Sheila Jackson Lee Confuses AR-15 for 10 Moving Boxes and a Heavy Machine Gun
Poetrooper sends us this gem, which while pretty hilarious on its face, is actually quite scary that people so ignorant of firearms are passing legislation on them.
We all remember Tucker asking Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) about what a barrel shroud was, as it was on a list of banned items, and her answer of “That shoulder thing that goes up.”
One would hope the people elected to make laws would actually have a working knowledge of the subject at hand, and Rep. McCarthy is an outlier. Unfortunately that is not the case. Here’s few of the more memorable firearm gaffs-
1. The aforementioned up-going shoulder thing.
2. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) opines, “What’s the efficacy of banning these magazine clips? I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those know they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these ‘high capacity’ magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.”
3. Incendiary rounds are “heat seeking devices” from New York Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington. While discussing a proposed ban on .50 caliber rifles, she mistook incendiary rounds for heat-seeking ammunition. Which would be pretty cool if they actually existed.
4. “Shotgun Joe” Biden. Do I need to say more?
And 5. The infamous “Ghost Gun” incident, that California State Senator Kevin de León articulated that have the amazing ability “…with a 30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. 30 magazine clip within half a second,” he said.
And to add to the list, from the article:
By Stephen Green
Introducing her new gun control legislation, Congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) proved conclusively that she’s just too uninformed to go anywhere near the subject. She claims to have “held an AR-15 in my hand,” which weighed as much as “10 boxes that you might be moving.” She also claimed the rifle fired a .50 caliber round, and that “these kinds of bullets need to be licensed and do not need to be on the street.”
*sigh* Thanks Poe. I think. Read the rest of the article at PJ Media.com
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", 2020 Election, Gun Grabbing Fascists, Legal
Does she know the difference “Clip”per craft suits and magazines.
Reiterating what AW1Ed wrote along with the actual video of what Shelia Jackson Lee said. You can’t make this stuff up.
Thank You, Poetrooper for sharing.
“I held an AR-15 in my hand. I wish I hadn’t. It is as heavy as 10 boxes that you might be moving. And the bullet that is utilized, a .50 caliber, these kind of bullets need to be licensed and do not need to be on the street.”
Hmmm, stupid or a liar? I’ll go with both.
Isn’t she a democrat?
She is definitively both.
Concur on that.
Let’s not forget that the vast majority of Sheila Jackson-Lee’s District looks much like an impoverished third world hellhole. OH, and her last name Jackson-Lee? The names of CSA Generals, she ought to go through life perpetually “offended” at herself!
Maybe we should start addressing her as “Stoney-Bob!”
THAT would make Madame nutjob scream “Racist” while everyone else laughs at her!
With her “offensive” name of Jackson Lee, I’d like to know why she isn’t pounding on her desk and shrilly demanding that the government intervene immediately and take aggressive action to permanently remove her “offensive” image from public view.
If that .50 calibre modified AR-15 is available, I’d like to place a bid on it. I have to have something to keep the squirrels off my birdbath.
Fun as that would be, Ex, you’d have to be sitting on a substantial pile of cash to use a .50 as your squirrel gun.
Then again…can you put a price on happiness?
That gun on that rodent would be about as close to a Phaser on “disintegrate” as we can get in the 21st century.
I’d prefer to stick to .22 Shorts or a good .22 cal Air Rifle for Squirrels, a .50 Cal would not only vaporize them, it would also impact God-knows-where at least two miles away!
Yes, there are .50BMG AR platforms
Built on a gutted AR receiver, but is it really still an AR when it’s a single-shot bolt-action frankengun?
Since it’s all about the appearance of looking scary; Yes.
If you can afford one, its a hoot to fire.
http://www.alexanderarms.com/products/50-beowulf
Pretty sure the sound alone will have the squirrels vacating your area. 🙂
I built (assembled, really) an AR-15 based on the .50 Beowulf cartridge. Damn thing recoiled worse than my 300 Win Mag.
I have to wonder how long the receiver holds up with that much “oomph” bashing the steel takedown pins against the aluminum frame holes.
