From The Violence Policy Center, one of the most effective anti-gun hysteria brokers in Washington:
The [Supreme] Court’s ruling today [on DC v Heller] does not appear to affect the District’s [of Columbia] ban on “machine guns,” which under DC law includes any gun “which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted or restored to shoot semiautomatically, more than 12 shots without manual reloading.” This definition would include virtually all semiautomatic handguns. As a result, the District’s ban can remain in force for those types of handguns, commonly known as pistols. In essence, the Court’s ruling for the most part will only affect revolvers and derringers.
Semiautomatic guns fire one shot per trigger pull, have greater ammunition capacity, and can be quickly and easily reloaded. They are the weapon of choice in mass shootings and police killings*, and are the most common type of handgun manufactured in America, representing 73 percent of the 1,403,329 handguns manufactured in the United States in 2006 (the last year for which figures are available). In contrast, revolvers hold only five to six ammunition rounds, fire more slowly, take time to reload, and represent only 27 percent of the handguns manufactured in 2006.
* - and Personal Defense, you putz.
According to The District the following is a machine gun:
Yep, the VERY SAME guns that cops and government types use everyday are considered, once in the hands of average law-abiding citizens, to be machine guns. Folks, we simply won an important battle, but the war continues.
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1 Micheal // Jun 28, 2008 at 7:18 am
Yep, the war of propaganda annd rhetoric from the left-winged anti-gun.
It will be our job, as bloggers, to shine a light on thier misleading and untruthful statements. To educate the public on what truly is and is not. the truth of the matter.