When a reporter asked California Congresswoman (and former concealed carry licensee) Nancy Pelosi if her bump fire stock ban bill was a slippery slope to great gun control, she replied “I certainly hope so.” As the feds continue to wrangle over bump fire stocks, the Huffington Post is eagerly waiting for some new gun control slope sliding. Like this . . .
While the Las Vegas massacre rekindled the debate over the millions of assault-style rifles owned by American civilians, there’s been much less public scrutiny of all the gear designed for military operations that is now marketed directly to civilians . . .
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives does not regulate the sale or use of night vision equipment, a spokesperson said, and the legality of using night vision devices for hunting varies by state.
Ladd Everitt, the director of One Pulse for America, a gun violence prevention group, says that should change. Military-style gear like night vision equipment could be used in mass shootings like the one in Las Vegas, he said. (The Vegas shooter himself did not use night vision gear.)
Night vision equipment is “not the tool of sportsmen,” Everitt said. “It’s the tool of people who are seeking to kill as many people as possible in as short amount of time as possible.”
Like . . . a pressure cooker bomb? Speaking of which, lots of stuff could be used to kill as many people as possible: Home Depot trucks, fertilizer, gasoline, dump trucks. etc. Should they all be banned?
The HuffPost’s assault on the sale of U.S.-legal night vision equipment focuses on the possibility that bad actors acting badly (on behalf of ISIS and other U.S. enemies) can buy the stuff and ship it abroad. But the quote from Mr Everitt highlights the antis’ real goal: civilian disarmament.
The problem here: bump fire stocks and “military grade night vision gear” aren’t firearms per se. So it’s easy to claim they’re not covered by the Second Amendment’s protection against government infringement. Just as it’s easiest to degrade and destroy the right to keep and bear arms by chipping away than a full frontal assault. In case you hadn’t already figured that out.
[Note: another appearance of “gun violence prevention.” And this is the first we’ve heard of the George Takei-founded One Pulse for America. Its Director is gun control extremist Ladd Everitt of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.]
In May…currently have another on layaway. BREAKING NEWS: Major church shooting in TEXAS…
Pixie from the swamp speaks of things in which they are ignorant
Ladd Everitt is the Director of One Pulse for America, a gun violence prevention group founded by actor and activist George Takei and Team Takei in response to the mass shooting in an LGBTQ
Kalifornia has required me to purchase one a month since 2000. I have been excessively in compliance
Notice how these milquetoast commie gun grabbers, who never leave the “safe” confines of the upper west side and have never even touched a firearm; love to declare themselves experts on what does and doesn’t have sporting purposes, infantry tactics, and just about everything firearms related?
And anyone else getting annoyed of hearing the tired old shpeal: “It’s the tool of people who are seeking to kill as many people as possible in as short amount of time as possible.”
With as much as they talk about carnage and death, I think it’s some sort of psychological projection and fantasy that these leftists have.
I honestly think that these leftists want to go on some mass shooting against a bunch of disarmed Americans. The mainstream media love it when regular Americans are killed by bad guys.
They’ve shown time and time again that they have sympathy to cop killers, Islamic terrorists, illegal aliens, and communist dictators; while at the same time they gleefully report, almost to the point of celebration, dead American soldiers, dead police officers, and so forth…
DiFi, Ladd Everitt, and arianna huffington ought to be the ones being looked at by the government not us gun owners.
But that’s just my $0.02…
This could never happen in Massachusetts since the state just criminalized bump stocks, with up to life in the joint for simple possession. We’re all saved!
These mass shootings are an affront to humanity. Even worse, the wrong people are the ones getting shot.
The USG should ban the media from reporting these ‘shooting instances’. Clearly trouble people are committing these horrible acts as way of acting out; knowing that they will be heard.
Yes I am always armed at church. I carry a small makarov either in my jacket or in a IWB holder, depending on what I am wearing.