Friday, February 6, 2009

Falsity #1: "If they are not manufactured, then criminals will not have access."

On the issue of assault weapons, Catherine says:

Reply: The answer is a ban. If they are not manufactured, then criminals will not have access. Putting more people in prisons is never a good answer, but at least we can agree on prosecutions for marijuana.


Catherine is wrong. It's fairly easy to make your own "assault weapon" and even a real fully automatic assault rifle. And i'll bet every firearm in my collection that the federal laws prohibiting the manufacture of a machine gun won't prevent dedicated criminals from doing so.

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