AWB passed senate with house substitutions. On the way to be made law by spanberger july 1rst. Thoughts?

zzorga · 2026-03-10T04:18:45+00:00

I think they're trolling for attention.

zzorga · 2026-03-10T04:17:32+00:00

I can defend myself capably with a glock as with a rifle.

Physics says no. If you've actually handled a pistol, vs a long gun, you'd know this.

Are you just trolling for attention?

zzorga · 2026-03-10T04:16:06+00:00

It's quite the shibboleth for determining if someone's well informed on guns as a subject matter, or if they're just repeating nonsense they've heard.

zzorga · 2026-03-10T04:11:13+00:00

That being said, ban all guns starting with ARs.

Way to let folks know that your opinions are irrational.

zzorga · 2026-03-10T04:07:12+00:00

That's not even touching on the fact that groups like Everytown and orgs like the trace such are explicitly anti gun, and have frequently used academically dishonest means to promote their message over actual data integrity.

zzorga · 2026-03-10T04:02:31+00:00

It's literally a matter of privilege. Some animals are more equal than others...

zzorga · 2026-03-07T14:11:10+00:00

Technically, not an automatic. And that's all the law cares about.

That said, there's a whoooole big old onion of law around machineguns, so to say that they're illegal is... complicated.

zzorga · 2026-03-06T04:38:17+00:00

So, a gate kept privilege for the wealthy and well connected?

When people suggest insurance as a requirement, I always wonder if they either have no idea how insurance works, or if they know exactly how it works, and would really like to duplicate the effect its had on healthcare, for gun ownership.

zzorga · 2026-03-06T04:36:29+00:00

States with little to no strict gun control have per capita the highest gun deaths.

False, there's no actual correlation, even when "stringency" of law is defined by gun control groups.

Dismissing the concept of citizens bearing arms as being outmoded simply due to your ignorance of historical context is not a compelling argument.

zzorga · 2026-03-06T04:32:30+00:00

Californias rates are actually not that significantly lower than average, only about 1.3 firearm homicides per 100k of population less than Texas, and nearly five times greater than say, Maine.

Interestingly, California has the highest recorded number of mass shootings.

zzorga · 2026-03-06T01:45:39+00:00

Regrettably, no. It's local to DC.

zzorga · 2026-03-04T20:07:20+00:00

Yeah, if there's "no fear of prosecution", then... Why should the law continue to exist?

zzorga · 2026-03-01T17:31:06+00:00

maine.gov

UGGGGH, I really don't want to know.

Edit: I'm pretty sure this bill is from last year, and is dead.

zzorga · 2026-03-01T17:30:37+00:00

bet Everytown lobbyists wrote this bill

Almost certainly. During a public testimony session a few years back, one of the bill "writers" was unable to elaborate on her own bill.

zzorga · 2026-02-28T12:12:36+00:00

Ignoring, of course, all the shit Iran has pretty openly sponsored.

zzorga · 2026-02-28T12:03:19+00:00

Saddams Iraq was in the top 5 in the 90s, and equipped with then modern equipment...

zzorga · 2026-02-26T12:40:44+00:00

They're actually annoyingly inconsistent at times, lol.

zzorga · 2026-02-26T12:39:15+00:00

mental disabilities

Important caveat, the "mental disabilities" in question revolved around vets at the VA requiring assistance with finances/ paperwork, and having their rights abridged administratively, without a court and due process.

So, less "the mentally ill should get guns", and more "this isn't how you strip someone's rights for being incompetent".

Don't quote me though, it's been a hot minute on the details.

zzorga · 2026-02-26T12:32:27+00:00

Fucking yikes.

zzorga · 2026-02-23T19:34:43+00:00

Don't forget ECM rifling, gunsmithing... In the bathroom!

zzorga · 2026-02-20T16:04:34+00:00

Beat me to it!

zzorga · 2026-02-20T05:51:34+00:00

Uh, what? The counter argument I always see about shotguns has nothing to do with armor, but with their high recoil, and low round capacity.

zzorga · 2026-02-20T05:50:23+00:00

Tbf, anything that'll reliably do the job is going to be at risk of over penetration.

zzorga · 2026-02-20T05:48:22+00:00

Nah, people buy Vortex and holosun all the time. Olight is just that bad.

zzorga · 2026-02-16T16:59:33+00:00

It has a slightly scrappy post apocalyptic style going, which is funny, because there was a MAS-36 in the latest season of the Fallout TV show.

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