Gun Control & RKBA
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Charles Whitman packed up a sawed off 12-gauge shotgun, a Remington 700 6mm bolt-action hunting rifle, a .35 caliber pump rifle, a .30 caliber carbine, a 9mm Luger pistol, a Galesi-Brescia .25-caliber pistol and a Smith & Wesson M19 .357 Magnum revolver, and over 700 rounds of ammunition, along with food, coffee, vitamins, Dexedrine, Excedrin, earplugs, jugs of water, matches, lighter fluid, rope, binoculars, a machete, three knives, a transistor radio, toilet paper, a razor and a bottle of deodorant, then headed to the tower about 11:00 AM on August 1st 1966.
Today some folks want to make weapons like that Universal carbine illegal. Would that have stopped Whitman?
It's already illegal to shorten a shotgun barrel to less than a prescribed length but we still sell shotguns and saws. As far as I can tell only the carbine with mags over 10 rounds would be outlawed by an "Assault Weapons Ban".
There were 16 killed (including Whitman's family members stabbed the night before) and 32 injured. At the time the country's response was rather universal. Police and sheriff's departments all over began forming SWAT Teams. I believe that was a wise decision.
Harris and Klebold had a TEC-9 during the last AWB. The TEC-9 was an "assault weapon". Did the AWB affect the shooters in any way?
At Virginia Tech that crazy nut shot 50 people including himself and killed 33. He used pistols which wouldn't be banned. What would an "Assault Weapons Ban" have changed?