I would love to have a .50 cal variant of the AR-15. I am sure someone, somewhere has made one.
Why? Because it had not been done before.
I know Barrett’s recoil buffer is inspired by that of the AR, but Stoner borrowed that feature from the M1941 Johnson LMG. Aren’t .50s usually recoil-operated? I would think that an AR-style system, be it piston or DI, would be overgassed to hell and gone by a .50. Then again, I’m no engineer (well, I used to be, but not that kind of engineer). Has anyone tamed that particular beast with a gas system?
YES WE CAN! http://www.alexanderarms.com/products/50-beowulf
🙂
Because, why the hell not?
Yep. Cartridge has been around since 2001; not sure if the rifle was first produced that same year or not. But since the cartridge was supposedly developed for the rifle, I’d guess so.
‘Merica!
What is even sadder than Sheila Jackson Lee being an appearrent stupid liar, is the teh stoopid people that voted her into office. God save our Republic from the likes of both.
I want me some of that Ma Deuce Caliber on an AR Frame too! With some heat seeking bullets.
You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!
Another gem you could add to the list is when Beto O’Rourke told a crowd in Aurora, Colorado last week that he supports confiscation of AR-15s and AK-47s because owning one is just like having a bazooka.
Slightly OT: As an additional example of how stupid apparently never sleeps, Kevin “Ghost Gun” de León is now running for Los Angeles City Council after having term limited out as a state senator.
“30 Clip Magazine”? Oh yeah, this shit-for-brained assclown who talks like he was “edjumukayted” at UC Berzerkely:
Not to mention CNN’s “full semi-auto” howler:
And some color commentary on that video:
I guess she wanted to try to make Ojos-Locos look smart. She still failed.
I think she might have gone to the range with this guy:
HIS Dentist is gonna have enough for an EL Primo set of brand new golf clubs!
It’s always satisfying when stupid hurts as it should!
Nothing like watching someone break his own nose, eh?
I always jump up and down just before
squeezing the trigger.
Yeah. It’s like the moron knew something bad was about to happen. But he did it anyway. Which goes to show that you can’t fix stupid.
I want to know who it was that was pulling the “Sheila”‘s leg. It had to be one of the shoulder cannon makers, possibly Barrett.
I can hear the Aussies howling all the way up here.
BBC is NOT an AR-15 CongressPerson Lee.
When it comes to gun legislation, no one can out stupid DC.
https://wjla.com/news/local/councilmembers-discuss-gun-trafficking-after-recent-shootings
According to the link above, DC will enact red flag laws to seize firearms of those deemed to be a threat. Per the following links, legal gun restriction in the District is so onerous, that it is virtually impossible to legally own a firearm, and the number of people who are licensed to carry a firearm is probably less than 200 by now.
https://m.wikihow.com/Get-a-Gun-License-in-DC
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/guess-how-many-d-c-concealed-carry-permits-have-been-issued/
Not only that, they want to enact a law making “ghost guns”, which appears to be a firearm with a removed or obliterated serial number illegal, but it looks like that it is already illegal since 1934 at the federal level.
https://www.pennlago.com/are-firearms-without-serial-numbers-illegal/
Ironically, the other day Hack saw somewhere (maybe TAH?) that Democrats do not want to seize firearms under Red Flag laws for those listed in police databases of known gang members, since there is no due process to get listed.
This one landed Hack Stone in Moderator Jail for excessive use of links. Penalty is time served and a stern warning.
Hack did not want to be responsible for the missing link Sausage. Next time, Hack will use pattie sausages.
Ghost guns are made without serial numbers and are legal Weapons with defaced or removed serial numbers are illegal. Note that pre-GCA68, long guns were not required to have serial numbers, although manufacturers routinely did number them.
This is the same woman who thinks the Constitution is 400 years old; and wonders if the Mars Pathfinder was able to take a picture of the American flag that was left by astronauts… and said both North and South Vietnam have been able to live peacefully for several years.
