https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/statuses/396363030277414912
Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens
Shannon Watts, head honcho of Bloomberg-derivitive gun prohibitionist group Moms Demand Action, managed yesterday to make the single dumbest comment made by a clueless gun control advocate, ever.
Obsessed with banning AR-15s, Watts has shown that she knows nothing about them, and has now redefined “assault weapon” to mean any firearm that can fire 10 shots in a minute, which essentially means any firearm design of the past 150+ years.
The Spencer rifle, created in 1860, has a practical rate of fire of 20 rounds per minute. Lever-action rifles can fire ten shots in a bit less than a minute.
Bolt-action rifles also easily fire 10 shots in less than half a minute, including even the most “benign” deer rifle.
Even single-shot shotguns can be fired at a rate of more than 10 rounds a minute, as long as the shooter has shells accessible.
Or perhaps we should look at this statement another way.
By defining every modern firearm as an assault weapon based upon a ten rounds per minute rate of fire, Watts is confirming that she wants to ban all firearms.
It may be the first time she’s ever been honest about her intentions.
About the author: Bob Owens
Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com.
A long-time shooting enthusiast, he began blogging as a North Carolina native in New York at the politics-focused Confederate Yankee in 2004. In 2007 Bob began writing about firearms, gun rights, and crime at Pajamas Media, and added gun and gear reviews for Shooting Illustrated in 2010. He is a volunteer in the Appleseed Project, where he shares stories of our shared American heritage and teaches traditional rifle marksmanship.
His personal blog is bob-owens.com, and he can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.
http://bearingarms.com/moms-demand-founder-declared-every-gun-an-assault-weapon/
“Obsessed with banning AR-15s, Watts has shown that she knows nothing about them, and has now redefined “assault weapon” to mean any firearm that can fire 10 shots in a minute, which essentially means any firearm design of the past 150+ years.”
If brains were dynamite, she couldn’t blow her nose.
That’s for sure. LOL