Gun control discussion

[lizbud]

"Richard" is brimming with specious reasoning.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Agreed. When confronted with obvious truth about the gun culture in the good old USA, just change the subject.


ps. Thanks for sharing the article.

[lizbud]

Banning ALL guns will likely never happen in the USA. Banning the sale of all automatic, semi auto guns could happen.
What earthly reason could anyone have for owning a weapon whose purpose is to kill as many people/animals as possible
in the shortest amount of time? There was, for a short time, a ban on these kinds of guns & it was allowed to expire. Why?

[jackie]

Banning ALL guns will likely never happen in the USA. Banning the sale of all automatic, semi auto guns could happen.
What earthly reason could anyone have for owning a weapon whose purpose is to kill as many people/animals as possible
in the shortest amount of time? There was, for a short time, a ban on these kinds of guns & it was allowed to expire. Why?

I agree one hundred percent.

Someone will pop back up and restate that the Newtown killer used handguns, not semi automatics, but I think the American right to bear arms is outdated.

"guns don't kill people, people kill people". That may be true, but they sure make it easy to kill many people in a short amount of time.

Even if they banned the sale of all guns now, there are so many in circulation, it probably wouldn't make a dent.

[RICHARD]

Guns do not kill people, bullet do, unless you are pistol shipped to death?

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I can go to Dick's sporting goods, buy a semi automatic rifle, come home, go on the web and within a few days, have the parts to convert it to an full rock and roll gun.

I just typed in a phrase on the websearcher thing and came back with 525,000 hits for ways to fix my gun to shoot like an MG.

I could also buy 15-30 round mags or a kit to convert a gun to use those mags.

The conversion kits are legal.


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So,
We limit large mags and assault rifles.

You get an idiot that will show up with a 9mm pistol, that shoots 13 rounds, he pulls out another 13 shooter, then pull out a ANOTHER pistol - even a small .32 cal gun has 8 rounds.

That's 32 rounds w/o having to reload.

So while I am trying to become one with the tile floor, he's going to have time to reload at least one gun, shoot another 13 rounds.

There's 45 shots, not counting the rifle he may have been carrying and depending on how many shots that gun is capable of?

An idiot with the drive, hatred and means, can carry a small lethal arsenal.

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Who was the joker that shot up the island overseas?

Or did we forget that incident.

[Lady's Human]

Actually, Richard, anyone selling parts to convert a semi-auto to FA to unlicensed people is breaking a few federal laws.

In addition, to meet Federal requirements for sale, a semi atuo is supposed to require more than 8 hours of work by a competent (read: Skilled) gunsmith to convert to full auto, and no competent gunsmith is going to touch any work of the sort.

[RICHARD]

Actually, Richard, anyone selling parts to convert a semi-auto to FA to unlicensed people is breaking a few federal laws.

In addition, to meet Federal requirements for sale, a semi atuo is supposed to require more than 8 hours of work by a competent (read: Skilled) gunsmith to convert to full auto, and no competent gunsmith is going to touch any work of the sort.

Thanks for the clarification.

I grew up in the barrio, where full auto meant two things, A machine gun or a station wagon filled with my people.
I was offered full auto guns, to purchase, a few times.

No one offered receipts, asked questions or asked for ID.

So, I am a little stupid when it comes to stuff like that?



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Another miracle of 'mexican know how' was a zip gun.


You could take a car antenna, rubber bands and a little time to make a very lethal .22 caliber one-shot, gun.

Lethal because the bullet tumbles right after it's shot, just like an AR.

I also saw a machined ZG, made from billet steel, that was absolutely a work of art.