Chris Christie Vetoes Proposed .50-Caliber Rifle Ban He Once Supported

[Jackpine Radical]

5. OK, I'm neither an escapee from the Gungeon nor a Christie apologist,

but these things are not exactly Saturday Night Specials. They weigh 30 lb & are pretty much useless except for two purposes: long-range target shooting and killing people out to about 2,000 yards (more than a mile!). They also cost close to $10k apiece, and the ammo for them is not exactly cheap.

Therefore they aren't the kind of weapon anyone would use in a holdup, a mass killing, or a bar fight. I imagine most of the people who own them are overweight Tea Party types who fantasize about paramilitary/militia nonsense, or maybe for the gun tower on their Ruby Ridge-style compound, but wouldn't be physically able to lug one of these things around to employ it for antisocial purposes without suffering cardiac consequences. They are, in other words, markers for excess testosterone but are kinda pointless.

Let the dumb shits put their money into crap like this if they want.