{"id":4188,"date":"2015-01-16T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2015-01-16T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:12:24","slug":"so-assault-weapon-laws-arent-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4188","title":{"rendered":"So&#8230; assault weapon laws aren&#8217;t new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you guys didn&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m a pretty big fan of knives, swords, and other weapons that predate the gun.\u00a0 As such, one of the Youtube folks I watch is Lindybeige, and came across this video on the Messer:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XcLcsvw8rw0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>The part I found interesting is right at the beginning of the video.\u00a0 Apparently, it was illegal in Germany for most people to wander the streets with a sword.\u00a0 Not terribly surprising.\u00a0 What was surprising to me was that apparently the Germans had defined a sword in such a way that the messer was, legally speaking, not a sword.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 It hand a knife handle on it instead of a sword hilt.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else instantly make the connection to the modern assault weapons bans where one rifle is ok because it has a traditional rifle grip on it, but another is evil because it has a pistol grip?\u00a0 Or better yet, my Beretta Cx4 that has a &#8220;thumb hole grip&#8221; that I can stick my entire hand through, and isn&#8217;t a pistol grip because of a thin piece of plastic?<\/p>\n<p>Yep&#8230; making things illegal because they&#8217;re scary looking\/designed for the military has been going on for centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you guys didn&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m a pretty big fan of knives, swords, and other weapons that predate the gun.\u00a0 As such, one of the Youtube folks I watch is Lindybeige, and came across this video on the Messer: [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XcLcsvw8rw0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315] The part I found interesting is right at the beginning of the video.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}