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The new Newspeak

Posted by simonov on 10 May 2007

Found this Orwellian gem in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s press release announcing her latest gun ban bill:

This legislation doesn’t ban any firearms; it would only institute common-sense regulations for the sale of these dangerous sniper rifles.

Basically, her proposal would make .50 BMG rifles so-called “NFA devices,” regulating them in exactly the same way machine guns are currently regulated. Are machine guns banned? How many people do you know who own one? In Feinstein’s state, which is my state, California, it is illegal for civilians to possess any NFA devices under any circumstances. Sounds like a gun ban to me.

The reason .50 BMG rifles are legal to possess today is because the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) placed a ceiling on rifled calibers that civilians could possess, and that ceiling was – you guessed it! – half an inch.

Now Feinstein (along with Senators Kennedy, Levin, Menendez, Mikulski, Clinton, Durbin, Boxer and Lautenberg, ie, the usual gang of idiots) wants to reduce the legal caliber to – what? – I don’t know, there’s no text of the bill available at thomas.gov, so all we have to go by is her press release. This is an incremental gun ban. Should this bill become law, Feinstein & Company will simply start working their way, bill by bill, down to .22 Long Rifle. How do we know that? Remember what she said on 60 Minutes in 1995:

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out right ban, picking up every one of them, “Mr and Mrs America, turn ‘em all in,” I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren’t here.

However, as at least one of the co-sponsors of Feinstein’s new gun ban is running for President, she can’t just come out and call her gun ban a gun ban. That wouldn’t be prudent. So she takes a page from 1984 and calls her gun ban not-a-gun-ban.

BTW, Feinstein also voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. After all, War is Peace, and “We have always been at war with Iraq.”

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