Comments by "gary K" (@garyK.45ACP) on "The USAS-12: A Shotgun So Crazy, It's Kinda Illegal" video.

  1. BTW, Lloyd Bentsen was a Texan, a Democrat, and a conservative one for the time. He defeated Yarborough for the Senate seat. Yarborough was a liberal Democrat. (at the time Texas was a 100% Democrat state and strictly banned the carrying of handguns, there was no LTC) Bentsen won his Senate seat in 1970 because he opposed the Vietnam war AND the Voting Rights Act, which Yarborough had supported. In a strange coincidence, Bentsen was able to run for both the VP and reelection in the Senate in 1988. Texas had changed the law allowing that, but Bentsen was "grandfathered" as he had been elected before the law change. He lost as Dukakis' VP but won reelection to his Senate seat. Clinton chose him as Treasury Secretary in 1993. In case you think "banning the ATF" would eliminate gun control, Lloyd Bentsen was Secretary of the Treasury when this shotgun was reclassified as a destructive device. At the time, the Treasury Dept./ATF controlled such things. Now it's the DOJ/ATF. If the ATF is "banned", the name will change on the building and not much else. The problem is the LAWS, not the agencies. The agencies are a symptom. BTW, any President since 1993 could have reversed the rule making this shotgun a "destructive device" by Executive order.
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