Georgia Anti-Gunners Use Appalachee High Shooting Trial to Push for Full-Auto Switch Ban

The Appalachee High School shooting involved an AR-15-type rifle. A jackwagon of a student got it from his jackwagon of a father, who'd been made aware of threats, yet still bought him an AR-15 and gave him easy access to it just the same.

At no point was any kind of full-auto switch involved. This is important.

Why?

Because, in typical anti-gun fashion, gun control advocates in my home state of Georgia are trying to use the upcoming trial in that shooting to push for a full-auto switch ban.

As jury selection got underway in the Apalachee High School shooting murder trial for Colin Gray on Monday, gun safety advocates rallied for tougher laws at the Georgia Capitol.

Students rally for firearm safety

What they're saying:

Local students were among dozens lobbying for passage of House Bill 1127.

"I've seen multiple instances on the news, and just on social media, of people dying and suffering and family members really experiencing these, you know, bad things with gun violence," one student explained.

Yes, because social media always reflects real life, and no one ever exaggerates claims, amplifies nonsense, or anything of that sort there.

Moving on...

What is HB 1127?

The Legislation:

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Rep. Omari Crawford (D-Decatur) is sponsoring the switch ban bill.  He explained what the legislation would do."While it's important that we did pass school safety legislation last year, we need to prioritize and emphasize legislation that would again prohibit a lot of people from gaining access to firearms," Crawford explained.  "We know that those weapons are not for hunting. They're not for protecting. They are used for mass destruction."

Crawford is, apparently, an absolute moron.

Switches aren't guns. They're treated like machine guns under federal law--which is still in effect, mind you--but they aren't for hunting or protecting because they don't shoot by themselves. They're additions to actual firearms.

Further, the Second Amendment doesn't distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable weapons. It doesn't specify that a gun has to be for hunting or "protecting," except maybe for protecting this nation as a whole. In that case, a gun that can fire full-auto might well be within the parameters in question.

Of course, looking at the text of HB 1127, Crawford might not be as dumb as he seems and is, instead, saying the quiet part out loud.

In the text, some lines seem vague enough to cause concern:

(2)'Machine gun' means any weapon which shoots or, is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted to shoot, automatically, more than six shots one shot, without manual  reloading, by a single function of the trigger.  

(3) 'Parts of a machine gun' means:  

(A) The frame or receiver of any such weapon;  

(B) Any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts  

designed and intended, for use in converting a pistol into a machine gun; or  

(C) Any combination of parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such  

parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.

The issue here is that "readily converted to shoot" may well encompass firearms that weren't designed to be converted to anything, but which someone else has created a full-auto sear for, such as Glocks or AR-15s.

Of course, I also don't know what "more than six shots one shot" is supposed to mean, so it might be largely irrelevant as there's no firearm on the planet that meets such a nonsensical definition.

Still, I find it weird that anti-gun groups keep launching efforts apparently predicated on mass killings that have absolutely nothing to do with the killings in question.

In the case of Appalachee High, there was no full-auto switch involved.

But you're also not going to see an assault weapon ban happen here in the Peach State, and everyone knows it. This may also be a way to hopefully push the gates open just a bit, especially as pro-gun Alabama has such a law in place.

However, I'm going to remind everyone that these are already illegal at the federal level and any state-level legislation is, at best, redundant.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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