The question of which outlet gun-control groups like Everytown, Giffords, and Brady United hate the most doesn’t often cross the minds of gun owners, but The New York Times may have moved up that list with an article the outlet published Wednesday.
Why would The New York Times make it on Michael Bloomberg’s s**t list? Why might Democrat Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and other anti-Second Amendment politicians be throwing the Old Gray Lady across the room in frustration?
Well, the article The New York Times published was on the decline in popularity of modern semiautomatic rifles that superficially resemble the AK-47 family of assault rifles.
You would think that would make someone like Schumer, who repeatedly invoked the AK to scare voters into supporting that 1994 “assault weapons” ban he and the late Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein rammed through Congress, happy, especially in this day and age where Russia is a designated villain, but not so fast.
The problem is that the article creates a few new hurdles for Schumer and other would-be gun banners. For starters, it acknowledges that the semiautomatic AK-style rifles were once “ubiquitous” — that’s a fancy Acela Corridor word for “common” — until the AR-15 established its dominance among the American civilian market, which creates a big problem for those who want to ban them.
I don’t recall a time when civilian versions of AKs were more present than civilian versions of ARs.
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