{"id":34325,"date":"2013-02-19T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34325"},"modified":"2013-02-19T07:26:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:26:30","slug":"alice-hausmans-illiterate-obsession-weird-looking-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34325","title":{"rendered":"Alice Hausman’s Illiterate Obsession, Part III: Weird Looking Guns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next stop on our dissection of HF241 – Alice Hausman’s\u00a0gun grab bill focused on so-called “assault weapons”<\/a>\u00a0– is, I’ll be honest, mind-bogglingly obtuse.<\/p>\n

It would ban…:<\/p>\n

\u00a0(3) semi-automatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and\u00a0has one or more of the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

(i) any feature capable of functioning as a protruding grip that can be held by the\u00a0nontrigger hand;<\/span><\/p>\n

(ii) a folding, telescoping, or thumbhole stock;<\/p>\n

(iii) a shroud attached to the barrel, or that partially or completely encircles the\u00a0barrel, allowing the bearer to hold the firearm with the nontrigger hand without being\u00a0<\/span>burned, but excluding a slide that encloses the barrel; or<\/span><\/p>\n

(iv) the capacity to accept a detachable magazine at any location outside of the\u00a0pistol grip;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is aimed at the various semi-automatic pistols that have been teased into a vaguely military-looking appearance, like the “Uzi Pistol”<\/p>\n

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…which are, literally, pistols with little collapsible stocks on them. \u00a0They are mostly famous for appearing in movies in the hands of gang-bangers, which is no doubt why Heather Martens<\/del>\u00a0some DFL staffer added them to the bill.<\/p>\n

But it also includes our old friend the Mauser C96…:<\/p>\n

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…which\u00a0can\u00a0<\/em>add a stock to make it a light carbine (for horse-mounted troops in the 1800s), and is a big collectible. \u00a0 No, I had a friend who owned one. \u00a0It’s not that far-out.<\/p>\n

(I didn’t forget the Browning HP35…<\/p>\n

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…which the DFL staff and\/or Heather Martens didn’t think about, apparently because it’s\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>appeared in any gang-banger movies or TV shows, but also has a 13 round magazine, so the DFL will want to ban it anyway…)<\/p>\n

Later today: \u00a0Yes, this bill gets dumber still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next stop on our dissection of HF241 – Alice Hausman’s\u00a0gun grab bill focused on so-called “assault weapons”\u00a0– is, I’ll be honest, mind-bogglingly obtuse. It would ban…: \u00a0(3) semi-automatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and\u00a0has one or more of the following: (i) any feature capable of functioning as a protruding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34325","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=34325"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34380,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34325\/revisions\/34380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}