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   From: gp@dont-email.me   
      
   When a politician who abhors our freedom talks guns they can say   
   some absurd things.   
      
   “America is going to get a lot less safe,” Senate Minority   
   Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said after a court ruling that   
   found firearm schematics for 3-D printers can be shared online.   
   Schumer then said those firearms “are not only scary, they’re   
   outright dangerous in the way they can mimic the look and the   
   capacity of a hardened, fully semi-automatic weapon.”   
      
   By “fully semi-automatic weapon,” perhaps he meant machine guns,   
   which have been heavily regulated since 1934. As for “hardened,”   
   well that’s anyone’s guess. Regardless of what he meant, Schumer   
   was most certainly referring to modern sporting rifles, such as   
   very popular AR-15s with his reference to “semi-automatic   
   weapon.” Schumer, and other anti-gun politicians and media   
   members, like to pretend that modern sporting rifles are the   
   same as M4 carbines used by the U.S. military. They then spin   
   this to say that American citizens shouldn’t have “weapons of   
   war.”   
      
   It means nothing to them that modern sporting rifles are not   
   machine guns. They also don’t seem to realize that throughout   
   American history citizens have always used gun designs that are   
   similar to those used by the U.S. armed forces. They also don’t   
   seem to realize that many of the innovations in firearms and   
   related products the U.S. armed forces use have been developed   
   and extensively vetted in the American marketplace before being   
   adopted by the U.S. military.   
      
   Still, there is also a heavy helping of hypocrisy to this story.   
      
   In March of 2011 Schumer put a press release on his website   
   titled “Schumer: 40-50 New Jobs Coming to Remington’s   
   Manufacturing Plant in Ilion” that said, “Today, U.S. Senator   
   Charles E. Schumer joined Remington officials and plant   
   employees to announce that Bushmaster Firearms is relocating a   
   manufacturing facility from Windham, Maine, to Ilion, N.Y.,   
   bringing over 40 new jobs to central New York in the process.   
   Schumer has been a long-time supporter of manufacturing at the   
   Remington plant, urging top Army officials to open up   
   competition for the Army’s small arms contracts to other U.S.   
   manufacturers and domestic producers across the country like the   
   Ilion, N.Y.-based Remington. Today, Schumer applauded   
   Remington’s decision to add new jobs to the productive and   
   capable workforce already making the factory an economic   
   powerhouse in the Mohawk Valley.”   
      
   Bushmaster makes AR-15s. These are the same guns Schumer calls   
   “assault weapons” and wants to ban nationally. On CBS’ show   
   “Face the Nation” on Dec. 16, 2012, Schumer said we need to   
   “reinstate the assault-weapons ban.” He said this knowing he’d   
   never be challenged for hypocrisy by Bob Schieffer or any other   
   mainstream news journalist. He knows such journalists mostly   
   support him, but he also knows they don’t have a clue about this   
   issue.   
      
   Bushmaster soon left New York after the state banned the sale of   
   these popular rifles in 2013 with its Secure Ammunition and   
   Firearms Enforcement (S.A.F.E.) Act, but Schumer didn’t put out   
   a press release on that.   
      
   https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2018/8/4/schumer-has-   
   flip-flopped-on-guns/   
       
      
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