Like father, like son

Joseph N. DiStefano has an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about gubs and politics:

While Vice President Joe Biden has been wrestling with National Rifle Association lobbyists over new US gun policies, his son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, has joined with Governor Jack Markell to propose banning sales or ownership of "military style" rifles.
Those guns would include the Bushmaster AR-15 that was used to kill twenty children and six staffers in an attack at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut last month.
The state proposals, backed by police and church leaders, would also ban sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines, require background checks for private gun sales, force reporting of lost and stolen firearms, and ban guns within a thousand feet of a school.
Markell's and Biden's offices could not immediately say how their proposals are likely to affect Cabela's Inc.'s plan to build a hundred-thousand-square-foot store on I-95, near Delaware's Christiana Mall. That's where Cabela's hopes to sell large quantities of guns, ammo, and cammies free of sales taxes to buyers from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other East Coast towns.
Markell's office did not notify Cabela's officials before the gun-policy statement was issued. "As a father, a veteran and the state's top law-enforcement officer, I know that military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips, designed for battle, have no place on our streets," the younger Biden said in a statement. "These proposals are a reasonable and sensible approach that will improve public safety and respect the Second Amendment," guaranteeing gun owners' rights.
Representatives of Cabela's, one of several gun-dependent retailers whose share prices fell despite higher sales after the Newtown murders, did not respond to requests for comment.

Rico says they would be Joe and Beau, of course; classic... But Rico and his friend Gus will be spending some money on (cowboy) gubs at Cabela's soon. (And what the hell is a 'military-style' rifle? Whose military? When? Try banning, say, an M-1 carbine if you want to hear screaming...)