The Democrats are After Evil Plastic Pistols Again

[Hard Ball]

As part of their attacks on Dick Cheney the Democrats are reviving the evil plastic guns without any metallic parts so they cannot be detected by metal detectors.
Handgun Control plans a one million dollar ad campaign to attack Bush and Cheney. Cheney's vote against banning the import of Glocks will be featured.

(see the 8-03-2000 issue of the Wall Street Journal for details)

[Ledbetter]

I look forward to seeing proof that such guns are commercially available.

Edited to add this:
DEMO logic: Dick Cheney is a bad man for allowing Glocks into the country so they could become a favorite of LEOs everywhere. Gore is a good man for supporting a policy forcing LEOs to abandon their favorite guns as a political reward to S&W.

Puke.

Ledbetter

[This message has been edited by Ledbetter (edited August 04, 2000).]

[PreserveFreedom]

Polymer treated with the Tennifer process? ROFL!

[Mal H]

Moving to Legal and Political forum...

[Dead]

Even my water pistol has metal parts! Though not enough to set off a Metal Detector, oh wait they want to ban those too dont they..

I gotta go dig a hole to put my "evil plastic" water pistols, and supersoakers in......

[Oatka]

This is a splendid opportunity to expose this piece of pap. The last time there was too much emotion, as usual.

This time, it's more politics, and thus more susceptible to dissection. I'd love to see someone film a Glock going through a metal detector, lights flashing, gongs ringing, etc.

Cheney gave a lame "I'm for the 2nd" answer instead of asking the reporter to name one
gun that would have met this criteria.

[Monkeyleg]

Here's a letter to the editor I wrote to my paper _twice_, and they didn't print it. So I sent it to another. Feel free to use it if you like, and change the AG reference and the PD.

To the editors:

Within minutes of the announcement that Dick Cheney would be George
Bush's running mate, gun ban zealots in congress and elsewhere denounced
Cheney's 1988 vote against a ban on so-called "plastic guns."
Even our own state attorney general has now joined the chorus, extolling
a ban that was the result of a fear campaign leading the public to
believe
that there were plastic guns that could go undetected by airport metal
detectors and x-ray machines. Conspicuously absent from the argument was
the fact that such non-metallic objects as hearts, lungs and other
organs are viewed on x-rays every day by doctors and nurses.

The gun at the center of the 1988 controversy was the Austrian-produced
Glock. The Glock contains some lightweight polymer external parts, but
83% of its construction is hardened steel, and it is readily
identifiable as a firearm when passed through metal detectors and x-ray
scanners. Today, that same Glock is one of the most widely issued
sidearms for law enforcement agencies nationwide, including the
Milwaukee Police Department, and is popular with citizens for
self-defense purposes.

Emotions and distortion are tools of the trade for gun banners, and it
is telling that Mr. Cheney chose instead to use reasoning when he
refused to ban something that did not exist in 1988, does not exist
today, and in all probability will never exist in the foreseeable
future. Our concern
should be with the mindset of congressmen who acquiesced to the hysteria
of the gun banners and squandered taxpayer dollars debating a bill that
would ban a non-existent object.

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Dick
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[paratrooper]

When they pry my cold dead finger from the water faucet .

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TOM
SASS AMERICAN LEGION NRA GOA