I was going to mention these because these were on Book of Face yesterday and I had to Google it because I was in disbelief.
I am not a fan of Barbara Lee. A middle age white “liberal” expressing disdain for Rep. Lee ruffles the feathers of liberals I know. Especially the ones that also no how much I dislike Hillary Clinton.
But Rep. Lee puts he own personal agenda over the interests of her constituents and the public.
Also, she does not give a damn about veterans. Despite her rhetoric that she cares because her father was a veteran.
I suspect she lumps veterans into a category of predominantly demographics she sees as political opponents (majority white, mostly male, mostly conservative, mostly older) and thus does not see them as constituents.
As for her knowledge of firearms; welcome to American politics. The majority of Congress persons are damn near clueless on the majority of issues they legislate.
They go in with little knowledge of the issues and then don’t read the damn bills.
Donor and lobbyist support determines most outcomes. Hell, lobbyists write most of the bills then hand them off to their pet congress member to “sponsor” them.
Facts and voter preferences have little impact on legislation.
Whatever happens with respect to firearm legislation will have little to do with the facts.
The article is about Sheila Jackson Lee from Texas, not Barbara Lee from California.
Go back and read it again after you’ve had your Venti iced Ristretto 4-Pump, Sugar Free, Cinnamon, Dolce Soy Skinny Latte.
Oops. When I fact checked the original article I googled “Rep Lee on AR-15”.
Then read Sheila Jackson Lee’s comments. Verified she said the dumb shit the article claims. Then ended up reading Google search links about Rep. Barbara Lee. Getting frustrated. Read her voting record. Her and comments about Veteran issues. How they don’t match her record on Veterans issues.
Reflected on my experience when I contacted her office in 2013.
Then wrote a “disappointed constituent” email to her Congressional Office using her web portal.
And by the time a got back to this blog I forgot that I was originally searching about Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
It my defense if was around 4am here when this started and I have not stepped since yesterday.
Commissar:
It is so much easier to say “I was wrong and made a mistake.”
😉
Doing that would deprive him of the opportunity to act verbally like a rather famous kangaroo.
In most cases, the term “verbal diarrhea is metaphorical. In his, it’s literal.
This one?
How’d you ever guess? (smile)
I’m psychic, Hondo. Thought you knew that! 😉
I use the word “Oops” to say “I was wrong and made a mistake”.
I truly admire your resilience and trolling skillz.
Commissar would cry for free bread and then bitch that it wasn’t gluten-free!
Gluten-free bread is a human fucking right. People are dying!
Ninja,
that’s the perfect line to pin on most of the nailed Phonies,
AND (quite often) their pretender defenders.
Phonies don’t have the option to say “Oops.”
Here’s a handy little tool that Rep Jackson-Lee might want to invest in to close the distance between her foot and mouth:
5220-00-535-1217 Head Space & Timing Gage. .50 Cal, M2HBMG
And in keeping with the “Your Tax Dollars At Work” theme, the last price check from 2011 revealed that one of those little gems would cost you $229.00 if it came up “Missing/Lost”./smile
Oh, Claw, a simple sewing kit with a curved needle used for hand stitching leather pieces together will do just as well. Just be sure to use nylon thread. It’s unbreakable.
It has been obvious she isn’t very bright for years.
What is more concerning than her low level of knowledge about…well…anything…is the fact that she keeps getting reelected.
I’m amazed at the fact that politicians who do nothing at all for their constituent voters are able to be reelected over and over again.
What does that say about the average voter in such districts? I mean, the argument is the same for Pelosi, but at least she is delivering cheap labor for her wealthy socialite voters to exploit.
I’d suggest that she, like many dems in inner city districts, is a perfect representation of the voters in her district. They are just as stupid as those they elect, they just haven’t figured out how to legally capitalize on that stupidity the was Jackson-Lee and others have.
Because free shit.
Free shit good, Orange man bad!
For “social justice” or something!
She went full Sheila Jackson Lee.
Never go full Sheila Jackson Lee.
Sheila Jackson Lee?
