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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShame on Biden! Why would anyone want to ban 'assault weapons'?
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Kingofalldems
(38,419 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)so I could walk up to each one of these self-important assholes, take the WMD from their hands, bend the barrel and hand it back to them. Yes, I am aware that it's not a very "Superman" way to be, but it would feel good.
kirkuchiyo
(402 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)blm
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)You are soooooooooooooooooooooo right.
doc03
(35,293 posts)an assault weapon is. I think that argument could be solved by just banning high capacity magazines.
AndyS
(14,559 posts)ban the function that makes them so lethal, not some artificial description.
doc03
(35,293 posts)bagged many deer and other game without a semi auto.
sop
(10,090 posts)Trying to define an "assault weapon" by color, accessories, barrel length, materials, collapsible stock or whether they have that "tactical" look is pointless. One can get .223 cal. 30 rd. magazines for Ruger mini-14s, high capacity 12 Ga. shotguns or 33 rd. 9mm magazines for Glocks. All allow high rates of fire and quick reloads. The only thing that should matter is the potential lethality of the firearm.
SYFROYH
(34,161 posts)AndyS
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AndyS
(14,559 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)We don't need that junk on our streets.
SYFROYH
(34,161 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)ones fueling our gun problems.
Same ole junk from those trying to protect their gunz.
Kid Berwyn
(14,789 posts)Dont forget the ammosexuals.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)and they'd all scatter like cockroaches.
I'm happy to volunteer to fire that burst. I'm fifty-two, but I still know the M1 Abrams-series tank inside and out...
AndyS
(14,559 posts)M14, M16, M60, 1911 and the M2 tear gas dispenser. The M2 would do a job of them. Dispensed micro pulverized powder that gets into the skin, clothes, hair, and I swear most body cavities no matter how puckered.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)And helped my tank crew shoot a Superior score on Tank Table VIII.
The evidence for that is on my form DD-214, and pinned to the coat of my old Class A's wrapped in plastic in the back of my closet.
I don't need to prance around with a gun on my hip and an assault rifle in my hands.
AndyS
(14,559 posts)In 1971 I was scoring the annual qualification on the M16A1. The guy in the fighting hole watched the 400 meter target pop up and did nothing. Saw the 200 meter target pop up and lit a cigarette. When the 50 meter popped up he put out the cig and flipped the selector switch to 'auto'.
Then the 20 meter target popped up and he emptied the 20 round magazine (yeah, back then the standard mag was 20 rounds) in about 2 seconds.
The range officer came over and started yelling about single rounds only on range and yada yada until the guy in the hole interrupted him and said, "Sir, I've got 10 days left in this Man's army. Where I've been for the last year that guy at 400 meters can't hurt ya' but the one at 20 is going to do ya' some dirt . . ."
The Lt took the score sheet from me, marked him expert, gave it back to me and saluted the short timer.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)I can imagine the insouciant lack of fucks to give in anyone who came back from there to stateside Army bullshit.