They go after semiautomatics because they operate incrementally; the other guns will be taken next. Same way we now have gay marriage in the military, advancing later to lowering the age of consent to include children, to polygamy, who knows what else. It´s why "the poor" have free cell phones and can buy fast food with food stamps.

Great. Now I have to rethink my love of revolvers. My personal carry gun is a 5 shot snub nose .357 revolver. They are completely reliable and not dependent on bullet weight or powder charge as autos are. Magazine spring fatigue is not an issue. There is no need to rack the slide, and they are as close to completely safe as one can get. About half my handgun cabinet is autos and they make some fine ones, but I still feel better with a revolver.
Now the libs like them? Grrrr.

Don´t kid yourselves. Give them enough power, and the socialists will ban every firearm down to matchlocks, and then start on swords, axes, and knives.

How many we´re killed in cars? Shouldn´t we ban them also?

If there´s no kids around a loaded revolver is just fine. But I think an unloaded semi with a handy clip is less prone to accidents.

Another reason is that if they can hold their shots fired down, they leave no brass to track them. With a magazine full you leave a trail of empties. With a wheel-gun, if you can hold your number of shots fired to a single cylinder full, there is no brass to trace and you can disappear with only the spent bullets to mess up the scenery. Good planning.

Agreeing with Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley

The snub nosed .357 is reliable, simple, and is plenty accurate for self defense. The .357 is actually an elongated .38 special. So, .38 special ammo can be shot from the heavier .357 hand gun, which is what I do to minimize recoil. With my .357 snub nose S&W, I can hit a soda can at 20 ft.

In the heat of battle, if it should come to that, there is the fight or flight reaction that hypes a person up, and makes them prone to pulling the trigger before aiming. With a revolver, you know you have to properly aim for each shot because you only have a few shots. But some situations call for an autoloader and some situations call for a revolver.

First they came for the semiautomatics...

One reason they´re after semi-automatic rifles more than pistols is that it´s harder to hit targets at long distance with pistols.

Their target isn´t reducing civilian murders, but thwarting any ideas of armed revolt.

I´m more concerned about the projected crowd loss for Obama´s inauguration. Where´s people uniting around our great presidents second term?A show of appreciation for his first term accomplishments would tell the world America´s on it´s way back.

Nevermind,I was just pretending to be a MSM journalist.

They can ban booze (didn´t work), and they can ban pot (hasn´t worked), and they can ban prostitutes (wink-wink), and whatever they ban, if there is genuine demand for it, the underground economy will become the supplier. This serves to empower the gangs and sydicates (higher margins). And that means more murders. Does the mob want guns banned. Yes, of course. None of those background checks, either.

Bill Hickok made good work with 36 caliber Colt Navy cap and ball revolvers.

Taurus 5-Shot .410 and .45 Colt.

It´s an itty-bitty shotgun.

Nice people must always have the last word.

Do good.

Protect the innocent.

Be nice.

This article infers the Sandy Hook killings were committed with a semiautomatic rifle. I heard he had a rifle in his car, I thought the murders were committed with two handguns.

Did I miss something?

Doesn´t anyone remember the liberal war on the "Saturday Night Special" back in the 80´s? This would mean they could define what that meant, whether it was a $10 handgun, or a $2,000 handgun, that was up to them. What it really meant was that poor people couldn´t own guns as they´d keep raising the bar until every handgun was a "Saturday Night Special."

Fast forward to 2012, and now the liberal mantra is "Assault Rifle", where again, they define the term as they go along. "Assault Rifle" could be defined as a black-powder musket, as American troops certainly used them for that purpose against British soldiers in the American War for Independence.

Molon Labe

#14, You and I and a few others must have missed the release of the Medical Examiner´s report which stated that all were killed with the rifle.

F´nSwine´s proposed law would not have prevented the Newtown killings. The killer killed the owner of the legally-purchased and registered firearms first.

the good news about a total firearms ban is that then, like in England, you will be able to purchase reasonably priced full auto guns. Just not legally....

I have a Taurus Judge, .410 with a number of .32 caliber shot in each along with .45 Colt ball can do more damage than a semi auto pistol.

Has anyone heard the audio from the police helicopter report that, immediately after the shooting, police reportedly saw officers remove the AR 15 from the shooter´s car trunk ? Does anyone know what calibre the spent shells in the school were ?