Friday morning’s Fox and Friends saw Tucker Carlson interviewing Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), a fierce advocate for stricter gun laws. The two began their discussion about the recent Democratic Party sit-in, and eventually shifted to the Democrat’s recent proposal for an assault weapons ban. Cicilline listed the components of a weapon that made it an “assault weapon” but had no idea of the function of what he wants to ban.

According to Cicilline, a barrel shroud is one of the elements that make a rifle an assault weapon, but when pressed he kept evading the question about what a barrel shroud does (a barrel shroud is a safety feature which slips over that the barrel of a gun to prevent the person handling the weapon from burning their hand on a hot barrel).

There is no real logic behind the Democrats aversion to barrel shroud which keeps a barrel cool enough for a shooter to grip and better control their firearm—perhaps it’s because they want people to recklessly spray bullets all over the place because the gun barrel is too hot to handle.

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Call me crazy, but don’t you think that someone pushing to ban some fire-arms should know what they are banning?

Here’s the truth, like many in his party Congressman David Cicilline wants to ban assault weapons because it sounds good in a political campaign, not because it will prevent terrorists from obtaining the weapons they need to commit mass murder. In fact when Carlson points out that none of the anti-Second Amendment bills proposed by the Democrats would have prevented the recent terrorist, or other mass shooting attacks, Cicilline responds that it doesn’t matter.

The Democrats are exploiting a terrorist attack to score political points which sound good but will only hurt law abiding Americans. Shame on them!

Below is the four-minute Tucker Carlson/David Cicilline segment: