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Post by avordvet on Sept 17, 2014 5:06:13 GMT -5
New Anti-Gun Strategies“Assault weapon” bans have proved very unpopular — but the anti-gun lobbies aren’t giving up entirely.September 16, 2014 12:00 PM, By Dave Kopel American gun owners basically had the same idea as Krauthammer. After Czar Bennett’s import ban, they mobilized under what the Second Amendment Foundation calls the “NATO doctrine”: an attack on one form of gun ownership is an attack on all. This is one of the most important reasons why the American Second Amendment movement has been so politically effective for most of the last nine decades: American gun owners defend the right to own types of guns that they do not personally own and may have no interest in owning. This is very different from the behavior of gun owners in some other nations. For example, in the United Kingdom, shotgun owners have paid little attention to the rights of rifle owners, and neither ever did much for handgun owners. So, today, handguns are gone, while long guns are legally owned by less than 5 percent of the population. www.nationalreview.com/article/388080/new-anti-gun-strategies-dave-kopel/page/0/1
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