiar with Vietnam-era Army policies can explain it.
“The last one [semi-auto] I shot was an M-14 in the Army in 1965.”
That would seem to have been his first year at West Point. I would have thought that there’d be a little more rifle training during the four years, and certainly I’d have expected him to qualify once on active duty. Did they not trust him with firearms?
Hey, let’s look at another Truscott column:
Assault rifles are insane: New Zealand came to its senses and banned them. When will we?
Oh, I can hear them now. The NRA and its ilk will tell you that this military-style assault rifle is just the thing to use hunting deer, or elk, or some other poor creature. But it’s really a killing machine, a thing you can buy that is designed for one purpose: to kill a “soft target” from up to a mile away. That is insane.
He’s ranting about the Victrix Armaments Scorpio, which he thinks is “a rifle very similar to “ the “POF USA P-308 AR 10.”
The Scorpio is a bolt-action rifle. Just like his grandmother’s heirloom .22. Standard 5-round capacity; probably less than his .22, or his revolvers.
Oh, well. His market has always been anti-rights lefties, so I guess he’ll continue to play well there. Not so much in the real world where people take time educate themselves. I expect you could slip a drive belt around his grandfather’s rotating body and power a small city.
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