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SYFROYH

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39. First step, is to repudiate gun bans. Once gun bans are off the table, there will be room to talk

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 06:36 PM

Apr 2021

The point is not to avoid all gun owners being angry just the reasonable middle.

Toomey-Manchin style background checks (with the friends and family clauses) will get more votes
Raising the age for semi-auto ownership to 21 or 24 might get enough votes, too.
Magazine bans over 33 might work because it only impacts a few owners and manufacturers.

I think those are the low-hanging fruit.

The NRA and the energized primary voters in many are fighting everything because too many gun controllers have said their real goal is to ban some classes of guns.

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Maybe a dumb question on Assault rifles [View all] bluestarone Apr 2021 OP

The suggestion that ammunition be highly taxed or made extremely expensive PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2021 #1

Well, frankly, if the targets of any new taxes are asked: dawg day Apr 2021 #7

It already extremely expensive if you can doc03 Apr 2021 #9

If you can afford a gun that shoots 200 rounds a minute it's not expensive enough. nt AndyS Apr 2021 #22

You would have to tax the components as well. Thomas Hurt Apr 2021 #2

Taxation is a power reserved to Congress sarisataka Apr 2021 #3

I remember a time not too long ago bluestarone Apr 2021 #4

All this would do is anger non-violent gun owners. SYFROYH Apr 2021 #5

Yea you're probably right! bluestarone Apr 2021 #6

Every gun control measure angers many non-violent gunowners. dawg day Apr 2021 #8

Which is why we should pursue something that has a chance of reducing deaths SYFROYH Apr 2021 #12

Open to suggestions then-- dawg day Apr 2021 #31

First step, is to repudiate gun bans. Once gun bans are off the table, there will be room to talk SYFROYH Apr 2021 #39

Disagree Sgent Apr 2021 #15

I'm saying this with all due respect... dawg day Apr 2021 #30

So I'm supposed to give a shit what gun owner want? That is so 1994 thinking. AndyS Apr 2021 #24

..., MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2021 #25

'Tis true. However I do have strong opinions about some topics. AndyS Apr 2021 #27

And others have strong opinions also, MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2021 #28

Back at'cha 🙂 AndyS Apr 2021 #33

Slow your roll there, Andy. I'm for more gun control, too. Just not this type. SYFROYH Apr 2021 #36

Assault rifles use a wide range of ammunition. Some are commonly used for hunting Kaleva Apr 2021 #10

Yea i mean the ones they use most bluestarone Apr 2021 #11

the more powerful rounds can kill humans much faster Kaleva Apr 2021 #16

Doesn't the .223 round have a larger grams of gunpowder bluestarone Apr 2021 #18

The advantages of the .223 is that they are are lighter and being less powerful , have little recoil Kaleva Apr 2021 #19

When I deployed to Vietnam MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2021 #20

I believe the Army is thinking of abandoning the 5.45X45 NATO round for something more powerful Kaleva Apr 2021 #43

That's what I heard also, MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2021 #44

TY. just thought the velosity speed of these type bullets bluestarone Apr 2021 #21

The high velocity is not particularly unique to those rounds DetroitLegalBeagle Apr 2021 #29

+100. nt MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2021 #32

No, the 223 has very little powder. sir pball Apr 2021 #41

Hunters are accustomed to one shot one kill. 'Assault weapon" shooter are accustomed to just spray AndyS Apr 2021 #26

Wish I could rec this, MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2021 #34

Strange bedfellows! AndyS Apr 2021 #35

I have no desire to own any firearms, I recently sold my Colt 1911 ACP because I just MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2021 #37

There is no unique assault weapon ammunition hack89 Apr 2021 #13

Yes i did hear this before. I forgot that BUT bluestarone Apr 2021 #14

They tend to fire the so-called intermediate ammunition. Kaleva Apr 2021 #17

It's not about the ammunition. Straw Man Apr 2021 #23

Might not be constitutional in the vein of Minneapolis Star v. Minnesota Comm'r Amishman Apr 2021 #38

Count on the gunsplainers to show up. Kingofalldems Apr 2021 #40

Taxing one type of ammunition will eventually mean having to tax them all. YMB Apr 2021 #42

Ammunition tax Crepuscular Apr 2021 #45

Exactly...if you outlawed whatever car was highest in DUI accidents it wouldn't effect the DUI count EX500rider Apr 2021 #46