Lies and half-truths is all that we seem to be getting from the government these days. The latest lie is that military-style guns have no legitimate purpose in the hands of civilians. Of course the media is in on it. The government can’t really do anything without the media. The media is the machine that carries the lies out to the uneducated masses.
There has been a lot of debate about these weapons and a lot of terms being used, inappropriately, by both sides. So I am not going to go into the detailed operation of each firearm type and the proper nomenclature, except for one. The term “assault weapon” was high jacked by the government and gun control crowd, from the term “assault rifle” which is used to describe a military firearm capable of “selective fire.”
An “assault rifle” is a firearm that could be used in two different ways. It is a combination rifle; one that is suitable for a rifleman or infantry in one mode and also suitable for storming an occupied position where rapid fire of multiple rounds is necessary to subdue the enemy.
Since these terms are very similar, the media gets it wrong most of the time and that is why the government likes it so much. Now that it is an accepted term, to describe any military-looking weapon or “scary” weapons, the gun grabbers are now saying that no one needs these weapons for self-defense, and they are not very good for self-defense, and we should ban them.
If you look at an M16 military assault rifle, there is a three-position switch on the side of the receiver. It has positions for Safe, Semi, and Auto. This is a selective fire weapon. Semi mode is for the rifleman who is picking out targets at range to efficiently fire rounds hitting targets. Auto mode is for assaulting multiple targets that are in close quarters or massed together and laying down suppressive fire. Suppressive fire is just that, keeping the enemy’s heads down by shooting at them so your men can move from one position to another without getting hit. These selective fire weapons are not available to the public without stringent and specific licenses. All civilian models do not have, nor can they be converted without extensive knowledge, to selective fire.
If you have followed the terminology so far, and understand that the combination of an assault weapon or submachine gun was a fully automatic firearm and a rifleman’s rifle was an auto-loading rifle designed for accuracy, together in one firearm coined the term “assault rifle.” The liberals highjacked the “assault weapon” term and are now using it to describe neither of these firearm types.
To further compound the lie, the government does not use any of these terms when procuring weapons for its own use. They are called Personal Defense Weapons or (PDW) which is the term describing a selective fire weapon in a government procurement request. Additionally, “DHS and its components have a requirement for a 5.56x45mm NATO, select-fire firearm suitable for personal defense use in close quarters and/or when maximum concealment is required.”
So the government on one hand is telling us that these weapons are not suitable for personal defense and on the other hand it is saying that they are. By the way they want to buy 7,000 of them for Border patrol, ICE, and FPS agents.
Honey mixed with poison, America: The government is mixing lies and half-truths to disarm Americans.
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Along with their lies and misleading, here’s the story the leftist puppets in the lame steam media propaganda machine never tell the gullibles in their audinces:
According to the statistics gathered, but hidden, by their beloved government, guns are used by law-abiding citizens in justifiable self-defense (to stop or prevent a crime) about 2.5 million times per year in the US.
In the vast majority of cases, no shots are fired. The mere display of the means of self-defense prompts the criminal to turn tail and run.
In the minority of cases where shots are fired, those citizens kill several times more criminals per year than the police.
Despite the fact that citizens shoot and kill significantly more criminals than the police, you are approximately 5.5 times MORE likely to be accidentally/mistakenly shot by the police than by a citizen defending himself (unless, of course, you are actually the criminal).
Lawful use of guns saves FAR more lives each year than the unlawful use of guns by criminals and psychopaths.
Every state that has enacted “shall issue” concealed carry laws, which allow citizens to carry after passing a background check, has seen crime in general, and violent crime in particular, drop dramatically.
Places with the most prohibitions on self-defense (Chicago, LA, DC, etc.) have FAR more violent crime than areas where it’s known that citizens have the right to self-defense and the means to enforce that right.
Those are the IRREFUTABLE FACTS that the government and its media propaganda machine don’t want the public to know.
I saw a move once where only the police and military had guns … It was called SCHINDLER’S LIST.
This exactly what Obama wants to bring us. Unarmed and unable to defend ourselves against the tyranny of this administration… None of the news media know the correct description of an aasault weapon. This is a subject you cannot change in their minds and want us disarmed…..
Folks, NBC, ABC and CBS came clean on Sunday January 27, 2013 and admitted that the Bushmaster was not used in the mass murder at Sandy Hook school, the Bushmaster was at the school but it was safely locked in the truck of Adam’s mother’s car. All of the murders were committed by four (4) handguns and the Administration and the police, including all of the government agencies were fully aware of that, including the medical examiner.
Our country is in deep trouble if it takes six weeks for the truth to come out, about the weapons that were used, and the ones that were not used, in the mean time, nut cases like Senator Diane Feinstein, and Governor Andrew Cumo, and Obama all overreacted and jumped to incorrect conclusions, and honest law abiding citizen’s well end up suffering for inaccurate and incorrect information.
If you remember Obama also jumped to the wrong conclusion and he had to arrange a beer summit as his way of apologizing for having overreacted. He does have a tendency of going off half cocked, then again, what else would anyone expect from a Community Organizer that stole the White House with the help of his Propaganda Minister David Axelrod.
I don’t think it matters any more, Gabor, the damage is done. The mush heads have bought the deliberate untruth – LIE – about an “Assault Rifle” being the murder weapon. That is all they see now.
But what IS an Assault Rifle? The US military defines it in part as an automatic weapon with a large capacity magazine. The Feinsteinians are all in a panic about the appearance of the AR-15. Holey, Kneesox! It has a bayonet lug! Oh, the horror the magazine curves! Scarey! Scarey!
