I do not think it means what you think it means
In fact, the lower pictured weapon, a Mossberg 500 Tactical Persuader, has a number of features that increase its lethality compared to the top pictured shotgun.
Emphasis mine.
A pistol grip does not make a shotgun “more lethal”. A removable stock does not make a shotgun “more lethal”. Cosmetic features do not make a firearm “more lethal”. What makes a firearm dangerous to other people is the person wielding it, not its color, not the length of the barrel, not the rate of fire, not the magazine capacity. Heck, you could have a fully automatic, 12” shotgun with TWO pistol grips and a hip-firing adapter, hand it to me, and it might as well be filled with cotton-ball loaded shells for all the damage I’d do to others.
I love the whole “Oh, but if you take off the buttstock, it’ll be concealable!” shtick. Yeah, sure, you can shove that one down your pants and nobody will think twice about you walking around like Captain Ahab looking for his whale. And firing from the hip? That’s a great way to waste a bunch of ammo.
It’s ironic that these idiots only know what they know about firearms from movies and miss the realities. A butt stock will help with your aiming and this ensure you’re on target better, but take it off and make an unstable platform and suddenly you can just hear the bodies of the orphans in the cancer ward just hit the ground in pieces.
However, I want to point out some good news and a warning – Read the comments. So far, the response, even from self described Democrats, has been one of sound rejection of the post’s main thrust. Never assume that your political opponent is 100% aligned against you.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go toss on a WARN winch, some Hella lights and a spoiler on my GTI and turn it into a Rally car.
Hat Tip Weer’d Beard
Incoming Fire
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Their approach is a "one bite of the elephant" type of thing. Each time they are successful at restricting some facet of firearms, they reduce the size and scope of firearms culture. Eventually, they will (or hope to) reduce it far enough that we no longer have enough people voting for our side and they will be able to move on to the less scary looking firearms.
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Would be fun to see a graphic with a tacticool Mossberg with the bayonet on it too, labelled as legal, and then see a semi that has just enough parts (preferrably a barrel shroud and something else that barely shows in the picture), labelled as an evil shotgun.
To top it all off, anyone with actual experience with Semi's knows how finnikey they can be if not fed the right diet, so when it comes to "Functional differences" to use MM's term, the standard pump is potentially more lethal in the hands of an untrained shooter since it is less likely to jam on whatever the pinhead bought.
@Robb: Your software seems to be mangling links.
Or, urm, so I'm told.
So if Finestein and her ilk get their way, I can still defend myself and my family with Revolvers, Lever Guns, and Old School Shotguns. Not that that would be a Good Thing, of course. Since they'd try to come after those types next.
But something tells me that if it got that Bad, "Plan B" would be in effect anyway.