Everything I Don't Like is a Loophole
If you don't like something that's legal the first thing you must do is label it a loophole. Don't like the fact that a company is using the tax code as written? Claim that company is exploiting a tax code loophole. Don't like individuals owning legally allowed firearms? As Uncle points out you must merely those individuals are exploiting a loophole:
California has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. But one wouldn’t know that going to the firing range these days. AR-15s and AK-47s are the must-have guns of choice. How can that be?
Every time California tightens up the assault weapons ban, the gun industry finds a way around it. The latest example involves a tiny device.
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That’s because the most popular guns at the range these days are semi-automatic rifles. In a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, how is it these military-style guns are legal?
Brian Normandy is an instructor at Jackson Arms. “As long as we don’t have a detachable magazine in it, it’s actually a legal firearm,” Normandy said.
Other states allow people to use their finger to pop out the magazine and quickly reload. It is called a detachable magazine, which is illegal in California.
The intent is to slow down the process of reloading the weapon. But many target shooters don’t like the reloading hassle. “For me to use this on the range, I would have to open up the receiver and top load it,” said Normandy.
To get around this, gun manufacturers are selling firearms to Californians with what is called a “bullet button.”
The user uses the tip of a bullet to release the empty magazine and pop in a new one. The button doesn’t work with one’s finger, so the magazine is considered “fixed.”
What? People owning firearms that are legal under California law? They must be exploiting a loophole! Wow... that sounds incredibly stupid when I type it out. When you think about it the people crying out against this "bullet button loophole" are really saying, "These people own something I don't approve of and it's entirely legal! I don't like how the law is written therefore they must be exploiting a loophole!" It's almost like claiming somebody is exploiting a loophole is a loophole in of itself. In fact I think I'm going to start calling this the loophole loophole.
This does demonstrate the fact that gun control advocates will never be satisfied. No matter how many hoops we jump through, not matter how cumbersome we make firearms to use, no matter how many days we make people wait to purchase a firearm the anti-gunners will never be happy. We can't negotiate with these people because they only want one thing: a complete abolition of firearm ownership. There is no meeting these people halfway so we shouldn't even consider doing so. In their eyes the only common sense gun control laws are blanket prohibitions. Why should be placate them? I say we give them a big middle finger and refuse to implement any of their beloved gun control laws. They won many victories in the '90's and kept coming back for more and we finally pushed back. Unfortunately many gun owners now believe we're at a point where we can stop pushing, I say we keep pushing until every single gun control law currently on the books is entirely overturned. Every. Last. One.