LAZY EYED SNIPER said:
The P22's design has the barrel secured to the frame with a threaded-on cap.
The 1/2x28 adapters for suppressors thread onto this feature but even without the adapter the barrels are still factory threaded...
^this
pistol + detachable magazine + threaded barrel = assault weapon.
At least according to this bill if it passes.
Other factory pistols would be illegal too. Another example that would be classified as an assault weapon: 22LR sig mosquito
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =326825686
And here is a field strip video of the P22. The part that pertains to the barrel is about the 1:30-1:50 for a verbal explanation or at 3:20 to 4:00 for more of a visual
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTAt6xXsRxA[/youtube]
OK, now for my thoughts.
The bill said one or more MILITARY feature.
If these people who write these bills knew their history better they would know when Hiram Maxim first invented the firearm silencer and patented it in 1908, it was not meant for military purposes. It specifically mounted to a barrel that had been THREADED.
It was meant for commercial purposes. And all of the bulk of his sales went toward general stores and mail order catalogs and the likes, since at that time, firearm silencers weren't a regulated device.
Coincidentally,vehicle mufflers are not a military feature either, although by her logic, they too should be because the technology used in firearm suppressors, went into vehicle sound suppression were used by the Maxim's in early gasoline engine design they were inventing/creating. But that is a discussion for another day so I don't hijack my own post.
back on the subject of threaded barrels, not until the height of WWII (almost a FULL
30 YEARS LATER and completely bypassing the first world war) were suppressed weapons even considered for military use because until that point, there were very few (if any) clandestine missions that would require it.
British Gov't during that era did adapt several designs for service, but only in limited numbers. The welrod and delisle come to mind right off, and the US was quick to help by research and providing shot out thompson barrels for the delisle project.
But a threaded barrel was only a means to attach the sound suppressor (which is 100% legal to own and use Federally, and only prohibited by STATE law) and later, was adapted into numerous other firearms for various reasons, so in REALITY, threaded barrels are NOT a military weapon feature, they were a civilian feature first and the military later adopted it in SOME of their weapons, while many later military weapons still did not utilize that feature even to this day.
If it was a military feature, then wouldn't it be required on all military barrels? Whether it is a tank barrel, a pistol, shotgun,rifle,rocket launcher, etc?
So to call a threaded barrel a military feature, is simply yet another falsehood spewed by them. Again, I know they don't like it when people uses logic to show them how wrong they are, but there it is.
So, this bill, if passed, does further restrict law abiding gun owners rights because it would in effect ban the placement of threaded barrels to accept a sound suppressor, or any muzzle attachment, which is completely legal to do and even further restricts my rights and not even to mention the extra taxes that I and many others have paid over the years to legally make and/or own them.
