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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Statists as alarmed by Ronnie Barrett's large caliber beliefs as by his rifles Back in the spring, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (RINO) proposed banning .50 caliber rifles as part of his plan to "curb gun violence." The fact that he could not point to any "gun violence" committed with .50 caliber rifles apparently did not concern him. His about-face veto in August of a bill that would do precisely that is a far greater indicator of his political ambitions beyond largely anti-gun New Jersey than of any Second Amendment epiphany on his part (he has clearly had none). At the time Christie was pushing such a ban, this column noted a peculiar phenomenon: the reports of the governor's desire for the ban always named a specific brand of .50 caliber rifles: "Speaking of Barrett's .50 caliber rifles, all of the articles I have seen so far have specifically named Barrett .50 caliber rifles as the objects of the proposed ban. While the Barrett guns are by far the best known of .50 BMG rifles, by now, many other gun manufacturers produce them. It was enough to make one wonder if Christie had a special animosity toward the Barrett company specifically." Now it's entirely possible that Christie, like most who would infringe on that which shall not be infringed, is utterly clueless about what he would presume to regulate, and is unaware that there are a fair number of makers of rifles chambered for the .50 BMG cartridge. But there is another possibility: “That would not be especially implausible. When California banned (for private citizens) firearms chambered in the .50 BMG caliber, Barrett refused to do any more business with the California government (and even made the LAPD come all the way to Barrett's Tennessee facility to pick up the rifles that their SWAT team had purchased previously, and had sent in for warranty work). Founder Ronnie Barrett's reasoning? The company had a both legal and moral obligation not to sell firearms to known criminals, and any entity that violated the Constitution is indeed committing a crime against the supreme law of the land, so he could no longer do business with the California government as it so blatantly violated the Second Amendment. “ That aggressive resistance to the "government monopoly on force," clearly, would not endear him to virulently anti-gun statists like Christie (and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is vociferous in their condemnation, as well). As it turns out, Christie and New Jersey are not alone in singling out Barrett's guns as the only .50 BMG rifles that need to be banned. According to the rabidly anti-gun Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Connecticut law bans one model of such rifles--guess whose: “Connecticut bans the possession, distribution, importation, transportation, and keeping or offering for sale of the “Barrett Light-Fifty model 82A1,” which is included in the state’s definition of assault weapon. Why the focus on Barrett rifles, specifically? They are no more powerful than other rifles chambered for the .50 BMG cartridge. Granted, the Light-Fifty is a semi-automatic rifle, while most other .50 BMG rifles are bolt-action or single shot, and thus slower to fire, but there are a few other semi-auto .50s, and Christie and Connecticut have left them alone. In other words, it really does appear that Barrett's very public high-minded, principled, uncompromising stance on the Second Amendment is what makes collectivists fear his rifles more than others that are essentially equally "dangerous." And that's one of the few things the statists get right--without the love of liberty, and the will and courage to defend it, the guns avail nothing. It's Barrett's ideas, even more than his rifles, that threaten their agenda. So far, though, they have not figured out a way to ban those. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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