{"id":12713,"date":"2010-08-17T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2010-08-17T07:35:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:35:44","slug":"chanting-points-memo-sixgun-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12713","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: Sixgun Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

In \u00a0a debate at “Game Fair”\u00a0over the weekend\u00a0– a firearm-friendly venue if there ever was one – Tom Emmer pressed Mark Dayton on his record on gun issues.<\/p>\n

And perhaps it’s a good thing that we’ve come to the point that Mark Dayton, as extreme a liberal as exists in Minnesota, someone so far to the left that Margaret Anderson Kelliher felt the need to triangulate to his right during the primary, felt the need to go all tactical on the audience:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have two loaded .357 Magnum pistols in my home right now in a lock box,\u201d DFL candidate Mark Dayton told a crowd gathered Saturday at Game Fair, a hunting and fishing expo in Anoka. \u201cI have a 9mm pistol at home. I have a twelve-gauge shotgun at home.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Battle won, right?<\/p>\n

Gary Gross at LFR says “not so fast<\/a>“; I’ll add emphasis:<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Sen. Dayton\u2019s response:<\/p>\n

Mark Dayton: Well, I had a D rating from the NRA in 1982 when I ran for the Senate. I had a two- an A rating in 2000. There were two principal votes you can look em up when I was a Senator. One was banning Cop Killer bullets<\/strong>. And one reason that I have the endorsement of the Minneapolis Police and Peace Officers Association, Representative, is because I respect the law enforcement men and women. I was on a ride-along last week to, as I\u2019ve been several times with a police officer in St. Paul. And those guys wear bulletproof vests every time they go out there. Men and women. And anybody who wants to go out there and see them put their lives on the line to protect us.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What, you want to kill cops?<\/p>\n

Except – as Gary found – the “Cop Killer Bullet” bill was anything but (I’ll add emphasis):<\/p>\n

SEC. 5. ARMOR PIERCING AMMUNITION.<\/p>\n

(a) EXPANSION OF DEFINITION OF ARMOR PIERCING AMMUNITION.–Section 921(a)(17)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is amended–<\/p>\n

(1) in clause (i), by striking “or” at the end;<\/p>\n

(2) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and<\/p>\n

(3) by adding at the end the following:<\/p>\n

“(iii) a projectile that may be used in a handgun and that the Attorney General determines<\/strong>, under section 926(d), to be capable of penetrating body armor;<\/strong> or<\/p>\n

“(iv) a projectile for a center-fire rifle, designed or marketed as having armor piercing capability, that the Attorney General determines, under section 926(d), to be more likely to penetrate body armor<\/strong> than standard ammunition of the same caliber.”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the “Cop Killer Bullet” bill – written by Ted Kennedy – would have given the Attorney General the power to determine, more or less by fiat, exactly what constituted a “cop-killer” bullet.<\/p>\n

Which means they start with the boogeymen rounds – the so-called “Teflon” bullets – and the next day \u00a0they’ll be noting, correctly, that metal-jacketed hardball rounds penetrate more than plain unjacketed lead or wadcutters.<\/p>\n

It also means that the Attorney General – or more likely his employees in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – could make sweeping rulings about ammunition availability and legality by whim and fiat, creating new classes of criminals at will with a stroke of the pen.<\/p>\n

Mark Dayton – for a more bureaucratic world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In \u00a0a debate at “Game Fair”\u00a0over the weekend\u00a0– a firearm-friendly venue if there ever was one – Tom Emmer pressed Mark Dayton on his record on gun issues. And perhaps it’s a good thing that we’ve come to the point that Mark Dayton, as extreme a liberal as exists in Minnesota, someone so far to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12718,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions\/12718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}