Well, I for one am sick of being called a child killer because I own a weapon which was NOT used at Sandy Hook. Whenever anyone makes that assertion I point at them and say, forcefully, DRUNK DRIVER! CHILD KILLER!
The reaction is the same. Who, me? I never!
But you must! You own a car and drive it so you must get drunk and kill people in accidents.
You own tools? Then you crush skulls with hammers! No excuse! You’re guilty!
Even that doesn’t sway most of them. They’re that far gone! Absolutely brain-washed.
Please supply a link to support the claim. (I’d love to see it confirmed. I simply don’t want to see any misinformation spread. We get way too much of that from the media and the politicians.)
The Government lies about everything, the Obama Communist Government is only interested in disarming we the people so that Obama’s Army of Gang Bangers, Union thugs and Muslims can come into our lives and with the threat of death take over and make us slaves to Obama.
I trained my troops on the m-16, did not do so well in Nam until it was modified to shoot auto three round burst…..the homeland security recently ordered 7000 fully auto rifles…why? To go with the 170 millions rounds of ammo. they are now receiving…….I would like to advise Obama and frankinstien that simi auto wepons uses a magazine…..not magazine clips….that is just how smart they are, don’t know the difference between a clip and a magazine……ya know paper clip, football clip..two things you can use a magazine is to load a weapon….
These so-called assault weapons they speak of aren’t the ones that are responsible for so many homicides every year. They just don’t want you to have them, just in case Obama declares war on the American people, as he has almost already.
Thank you all for the information on the weapons. It is always nice to know exactly what they are referring to. I could not imagine anyone using a full automatic weapon for even target practice, unless in a war situation. Why would the government and news keep insisting a Bush Master was used in the school shooting, other than to make it seem worse than it was, which in their pea brains was a stronger excuse to try for nation wide gun confiscation. What weapon used could not make the shooting of children any worse or more horrible than it is. I knew China was insisting on a confiscation of weapons in the US, but did not realize at the time that Obama has used American properties and the slave labor of the people to cover the trillions they have loaned him. They want us unarmed because they are afraid of armed Americans, and are smart to be afraid. I do not know about anyone else, but I do not feel obligated for Obama’s deals he made to build Internment Camps to force us into. Congress and the White House is trying to blame citizens on Social Security and welfare for the national debt being so high, but I am not fool enough not to see that he has spent billions and billions to build those internment camps, lay new railroad tracks, build gas furnaces large enough for 100s of people, and train and maintain his in country personal black military force. My father was of the Greatest Generation and faught Hitler, he made sure we knew what to expect and look for, to make sure a Holocaust did not happen here. He never ever thought it would happen here, in the greatest nation in the world, but made sure we knew what to look for. I have lived FREE for 69 years and am not going to die in a concentration camp. I will die with a weapon in my hand taking some of them with me. Anyone that thinks this is not happening, just go to YouTube and watch the video’s from Jessie Ventura. When you see them, you will know they are for real, there is so much involved and hugh they could not be faked. We are in for the war of our lives, unless we follow God’s word in 2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear them in heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” God is greatly angered at America for the abortions, same sex marriages, practice of Chrislam (chruches replacing God with Allah), teaching Allah is God in our schools and many other things put in place by Obama and He is going to punish us all, unless His people turn back to Him, get on their knees humbly and ask forgiveness.
I believe you are right, karol424. I think God is fed up with America — our killing unborn children by the millions every year, embracing fornication, homosexuality and same-sex marriage, pushing Him out of our schools, courts, government, homes, etc. and embracing Islam, a false religion. I believe that we are living in the end times and in the time of the coming of the Anti-Chirst. And Obozo is paving the way for his take over of the world. America staying a free country will stand in the way of the One World Government of the Anti-Christ. That’s why obozo is trying to enslave America.
Christian: Just to remind you. obummer IS the anti-Christ, as well as impostor-fraud-closet-saboteur-muslime-public enemy #1-in-cheef occupying OUR White House. OUR Country (it is NOT obummers) is in decline EVERY day that obummer is in the dictatorial power with his thug BADministration regime voted-in twice in rigged “elections” by the mezmerized walking dead fools who will be the loudest whiners about how their wallets are being stripped-bare by obummer. Tango Sierra ! But unfortunately, the conservatives are having their wallets robbed along-with the fools.
First off I didn’t vote for Obama, but even prior to his election he has been called, accused of, tagged with, etc. about every negative title one can think of, Lol…. It “seems” there are many Christians that post here at WCJ, or at least many that put forth that idea. I have seen where these same folks are regulating people to hell, damning them (in another forum, a person pronounced Obama as “Anathema”…), and the various everyday accusations, many of which are plain …um… ridiculous, i.e. “Bravo Sierra” as in BS ! You can bet whatever it is you and the others that think likewise have, that the Anti-Christ would not tip his hand so very easily. It is said that he will deceive the VERY ELECT ! For one thing,Israel, is not infatuated with Obama in any way. What I’m saying boils down to a word to fellow Christians…. Be careful how you label. No one knows the Anti-Christ yet, and please remember that many have come before that have been labeled as such too, and they are long gone now.
Hello Karol424 ! Thanks for your post ! Agree with you wholeheartedly “with the exceptions of a couple areas”, But I agree with you on your quote from 2nd Chronicles. In your post you stated “train and maintain his in country personal black military force”…. Do you have anything to support this ????
Once again, thank you !