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Dec 20, 2012 - 02:54 PM
Editor, Index-Tribune:
Tonight I sent this email to my financial advisor: “Please remove from my investment portfolio any companies that sell, produce or in any way are associated with assault rifles.”
Mary Jane Pace
Park City, Utah
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What is an “assault weapon”?
What does “assault weapon” mean?
Actually the words assault weapon are a bogeyman created by misinformed individuals who know little or nothing about the differences between military fully automatic and civilian simi-automatic firearms. Some civilian simi-automatic rifles look like the military fully automatic rifles. These simi-automatic may have pistol grips, folding stocks, shorter but legal barrels and detachable magazines. I agree that they are scary looking.
A Simi-automatic firearm can be a rifle a shotgun or a handgun. After being loaded a simi-automatic fires one bullet with one trigger squeeze. It then automatically ejects the spent brass and loads a live round into the firing chamber. These are not “assault weapons”.
A fully automatic weapon will fire all of the rounds loaded into it with one trigger squeeze until they are all spent. I would agree that these are rightly named “assault weapons”. These weapons are illegal to be owned by civilians under federal statutes.
The day after the Sandy Hook shootings, I renewed my NRA membership. Neither of our actions will stop mentally ill human beings from making a choice to murder innocents, with any weapon of choice.