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Lawmakers in Georgia removed a $38 million tax exemption for jet fuel from tax-cut legislation on Thursday in a move that will punish Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines.
Republicans vowed to remove the exemption after the airline cut ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Georgia's Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle (R), who is also running for governor, had threatened to kill any tax legislation that benefits Delta after the company's decision to end a discount program for NRA members.
[...] "I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with @NRA," Angle tweeted earlier this week.
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 03 2018, @03:06PM (7 children)
Speaking of - twonks, did you say? - show me an "assault rifle" available to the general public. Show me, please. I'd kinda like to have that little selector switch. Manual - semi - auto. That's a cool thing. Of course, I never had a big magazine to feed a full auto burst. It would be fun just to go down to the quarry, squeeze that trigger, and watch as five or ten boxes of ammo tore a hole in the side of the hill. Well, it would fun to do a couple of times, anyway. I'm not into funding a lot of pointless nonsense. Things get expensive real fast when you're burning ammo at that rate.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @06:40PM (6 children)
Hey is there a legal definition that describes "assault rifle"?
I found the hard way that "firearm" can mean a "BB-gun" or "air rifle" and I was told it could even mean "sling shot". What's assault rifle mean on a state, county, and local township/city level, and what happens when they are not all the same? My "BB-gun" was classified as a firearm at a local municpal level and the book they threw at me hit pretty hard.
Firearms don't require fire, I learned... i have to think assault's don't require assault anymore either.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:08PM (5 children)
You're half right. There is no "legal definition" of assault rifle - and that is a huge part of the problem. But, the military commonly accepted use of the term includes full automatic fire, or at least 3-round bursts of automatic fire.
As for "firearm", in the United States, there is indeed a legal definition. No, BB-guns are not, nor are air rifles, and a sling shot is definitely out. What is more, a muzzle loading gun is exempt from the restrictions of a firearm.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/921 [cornell.edu]
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Sunday March 04 2018, @05:52AM (2 children)
Quoting wikipedia...
Under the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 the definition of "semiautomatic assault weapon" included specific semi-automatic firearm models by name, and other semi-automatic firearms that possessed two or more from a set certain features:[16]
Semi-automatic rifles able to accept detachable magazines and two or more of the following:
Folding or telescoping stock
Pistol grip
Bayonet mount
Flash suppressor, or threaded barrel designed to accommodate one
Grenade launcher
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 04 2018, @06:12AM (1 child)
I'm unsure - are you trying to establish that there is a legal definition of "assault weapon"? If so, good try. But, that particular definition was accepted by certain political partisans, in 1994 - and later rejected by the larger political body in the US. And, that definition is something of a hodge-podge of criteria, with certain brands and models listed, because there was no clear definition to identify an assault weapon.
Today, there is no legal definition of the beast that hoplophobes hope to find and kill. That makes the whole thing something of a snipe hunt.
And, LOL at "Grenade launcher".
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Sunday March 04 2018, @05:17PM
There is a new proposed definition here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5087/text [congress.gov]
It is dramatically more draconian, defining a semiautomatic assault weapon as any semiautomatic pistol with a removable magazine size greater than 10 rounds, semiauto shotguns with a magazine size greater than 5, and semiauto rifles based on a *single* cosmetic feature from a very familiar looking list.
This provides relevant context to the recent surge in NRA membership.
(Score: 2) by number11 on Sunday March 04 2018, @06:27AM (1 child)
There is no single definition. State and municipal laws may have other definitions. I have never heard of slingshots being considered firearms, but my municipality does consider air and BB guns firearms in their ordinance prohibiting discharge within city limits. And at least until recently, my state's laws also classed them as firearms. That was struck down by our supreme court in a case where a felon was found guilty of being in possession. But I don't know how wide-reaching the decision was. (They are still classed as "dangerous weapons".) I suspect that a felon found in possession of a muzzle-loader (which would include some revolvers) would not get off, though.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 04 2018, @08:41AM
US Code is the authoritative source of definitions for firearms, actually. Especially when we are considering gun control laws on the federal level. Other levels of government are often times permitted to have more stringent laws than the federal government, but in any conflict between laws, USC will have all of the deciding definitions, as well as superior authority.