Maybe I am a little hypocritical, but I just see a difference between a hard to conceal sporting rifle that has a length of 40 inches compared to a easily concealable high capacity pistol with the length of 12 inches, whose sole use is to kill people, they are inaccurate and only effective when used at a high rate of fire, they are neither sporting guns or defensive weapons.
Sporting rifles can be used in various target competition throughout the country and this state as well as for hunting. When used for hunting they are restricted as are any other rifle bolt or semi at a 5 rd magazine capacity.
Also "Assault weapons" only total something like 3% of all gun crimes and of those "assault pistols" or high capacity pistols are use the most. This fact combined with the 101 California shootings, where the shooter concealed a pair of TEC-9s and went on a shooting spree in the upper floors, enabled the gun control nuts to lump long rifles into the ban. As horrible as this sounds if that guy had a just used pistols sporting rifles would still for sale here.
So many problems with this that it's not even funny.
1. The Second Amendment is not primarily about hunting. It is primarily about the right of the individual to protect themselves from public or private lawlessness and tyranny and enemies foreign and domestic. Reread the Federalist Papers as well as the writings of Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin.
2. "easily concealable high capacity pistol with the length of 12 inches, whose sole use is to kill people, they are inaccurate and only effective when used at a high rate of fire" - sorry, those aren't 'easily concealable'. Or at least no more than, say, a sawed off shotgun, which is even more easily concealed.
This is an OA-93 pistol, essentially a cut-down AR-15 type:
I used to own one. I could easily hit what I was shooting at out to 50 meters with this "high capacity pistol" - one shot at a time. What you're not liking is the classic (and infamous Tec-9, and you're confusing a lot of larger pistols with that pile of crap. More on this in a bit.
You do realize that your definition also includes this Olympic-use marksman pistol, right? California's did too!
Kind of hard to say that that's not sporting use.
4. Not all states or localities restrict magazine capacity when hunting. Many do not. When hunting "varmint", most localities have no restriction on magazine capacity. Likewise, there are some states that only have magazine capacity restrictions on higher caliber firearms.
5. I don't know where you got the "Assault pistols are the most often used assault weapon" bit, but it's totally untrue. For starters, the TEC-9 was never favored by criminals because they're unreliable and inaccurate piles of junk. Most of the things the press calls "assault weapon" attacks were carried out by normal semiautomatic weapons, and usually not even those that possess the "evil features" as prescribed by the Brady Bill. Those crimes that actually are carried out with fully-automatic weapons are actually usually submachineguns stolen from the police or *real* full-auto assault rifles smuggled in from other countries. Most gangsters never used those "assault pistols" and went back to simple handguns. It should also be mentioned that IIRC, in the 101 California incident, the TEC-DC9s weren't the major instrument of killing. He killed 8 people and wounded six more. Most of those people killed died because when his TECs jammed (like they always do, which is why nobody in their right mind used them), he drew his .45 pistol and was actually able to shoot people with it.
See:
http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/KobayashiAndOlson.htm
"The claims in 101 California Street stem from the deaths and injuries caused by gunman Gian Luigi Ferri on July 1, 1993. On that date at 2:56 p.m., Ferri entered the offices of the law firm of Pettit & Martin on the 34th floor of 101 California Street, San Francisco, California, carrying a Chinese-made . 45 caliber self-loading pistol and two 9mm TEC-DC9 self-loading pistols made by Navegar, Inc.[13] In four minutes, Ferri discharged some fifty rounds of ammunition from the three firearms and shot fourteen persons on the 34th, 33rd, and 32nd floors of the building.[14] Because his TEC-DC9s jammed early in the incident, most of the wounds resulted from Ferri's use of the ordinary .45 pistol. Eight of the gunshot victims died from blood loss, compounded by the police delay in allowing paramedics access to the injured. At 3:07 p.m., Ferri killed himself in the stairwell between the 29th and 30th floors.[15]"
The .45 semiauto did most of the killing and wounding, the TECs didn't. The TEC-DC9 is difficult to conceal. The TEC-DC9 is a very unreliable POS.
Bottom line, the antigun people used 101 Cali as an excuse to ban many guns that were not at all at fault.
