AR-15s In The News
BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 8 months ago
“Daesh has M16s and M4s, and we only have Kalashnikovs,” said another police officer, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. He said he had fled his home in Ramadi’s Soufiyah neighborhood with his wife and 1-year-old child. “I don’t think I will ever see my house again.”
In the eyes of the Iraqi Police, the Stoner platform wins. In my eyes too.
Police in Washington, D.C., have been referred materials for a possible investigation into two Republican congressmen who posed for a picture with an assault rifle in a House office building.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) last week tweeted a picture of himself and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the leader of the House’s Benghazi investigation, holding an AR-15.
Having the AR-15 in the District could be a violation of the city’s strict gun laws, and the city attorney general’s office has referred the matter to police, a spokesman told The Hill.
“The matter has been referred to the Metropolitan Police Department for further investigation,” he said.
Buck said in the tweet the assault rifle is his and the picture was taken after Gowdy “stopped by.”
Buck told The Hill the rifle is “inoperable” and that he received approval from U.S. Capitol Police to bring it to his office, where it is on display in a locked case.
“I have a very patriotic AR-15 hanging in my office. It hangs directly above my Second Amendment flag,” Buck said.
“While safety protocols call for all guns to be treated as if they are loaded, this one isn’t. Further, a close inspection of the only public photo of the rifle will show that the bolt carrier assembly is not in the rifle; it is in fact in Colorado.”
“It is a beautiful, patriotic paper weight,” he added.
If it’s a paperweight, it’s useless. Get one that works. And both Congressmen should have told the D.C. attorney general to blow it out his ass.
On April 22, 2015 at 2:21 pm, McThag said:
A stripped lower is a firearm… Even if the rest of the parts are in Brownell’s warehouse and I don’t own them yet. Stupid laws are still laws. Dammit.
On April 22, 2015 at 2:59 pm, Jack Crabb said:
Seems to me the Congresscritters should worry. After all, neither one of them is named David Gregory.
On April 22, 2015 at 5:19 pm, Michael Schlechter said:
I was thinking the same thing, but I couldn’t figure the right way to say it. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that they are both Repubs from red states (well, CO is purple, I guess) and Gowdy is particularly prominent as a thorn in the side of the administration.
On April 22, 2015 at 5:33 pm, Poshboy said:
The WaPo actually had an accurate article about this. Both MoCs are fine: DC has NO jurisdiction on this one. I’d still cut the DC Attorney’s budget by 50% just to teach them a lesson.
On April 24, 2015 at 3:48 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
A “very patriotic AR-15” is an AR15 that is inoperable? Seems to me to be the antithesis of a “patriotic” rifle. The fact that an inoperable, but somehow “very patriotic AR-15… hangs directly above a Second Amendment flag” certainly tells a story. Up to that point, I just couldn’t see how the story had anything at all to do with patriotism. Then, Rep. Buck noted the fact that “It is a beautiful, patriotic paper weight” whatever the hell that is.
So – even congresscritters are afraid to maintain a working copy of the most common rifle in U.S.A. in their office. So – even congressmen are more afraid of LEO’s than they are of criminals, and Constitutional proscriptions don’t mean squat, and they all know it. So much for oaths to protect the Constitution. May as well take oaths to protect unicorns.
And, unless, like Jack Crabb noted, you are a well-known gun grabber like David Gregory, holding up a very dangerous standard capacity mag for the world to see, you are NOT immune from prosecution from having even an inoperable EBR, in some Constitution-free venues.
I don’t know much about Rep. Ken Buck, but most folks I know would have an aftermarket BCG along with some ammo and mags close by – just not close enough for LEO’s to find.