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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (534)	11/23/2004 8:23:28 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224779

In case you missed it, murder is already illegal. In addition, manufacturing a machine gun is also illegal. If SKS's were "banned", that would also be illegal, but you seem to think that an SKS ban law would suddenly be obeyed. That high capacity magazine no longer makes it an SKS either. Not only that if an SKS was "readily convertible" as you claim, the legal standard being convertible in less than 8 hours, then its a machine gun as-is and is ILLEGAL AS IS. Since the BATF allows people to own SKSs in the thousands and has SKS on the Curios and Relics lists, its clear that it IS NOT READILY CONVERTIBLE AS YOU FALSELY CLAIM. An SKS comes with a fixed magazine of 10 rounds. A stock SKS was never an assault weapon and was never a machine gun. The perpetrator says he was fired on first, so he is setting up a self defense case.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (534)	11/24/2004 12:33:05 AM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224779

Adding a 30 round magazine to an SKS, if the AWB was still in place, may have been illegally manufacturing an assault weapon. I've seen no evidence that this hunter modified his SKS or whether it was East European made, Russian Made or Chinese Made. I doubt if was Chinese Made. Oh and by the way, John Kerry said he owns an assault rifle--thats a machine gun, as all assault rifles are marchine guns and all assault weapons are not. Mr. Kerry's response to a question by Outdoor Life: "What is your favorite gun?" "My favorite gun is the M-16 that saved my life and that of my crew in Vietnam," said Mr. Kerry, a veteran, according to the October issue. "I don't own one of those now, but one of my reminders of my service is a Communist Chinese assault rifle."