{"id":34326,"date":"2013-02-19T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34326"},"modified":"2013-02-19T07:22:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:22:04","slug":"alice-hausmans-illiterate-obsession-they-sure-sound-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34326","title":{"rendered":"Alice Hausman’s Illiterate Obsession, Part IV: They Sure Sound Scary!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alice Hausman’s\u00a0gun grab bill focused on so-called “assault weapons”<\/a>\u00a0– now turns to shotguns.<\/p>\n

Shotguns are a fearsome weapon, close-in – deadlier than assault rifles in some cases; British special forces have long used the Benelli semi-automatic hunting shotgun as their favorite weapon in the jungle.<\/p>\n

But this part of Hausman’s bill is no less\u00a0bizarre\u00a0and ill-informed than the rest of it; it’d ban any…:<\/p>\n

3.16(4) semi-automatic shotgun that has one or more of the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

(i) a pistol grip or thumbhole stock;<\/p>\n

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

(iii) a folding or telescoping stock;<\/p>\n

(iv) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of seven rounds; or<\/p>\n

(v) an ability to accept a detachable magazine;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s aimed, seemingly, at weapons like the Russian-built Saiga…:<\/p>\n

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…which is basically a 12-gauge semi-automatic AK47.<\/p>\n

But the Mossberg 930 \u00a0– it’s semi-automatic, and holds eight rounds…:<\/p>\n

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…is also covered.<\/p>\n

In the meantime? \u00a0It doesn’t cover pump-action shotguns with all the same goodies…:<\/p>\n

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…which are almost exactly as deadly. \u00a0But “pump” sounds quaint, while “semi-automatic” sounds, if you’re a DFL staffer or (who are we kidding) Heather Martens, vaguely evil.<\/p>\n

I keep saying “it gets dumber”. \u00a0Because it does. \u00a0Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice Hausman’s\u00a0gun grab bill focused on so-called “assault weapons”\u00a0– now turns to shotguns. Shotguns are a fearsome weapon, close-in – deadlier than assault rifles in some cases; British special forces have long used the Benelli semi-automatic hunting shotgun as their favorite weapon in the jungle. But this part of Hausman’s bill is no less\u00a0bizarre\u00a0and ill-informed […]<\/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-34326","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\/34326","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=34326"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34338,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions\/34338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}