Would that be this Sheila Jackson Lee that made these comments??
1) “And let’s think about moving into 2013, how we make this economy better by looking carefully at how we reform entitlements that are not handouts but they are earned.”
2) In response to allegations that there may have been fraud in the 2008 presidential elections, Lee brought race into play when she said the allegations probably started “maybe because we elected the first African American president.”
3) “This is not an idea of anyone over another person. Republican and Democratic Senators have already voted for this clean bill that we could vote on today. We have martial law. What that means – and my colleagues know what it means – is that you can put a bill on in just minutes.”
4) “Don’t you know who I am? I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered!”
5) “Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.”
6) “I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.”
7) “Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, ‘a transitional living fund.’ For that is what it is – for people to be able to live.”
It’s not her fault that she plays the part of a fool…..maybe the 1 gallon hat on her 10 gallon head is the cause of it all. (smile)
For what it’s worth, another black congresswoman who likes big cowboy hats is Frederica Wilson of Florida’s 24th District in Miami. Wilson apparently owns several hundred of the blinged-out chapeaux. She is also known for her involvment in the Trayvon Martin shooting in which she claimed, among other things, that Martin was a victim of racial profiling even though George Zimmerman was hispanic.
I have seen plenty of Hispanic people who are racist, specially against non-Hispanic blacks.
White pipple don’t have a monopoly on teh racisss.
Oh yes they do, according to everything said on Progda, the DNC’s propaganda orgs.
Yes Perry, I do remember Frederica.
The old saying “All hat, no cattle” fitting describes both of them…….maybe a bit more for Sheila Jackson Lee seeing as she is from Texas. (smile)
Also remember how the libs pressed the WHITE portion of Zimmerman, but never the Hispanic or African portion or his being of mixed race.
(His mother was born in Peru and has some African ancestry through her Afro-Peruvian maternal grandfather. His father is an American of German descent and a career military officer.)
well, Obama is black, despite his white mom…at least they are consistent. Sorta.
I hear people who are familiar with guns call a magazine a “clip” all the time around here, and they are not refering to the en-bloc feeding device for an M1 Garand which is legitimately called a “clip” – I got sick of correcting them so I just had to let it go.
Ah, evil “assault” with fully-automatic bullets in multi-round clips that shoot on full semi-auto… if Democrats weren’t so dangerous to our freedoms, they’d merely be entertaining (beside a hazard to themselves and anyone around them if they even went shooting at the range).
Clips. Clips. There is so much fodder in that….
I have a multipart round tub that holds a lot of stuff, and one compartment is dedicated to my large capacity clips, which measure about 2″ from nose to tail. There’s about 50 of them in that bin. Got them on sale.
There is so much fodder in this….
Within an hour of the “shoulder thing that goes up,” somebody had a helpful reference photo on the internet of…the Predator’s robot shoulder cannon.
That would be “that shoulder thing that goes up in the back,” the most deadly component of any semi-auto rifle. Them and those pistol grips have killed more people than Pol Pot or Stalin. That is why they were outlawed by the Geneva Convention. Thus, you never see them in a WWII movie or documentary. And when you kill people with an old fashioned wooden stock, like on an M-1 or a Springfield, the dead rest much easier in their graves.
The M-14 had a neat door that flipped
up in the back. You could store extra
bullets and cigarettes in there.
And if it was deployed during a fight
you could really fuck somebody up.
I’m willing to bet Rep Hank “Guam is going to tip over” Johnson D-GA, is one of her closest advisers on technical stuff
Hank said they need a bill barring those .50 cal AR ‘s from Guam to avoid them capsizing the island.
The recoil alone could change the latitude and longitude of the island. That could be a serious hazard to navigation.
One round into the ground and the whole island sinks. Unless they shoot another round into the ground so that water can drain out.
Remember when the Left would say “If you don’t have a uterus, you have no say in women’s reproductive rights”? How about if you don’t know even the basics of firearms, you can’t legislate it?
I’m reminded of the talking head on the news spewing forth about the insurgents using their semi-automatic AK-47’s.