I’d like to address a quick question. Am I ranting? Yeah. Is it about the truth? I think so. Is this all about guns? Well, I also have a pretty good recipe for chocolate chip cookies and some great crème brule. I’m not a gun nut. I’m a human being concerned about my country.
There’s one aspect of the proposed bans that no one has considered. Money. Specifically tax money.
Over 2/3 of the so call “assault weapons” are purchased by lawful gun owners. We, therefore, subsidize the police and military. Now the military purchase fully automatic rifles, but even this is supported by us. So the prices are going to go up. A lot. And an even larger portion of high cap magazines are purchased that way. The Federal government purchased so much .40 S&W ammo in the previous few years that there was actually a shortage as other manufacturers covered the demand on the contracted companies.
Consider. The US Army (primary purchaser) ordered approximately 60,000 M4 (full auto) carbines at $1100 each ($66M). About 15,000 AR-15 pattern rifles and carbines (auto and semi-auto) were purchased by law enforcement organizations nationally for prices between $1200 and $2000 each (let’s call it $20M). A total of around $86M. Nationally civilian purchases for these semi auto rifles (civilians can’t buy a new full auto firearm of any kind) bought about 500,000 AR pattern rifles at between $900 and $1200 each ($450M). That comes out to $7.50 of civilian purchases for ever dollar of military and law enforcement purchases. Now not all of the civilian purchases subsidize the Mil and LEO purchases, but I’m willing to bet that it’s over $6.60. So now that $20M becomes over $110M. But that’s okay, the Feds pay for part of the LEO costs. WAIT!!!! Who gives “the Feds” that money? Did you say “I do”? And where does the Army get its money?
We’re going to ignore the number of companies that would go out of business which would result in how many unemployed workers. And remember, like the car industry, the company that assembles the rifles doesn’t make all of the parts. Somebody makes the gas blocks, somebody makes the butt stocks, and somebody makes the slings. The gas block is part of the rifle that turns some of the exhaust and makes the gun load the next round. There are a number of replacement parts out there that allow the owner to customize his rifle. The same goes with the other parts. These people become “new filers for unemployment”.
But as long as it saves only one life. Regardless of how many it ruins.
The truth gun banners don't like 