Amid Minneapolis Aftermath, State Lawmaker Wants Irrelevant .50 Caliber Ban

It’s understandable that, in the wake of a mass shooting, people want answers. Lawmakers are expected by many to take action, to pass laws that are supposed to be a solution to the awful events that took place.

But what really happens is that many of those legislators are big believers in the whole “never let a good crisis go to waste” ethos and start trying to pass a whole slew of things that had absolutely no bearing on the event that sparked the outcry.

To some degree, we expect this.

But in Minnesota, one state representative wants to ban a particular kind of gun that has never been used in a mass shooting anywhere.

Minnesota state Sen. Zaynab Mohamed (DFL) is pushing a .50 caliber firearm ban in the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting in which a .50 cal was not used.

The .50 caliber ban is part of a larger gun control package.

The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) summarized the main controls being pushed:

• “Assault Weapons” ban
• Magazine ban
• .50 cal. ban
• Mandatory registry and fees for current owners [of banned firearms] and mandatory reporting of ownership to the police
• Ban on inheriting [banned firearms]

While I disagree vehemently with everything proposed here, the inclusion of .50 caliber firearms is particularly egregious.

The so-called assault weapon and magazine bans make sense, even if they’re blatantly wrong and an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of ordinary Americans. They at least “fit” what happened.

Mandatory registration and fees for current owners could, arguably, “fit” as well, though I fail to see how they’ll stop anyone from doing anything. Bans on inheriting the guns, again, won’t do anything, but I can see whatever passes for logic in anti-gun circles at work there.

Banning .50 caliber firearms, though?

While those are scary in a lot of ways to a lot of people, they’re generally too large and unwieldy to use for pretty much any crime you care to mention. Maybe something like a .50 AE Desert Eagle might pop up at a crime scene from time to time, but not that often.

This, however, is really just par for the course from anti-gunners.

Mohamed isn’t trying to prevent another mass shooting at a school with this. She’s trying to push through laws designed to gut the Second Amendment in Minnesota by pretending these kinds of weapons are some particular kind of threat, despite the lack of any evidence of them having been used as such anywhere in the United States.

This is what the gun control crowd does. They latch onto some awful event, make it about their preferred policies, ignoring literally any evidence you present that their proposals won’t do a damn thing, then push even more stupidity and call it “commonsense gun control.”

It’s not just wrong. It’s evil.

It’s infringing on the rights of law-abiding Americans, punishing an entire group of people who did nothing wrong, while ignoring literally any other factor that might have contributed to the attack.

This cannot be allowed to stand. Minnesotans need to step up and fight back, to let lawmakers know that they will not just sit back and watch their rights continue to be whittled away because of the actions of one deranged person.

If it passes, the challenges need to happen right away.

We can’t play “nice” on this one.

Editor’s Note: Radical leftists like Mohamed will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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