- Politically Motivated Law Enforcement

America’s stupidest law claims another victim.

A gun shop in Nassau County (The suburban part of Long Island which sidles up against Brooklyn and Queens) has been raided by those brave members of law enforcement interested in protecting the private citizenry. Did they sell guns to known gunrunners or see them shipped to Mexican drug cartels in the murder of US citizens? No – the ATF under Obama did that. What this gun shop did was they committed the heinous crime of selling rifles which had a pin in the stock. This pin prevented the otherwise adjustable stock from being adjusted.

But the pin wasn’t the problem in and of itself. What made the rifles so dangerous was that the pin could be removed. And if that pin were removed it would make the stock slide back and forth to adjust for the particular body dimensions of the shooter. You may be asking, “How does this put the public at risk?” Well an adjustable stock is considered one of the ‘evil features’, which causes a firearm to be considered a dreaded ‘assault weapon’.

These rifles operate no differently than any other rifle. They are no more powerful or dangerous than other, perfectly legal firearm. In fact, since the stock were pinned in place, they were no longer adjustable, and therefore weren’t actually assault weapons at all. The fact that they could be modified by the owner to qualify as assault weapons is the only assertion here.

But right or wrong, thanks to an overly ambitious DA who obviously has an anti-gun bias, this gun shop is more than likely finished. At the very least they will have an lengthy and expensive legal defense to mount The end result will probably be that one more gun shop is eliminated – which was very likely the whole point of the prosecution in the first place.

No one believes the public was put at risk here. The Assault weapons ban was designed to expand prosecutorial discretion to the point where it can be used to advance political ends. It was never really intended to protect innocent people. It was always designed to be a tool for the political harassment of gun owners. And that’s obviously what’s happening in this case.

If you make the law vague enough, then anyone is a criminal so long as someone in authority says they are. That was the point with the Assault Weapons Ban, and is clearly the case with this prosecution.