https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/01/25/gingrich-to-piers-morgan-lets-hold-gun-control-hearings-in-chicago/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 10:01:24 -0400<![CDATA[Twelve minutes long but worth watching in full, partly because Gingrich is in fine form and partly because it&#8217;s a nice demonstration of how futile and bad-faith the &#8220;debate&#8221; over guns is. Morgan&#8217;s point is straightforward: If gun-rights fans think it&#8217;s okay to ban machine guns because rapid-fire weapons are too dangerous for the public to own, why not ban assault rifles? Granted, automatics fire much more rapidly than semiautomatics, but you can still get off an awful lot of shots quickly with an AR-15 if you&#8217;re pulling the trigger fast enough. Gingrich comes at that logic from the other direction: If semiautomatic rifles are banworthy because you can fire rapidly in volume with them, why aren&#8217;t semiautomatic pistols also banworthy?]]>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:54:50 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/01/25/gingrich-to-piers-morgan-lets-hold-gun-control-hearings-in-chicago-n204247