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TTAG Exclusive: Brandy Vega Asks “What Is An Assault Weapon?”

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So Gun Nation News host Brandy Vega told me she was heading out into the real world (a.k.a., Salt Lake City) to do some woman-on-the-street interviews. I suggested she ask the great unwashed to define an assault weapon.

Regular readers will remember we posted a list of definitions from a Reason-Rupe Public Opinion Survey on gun control. Those who’ve perused this fantastic of farrago of firearms fail will not be surprised at Ms. Vega’s edited result — save the fact that the interviewees rightly assumed that an assault weapon was any weapon you use to assault someone.

The montage also highlights the fact that support for gun control comes from people who have only a vague idea what that term means, both in general and in specific.

To paraphrase P. T. Barnum, no one ever lost support for a political position by underestimating the intelligence of the average American.

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  1. The amount of Double Tap coverage on here lately has me wondering if this is the gun version the “Force on Force Training” “articles”, ala promotional releases.

    Edit: is Doubletap ammo related to the small pocket gun?

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  2. Congrats, Tom!

    Good price on most of it, but Walmart and several other shops around here are selling Fed bulk-pack 55 grain 5.56mm for $450/1000.

    Is the 9mm Premium FMJ some kind of L.E. practice/qual load?

    Thanks for the contest and nice prize, RF!

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  3. You know, I was a lot less disappointed than I expected. It seems like many of the respondents realized that a criminal could use any weapon to assault someone — which is entirely true of course. That being the case, they were not willing to let the mainstream media paint them into a corner on the definition of an assault weapon. I think that is a good thing.

    I expected a bunch of comments about “black”, “military”, “automatic”, “capacity”, and “kill people” and heard almost none of those references.

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  4. From the CBS story: “The group is sending dozens of cutout number nines to Washington to call for stronger laws nationwide to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.”

    Dozens!!! That’ll sure get Congress’ attention.

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  5. I don’t know Brandy, and I know very little of her, but I find it hard to believe those answers weren’t heavily edited. Five of the first six people said some variation of “anything you assault someone with can be an assault weapon.” Compare those pragmatic answers to the ones we publicized recently from a Reason-Rupe Public Opinion Survey. The only way I see 5 out of 6 people answering like the ones in the video is if the people being asked were walking out of an NRA convention.

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  6. Not sure what “industrial duty lye” is, and the Red Devil and Drano are pure, unadulterated sodium hydroxide.

    Anyway, we really do need to teach our kids and significant others to shoot; this POS’ attempts at caustic bluing a human being are not the worst that happens — although they’re certainly in the running.

    Restraining orders, peh! Monsters are real, and when seconds count, a contempt of court charge is only days away.

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  7. Great review Joe, I have had the M10-7.62 rifle for about a year now and I have to say that it is a great firearm . It is a very reliable and very accurate rifle .
    Thanks again for a well done review.

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  8. The thing is a rape helmet. Just throw it on your victim, or, better yet find one already wearing it. Put your hands in the ports to keep it over the eyes then run off into the night when done.

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  9. Uhh the headline on this article says… the Man with a gun in question was a concealed carry holder so was the gun concealed under a jacket or printing through a shirt??? Was he really open carrying or just carrying (poorly) concealed?

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  10. “…you can’t put a price-tag on safety.”

    Damn straight.

    Nothing is fool-proof, and nobody is ever guaranteed tomorrow regardless of what happens, but at least you have a chance to even the playing field to some degree.

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  11. Mark Kelly will let us know all 16 mass shootings next week, after he prays 8 or 9 happen this weekend, so he can add up to 16.

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  12. Good post, thanks Chris. I am a bit astonished to see the name of Chris Dumm and the word airguns in the same post. Decades ago, one of my high school friends had the Crosman model above. Let’s just say the pellets fired from it were effective at hitting the intended target and breaking things.

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  13. “… see these as two rogues trying to make a point.”
    What the city of Appleton really needs to see is 5-10 families with children spending their cash with both parents carrying ‘non-scary’ hunting rifles. Eventually their status go from rogues to kooks to weird people to john and jane. At that point you’ve fixed some people.

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  14. You know, I have a Parrot AR drone like the one they’ve modified for this, and even with an aftermarket battery, you’d be lucky to get 20 minutes of flight time out of it.

    It’s a toy, nothing more.

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