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September 9, 2009 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  busy
Category: News and Politics
Louisiana State Representative Cedric Richmond (D-New Orleans) is now running to represent his state's 2nd Congressional District in Congress. He has to get past at least one primary challenger as well as a Republican opponent, but Richmond also has to contend with his opposition to the Second Amendment.

Richmond introduced House Bill 387 to the state legislature. If passed, this bill would have outlawed possession of a semi-automatic firearm in Louisiana unless it was registered with the state government and its owner subjected to an additional background check. The bill was killed in committee, but not before Richmond tried to salvage the ban by limiting the ban to only AK-47s, which he claimed were responsible for most of the headaches that the New Orleans Police Department had to contend with.

Explaining this change in tactics, Richmond said, "I am going after one gun," further stating that he didn't "want to infringe on the Second Amendment" right to keep and bear arms.

As many gun owners are aware, the term "AK-47" is often used as a catchall term to describe any rifle or carbine that is part of the Kalashnikov family of firearms. It can be used to denote a traditional, old-school AKM chambered in 7.62x39mm and capable of full-automatic fire. It can be used to denote a Saiga hunting rifle that lacks the pistol grip and bayonet lug of its military relatives. There is a multitude of Kalashnikov models available from many different nations in all sorts of lengths, calibers, and configurations.

Was it Richmond's desire to just ban AKs that were deemed "military?" Or did he intend to go after any rifle that happened to use that particular gas-piston design, even if it only accepted 5-shot magazines and could not be fitted with a pistol grip?

I could go on, but suffice it to say that legislators need to be educated and forthcoming on any laws they introduce on the floor. Otherwise, we get stuck with incidents like the one where Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) told her interviewer that a barrel shroud is a "shoulder thing that goes up."

The Democratic Party cannot afford this sort of nonsense anymore.
8:04 PM
 
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