He Didn’t Just Lie About Arizona: Calderon Fibbed About Assault Weapons, Too
“Assault weapon” in CA also refers to any long arm with a pistol grip, or a flash hider, or a detachable high capacity magazine, or a bayonet lug, or a folding stock. As such it has no real meaning other than to make illegal a series of firearms based on features unrelated to their lethality. A bolt action rifle firing the century old .30-06 round is deadlier than an AR, yet having a spiffy wood stock and bolt action is temporarily safe from the banners.
Well, unless you put a scope on it, in which case it morphs in the eyes of the Brady Bunch into a “sniper rifle.”
In any event, as used by politicians and the media, it is a term completely useless in classifying a firearm. It gives the metrosexual elite a delicious chill when contemplating the inbred racist yokels in flyover country.
