Navy Yard weapon exempted under proposed ban

[bobclark86]

11. It's a pump shotgun. It's as sporting as you can get.

It ain't exactly a weapon of war, with the vast, vast, VAST majority of the 10 million used worldwide are for shooting clay disks and hunting squirrels. The army uses them for blowing locks on doors, and that's about it. Hell, most cops don't even carry them in cruisers anymore. Clones of it are about the only firearm allowed to be imported from China by the ATF, which won't let squat through from China.

For fuck's sake, even Andrew Cuomo, the real (i.e.: the only governor to immediately pass something after Sandy Hook... with a Republican house in the legislature) be-all, end-all enemy of "gun nuts" everywhere owns one:


Yes, that is a Remington 870 (or it's a Remington 1100, the same thing, but an even-scarier "semi-auto" version). A fancy one with pretty wood, but a Remington 870 available in bulk from every gun shop in the country.

Yeah, putting pump shotguns on the list just lost pretty much every sportsman nationwide who WOULD be in favor of restrictions on ARs and AKs. And you thought the last gun control bill went down in flames...

Now, a 5-round magazine ban for shotguns would be acceptable to many, because most can load only four. Still, with the resistance to a ban on ARs so nasty, you'll never EVER get this with anything even resembling the current Congress.