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Virginia AG: ‘AR-15s Are Machine Guns Except That They’ Are Not

Democrats and the corporate media are notorious for deceiving Americans about their Second Amendment rights.

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Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, who fantasized about murdering his political opponent and wishing death upon the man’s children, thinks the most popular semiautomatic rifle on the market is the same thing as a machine gun.

Jones made his remarkable ignorance on guns and the Second Amendment known on Wednesday in the form of a brief to the Supreme Court, which is slated to weigh a challenge to an Illinois county’s ban on the possession and transfer of so-called “assault weapons”: AR-15s and similar semiautomatic firearms. In the document filed in support of Cook County’s firearm prohibitions, Jones argues that “AR-15s bear nearly all the same features that take machineguns outside the Second Amendment’s protection.”

He kicks off the brief by lying that AR-15s were restricted by states “since shortly after” they “became broadly available to American consumers.” Colt began selling ArmaLite’s semiautomatic rifle to Americans in the 1960s, but it wasn’t until 1989 that California sought to interfere in those transfers.

Jones also points to AR-15 restrictions in “11 states and the District of Columbia — collectively representing over 34 percent of the United States’ population” as proof that states like his can and should be allowed to dictate Americans’ Second Amendment right to own semiautomatic rifles.

Virginia lies in its opening sentence. AR15s were available in the 1960s and on to consumers, and the first ban didn't come until 1989 in California. Even by 2000, only seven states banned them. Today 12 do if you count Virginia's enjoined provision, but five of those came…........

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