Right exactly
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On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Scott Ritchey ritche...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Point of order: True assault rifles ARE machine guns. But AR-15
(auto-loading) rifles/carbines are not assault rifles (nor are they heavy
weapons as some insist).
This is like
OK fair enough, you may replace 'assault rifle' with...
Assault rifle _is_ an industry-recognized term, and with
rare exceptions in the USA _nobody_ can have one. The banners
coined the term assault weapon to apply to anything sufficiently
'scary' by their lights, and started using it heavily
Sorry, respectfully I must not agree.
The long description used below still ratchets the rhetoric to inflammatory
rather than fact.
The device is simply a rifle, nothing more, nothing less. To use any other
descriptive term for it engages in fear mongering, which, in it's self is a
continuation of
The M16 (and AR15 its civilian equivalent) gets shot out at 1000-2000 yards and
is considered pretty accurate.
The problem with assault rifle is what people really mean is scary rifle
and they want to define it by I dunno but I'll know when I see it so an
assault rifle ban means a ban on all
On Jan 17, 2013, at 10:35 AM, G Mann g2ma...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant...
-Off to practice cursing and find recipe for the eating of my young-
If you want to be on the Banned List, you need to sign up. It is very much like
how you signed up for this list.
Sign up here then.
Great ideas, but this is a VERY imperfect world. Very few of the people
meeting the criteria that the recent evil doers meet actually commit
violence. You catch and hold way too many to catch too few, and still don't
know who is dangerous and who isn't.
I suspect that it is true that the
This discussion takes me back to the 1930s when few ordinary city dwellers
could afford guns and the debate was about knives. Some wanted to make it a
crime to carry a pocket knife and others didn't. A compromise was finally
reached that permitted the carrying of pocket knives with blades no
Point of order: True assault rifles ARE machine guns. But AR-15
(auto-loading) rifles/carbines are not assault rifles (nor are they heavy
weapons as some insist).
This is like someone calling your 300TD a pickup truck because you can carry
stuff in the back.
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OK fair enough, you may replace 'assault rifle' with 'somewhat high
powered, semi automatic, self loading, large magazine capacity, similar
to military type, not particularly accurate at longer distance, popular
with preppers, type of rifle'
Hendrik
who is about to go out in the heat,
You forgot scary. They are also scary.
--R (who was once assaulted by a scary exploding demon Milwaukee drill
battery that decided to emit hydrogen and sparks inside its housing,
with a predictable consequence -- hence, an assault battery committing
assault and battery by battery)
On
More on this, I think the average low information person thinks assault riffles
are machine guns. I heard one of them on the radio talking about these guns
shooting 100 rounds a minute. Bzzt wrong
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On Jan 16, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Hendrik and fay heni...@gmail.com wrote:
OK
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