My Jaw Has Dropped

Over at Limpidity, we find what the gun-banners really have in their blackened hearts. To quote from the blog

Well the first Maryland assault weapons bill of the year is in committee. This is a fun one too. It is entitled “Assault Weapons Criminal Penalty Enhancement Act of 2005”. After reading through this little bill it is not about penalty at all, it is really is all about creating a list. But first lets get on to the meat of the text.

“AN ACT concerning
Assault Weapons Criminal Penalty Enhancement Act of 2005

FOR the purpose of designating certain firearms as assault weapons; designating assault rifles and copycat weapons as types of assault weapons; making it a misdemeanor to use an assault rifle or a copycat weapon in the commission of a felony or a crime of violence; providing certain penalties; defining certain terms; providing for the effective date of this Act; and generally relating to assault weapons.”

Now for a bit of fisking on this little gem.

“FOR the purpose of designating certain firearms as assault weapons”

Maryland legislators are famous for making lists. They then go on to use these lists to make it hard to get things.

Here is an example of said lists. In order for the sales of a handgun in the state of Maryland it must be on an approved list, that is approved by an arbitrary panel over at the state police HQ. If it is not on this list you can’t get it in Maryland. They did the same thing with the integral firearm locks in MD (and are currently being sued) by not approving new types of locks. This did a very nice job of banning new guns in MD for the last 3 years. Now many manufactures include the integrated (you can open most of them with a bent piece of wire) locks which not many use.

“designating assault rifles and copycat weapons as types of assault weapons”

“copycat” Wow they have gotten this one strait (sic) out of the anti gun lobbies press releases. You see, this one would allow the list to encompass everything that they see as “Bad and Evil” by saying, it looks a little like one; there for it is one. They are trying to take a piece of failed legislation (the federal assault weapons ban) a step farther than they did last time.

And now on to my favorite part of this piece of legislation.

“making it a misdemeanor to use an assault rifle or a copycat weapon in the commission of a felony or a crime of violence”

Misdemeanor? I repeat Misdemeanor? This is the portion of the legislation that proves; they really are not serious about stopping crime, but are all about creating a “list”.

OK, I borrowed a whole bunch, but it was worth it. That way, I don't have to write anything. There's more, go read it. Now I'm off to deal with our own stupid AWB. Will this crap ever end?

[Hat tip: geekwitha.45]