NYT: 'ASSAULT WEAPONS' A 'MYTH' DEMOCRATS CREATED IN 1990's

We Gunnies have know this stuff for years, but were always shouted down by the liberty haters with their obfuscations and outright lies. States like California ran with the ball and enacted draconian gun bans that have innocent people being thrown in prison and people having their firearms confiscated based on these bogus B.S. infringements masquerading as unlawful "laws". It took all these years for one of the major perpetrators of such propaganda, the N.Y. Times, to admit the truth when it no longer is relevant...Or is it?....(S9) ----
(On) The 20th anniversary of the signing of the federal assault weapons ban, The New York Times ran a column explaining that the very term "assault weapon" is one the "Democrats created" in the 1990s in order to ban "a politically defined category of guns." Moreover, the Times points out that the threat posed by the private ownership of "assault weapons" is mythological in comparison to FBI stats on the actual use of such guns in crime....assault weapons" are not the gun of choice for criminals anyway--and never have been... The New York Times did report one clear outcome of the "assault weapons" ban in 1994--Democrats got creamed at the polls in November...
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