"Senate Dems introduce 'assault weapons' ban bill on 205 gun models"

[yagotme]

51. Need to brush up on firearm history:

"It's hard to shoot that many people with a bolt action rifle or a revolver."

4 people? Ever hear of the "Mad Minute Drill"?

"The Mad Minute was a pre-World War I bolt-action rifle speed shooting exercise used by British Army riflemen, using the Lee–Enfield service rifle. The exercise formally known as "Practice number 22, Rapid Fire, The Musketry Regulations, Part I, 1909", required the rifleman to fire 15 rounds at a "Second Class Figure" target at 300 yd. The practice was described as; "Lying. Rifle to be loaded and 4 rounds in the magazine before the target appears. Loading to be from the pouch or bandolier by 5 rounds afterwards. One minute allowed". The practice was only one of the exercises from the annual classification shoot which was used to grade a soldier as a marksman, first-class or second-class shot, depending on the scores he had achieved. The rapid aimed fire of the ‘Mad Minute’ was accomplished by using a 'palming' method where the rifleman used the palm of his hand to work the bolt, and not his thumb and forefinger, while maintaining his cheek weld and line of sight."

Enfield: Bolt action. 60 seconds. 15 hits for qualifying. First using this on the Western Front, the Germans thought the Brits had massed machine guns.

Revolver: 5 to 9 round capacity, can be reloaded with a speed loader/moon clip rather quickly, and double action is comparable to semi auto. See: Jerry Miculek.

"Jerry Charles Miculek Jr. is an American professional speed and competition shooter known for his many world records, appearances on TV, and internet videos. Miculek is widely regarded as the fastest and most proficient all-around speed and competition shooter in the world, emptying a five-shot revolver in 0.57 seconds in a group the size of a playing card, thus often being dubbed "The Greatest Shooter of all Time". Miculek currently holds five officially sanctioned world records in revolver shooting."

"Fourth point of deflection, the market will react with a substitute for semi auto guns. I've said there is always a work around with gunners and you seem to prove my point. I guess we just need to go the route of Australia and include such things as lever action and pump action as well. When we achieve what I'm advocating it will be a simple matter to include the other methods of rapid fire IF they become an issue which I hope they will not. The goal is not to remove all guns, it is to reduce the number of deaths and injuries."

Sounds like you ARE advocating for the removal of all guns. Except single shots. Maybe somebody can shoot a single shot quickly, you'll back it down to single barrel muzzleloaders, only. And, in Australia, the gangs "market" ARE responding to the ban, making homemade fully automatic guns. And, if you want to reduce deaths and injuries, well, let's ban cars, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, swimming pools, bikes, etc.