— 9mm, Krayzie Bone 2009
Everyone who scribes in this esteemed publication quotes song lyrics, so I quoted some; it must be the politically correct thing to do?
After Las Vegas, the call to ban the AK-47 is starting up again. To quote a liberal friend of mine, “No one needs an AK-47.”
To be clear, I have worked with the ATF folks, back in my Army CID days, to apprehend bad guys with fully automatic weapons. I am not advocating the civilian ownership of fully automatic weapons.
I own an SKS Carbine, the forerunner of the AK-47. It has not committed a crime in the decades I have owned it. The AK-47 looks scarier, but it has a slower rate of fire than most semiautomatics. I would much prefer to be up against a weapon on the AK platform than one on the AR 15 platform.
Please remember when we banned “Saturday Night Specials;” the RG-10 was the poster child for the ban. The ban just made the bad guys get much more lethal weapons. The RG-10 was a six shot .22 Cal. The Glocks and other much more lethal weapons they purchased were 9mm or larger calibers, mostly 9 mm (around .38 cal.), with a 15-round capacity.
As the rappers call them, my niner, shooting a bullet 3.194 times the mass of the .22 at the same muzzle velocity. The 9mm is more than 3 times as deadly as a .22 cal. The road to hell is paved with, well you know.
Ban the semiauto Kalashnikov and all semiautos and bad guys will purchase the full auto versions on the black market. The AK-47, and its newer version the AK74, are the most available weapons in the world; placed end to end, they would stretch more than 56,818 miles. Fully around the earth at the equator, twice without the bayonet.
A new Kalashnikov sells for less than $300; in the third world, down to $6 used. A full auto one will fetch you $4,000 to $9,000 on the street in most American cities.
Half measures never work; though they make folks feel good, the assault weapons ban did not help at all; probably because no one knew what it was, and it was so general. It made no sense banning weapons because
of the color of the weapon? Shape of the stock? Placement of the magazine well? Because it had a pistol grip or a bayonet stud? Have you seen a lot of drive by bayonettings lately?
If you want to get gun control, revoke the Second Amendment. Put an amendment on the ballot on 2020 and stop the feel-good tired old laws. But if you revoke it, beware the black market, for guns will be enormous and the dead will pile up even deeper than they are already in the liberal bastion of Chicago. The bad guys will get weapons from Mexico; dry up that pipeline, and they will come from the Russians, North Korea, or the middle east. Well over 100 million AK-47/74s are on the market as of 2013. In the tribal regions of Pakistan, folks make them in garage shops, mostly by hand.
The left will do what it always does, ban/control some aspect of ownership and give each other awards and accolades while accomplishing nothing. God this crap is tiring; repeatedly the same laws are redone as political show.
If we banned the AK-47 we need to ask, what is that? What is an AK-47? We have more than 30 versions, some American made, some that look like an AK-47 but have a different operating system, some with a wire stock, some with a fully wood stock, or a polymer stock. Some with the same operating system as an AK, but look like an AR.
The operating system Mikhail Kalashnikov designed in 1947 is in pistols as well rifles; do we ban them? Some old Browning shotguns have a similar operating system to the AK-47. No, my friends, banning the AK-47 will not do anything but make folks feel good for a short time. The people in the United States have 200 million firearms and 12 trillion rounds of ammunition.
I fully understand that the issue of the Second Amendment is one that touches a raw nerve with most people, and I will be called heartless and cruel and be told I want to see blood running in the streets — not true. I have taken automatic weapons out of the hands of criminals, but that will not matter to the anti-Second Amendment folks.
5 Comments