{"id":2799,"date":"2008-07-01T05:44:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T10:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2008-06-30T20:50:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T01:50:42","slug":"unintended-consequences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing about liberals; when the courts rule in their favor, they demand compliance, and to silence all opposition (see: Planned Parenthood protests).<\/p>\n

But let them lose a case, and their weaselling looks like one of those hapless schlubs on Cops<\/em>: “Officer, can you prove<\/em> that was me driving the car? Just seeing me alone in the car isn’t proof<\/em>…”.<\/p>\n

And the unintended consequences…well…<\/p>\n

Carnivore at TvM noticed this little bit:<\/p>\n

D.C. has decided that it will only register revolvers<\/a> and is refusing to register semi-automatic handguns, the type which millions of people find suitable for self-defense and in common use.<\/p>\n

So, the Ruger Mark II pistol chambered in .22LR, with 10 shot magazine is still banned.<\/p>\n

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But the Smith & Wesson 617 revolver in .22LR, with 10 shot cylinder is not banned.<\/p>\n

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The Smith & Wesson Model 500 revolver with massive .50 Caliber cartridge (Right) is OK.<\/p>\n

(Not to scale)<\/p>\n

But the Beretta 950 Tomcat chambered in marginal .32ACP with 7 shot magazine is still banned.<\/p>\n

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And lest you thought Carnivore wasn’t a real <\/em>gun geek – yes, he did peg the ultimate handgun trivia question:<\/p>\n

I wonder what the police manual says to do if someone tries to register a rare Webley-Fosbery<\/a> semi-automatic revolver.<\/p>\n

<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right – a semi-automatic revolver.<\/p>\n

(MINNESOROS MONITOR STAFFER: “You mean they’re not all <\/em>semi-automatic?”)<\/p>\n

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One thing about liberals; when the courts rule in their favor, they demand compliance, and to silence all opposition (see: Planned Parenthood protests). But let them lose a case, and their weaselling looks like one of those hapless schlubs on Cops: “Officer, can you prove that was me driving the car? Just seeing me alone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","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=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}