Vette Jockey said:
Jim Miller said:
I am currently conducting an experiment here at home. I have a .357 Mag revolver in my safe and right beside it ammunition. I am waiting to see just how long it will take for that gun to load itself. It has been five years now and neither the gun or ammunition has moved. Conclusion? It is a people problem, not a gun problem. An inanimate gun, or any other object, is never the blame for anyone's death. The problem has to be solved by trying to control crime, not inanimate objects. When someone dies because of a drunken driver we don't blame the car. But, when someone is killed with any gun it becomes the guns' fault. Only liberals can think like that.
I've run that same test with a 1911 .45ACP. I got the same results and arrived at the same conclusion.
I am now almost 9 yrs (or is it 10, not real sure) into a similar test involving a 1911, except that this one is loaded, in Condition 1 carry mode, 8+1 rounds of Mayhem (I love those commercials) ready to make noise.
The only firearm to sew as much panic and panty-wadding abject terror in a liberal as the AR15 is the Cocked And Locked Government Model .45.
That gun doesn't even have to load itself, all it has to do is fling itself out of my holster and start shooting people (one would likely expect me first so I do not interfere in it's nefarious plans).
My employer would frown mightily if I carried at work, but I have other business to attend to often before and/or after work, so every afternoon it winds up in a security-patrolled parking lot (keeps car thievery down) in either a glovebox or a console (depends on vehicle), and similalrly, in all this time it has not seen fit to shoot the car/truck, the car or truck next door, or the person walking by between cars.
If it weren't for folks like Geraldo Rivera who plainly stated an AR15 'alters your personality' just from getting one into your fingers, I'd think this test fairly conclusive that It Isn't The Gun, but, I keep hearing things said by People Who Claim To Know (Ptttttt).
I'm certain his Depends would never survive my saying hello to him in a Stop-N-Rob if he knew about Ol' Loudmouf under my clothing. It would look like he just dropped his Mountain Dew Big Gulp in the floor, except no ice.
I am also no fan of the AR, 13 yrs hauling one around the world for the govt, shooting and cleaning the sum-beach constantly, but you folks who are willing to give the Gun Banners the AR, and the Bump Stock(an even bigger POS), and every aftermarket Timney/Geissele/and everyone else aftermarket trigger (for your dad's Remmy 700 bolt action and 200 others), they will, ABSOLUTELY WILL, come for your Stackbarrel eventually.
The most clear example in current weeks is the desire to "only ban Miltary Style Weapons".
Every firearms the world has ever seen (that was successful) was designed as a Military Arm.
Not just the A15/AR10/SR25.
The Garand, and every other semi-auto action in existence.
The Bolt Action (the Mosin Nagant, the Enfield, The Mauser, the 1903 Springfield, the Remmy 700, and ll their decendants).
The semi-auto shotgun.
The PUMP shotgun.
And, gloriously, the single shot AND double-barreled shotguns (all a Stackbarrel is is a SxS laid up on it's side).
Then there's the Revolver, followed by the self-loading pistol.
In some cases military sales to governments made the companies (large, successful sales allowing the companies to grow and develop more guns).
California is trying to pass (I fully expect the worst from Commiefornia (as well as New York/Jersey)) a law that requires background checks and waiting periods (and face-to-face-only sales) on "firearm precursors".
What is that?
Gun PARTS.
Not just receivers/frames, heavens no.
Barrels, triggers, stocks, bolts, hammers, springs, cylinders, choke tubes, magazines, and on and on.
Already done it on ammunition, at what point will they figure out that ammunition has "precursors" you & I buy?????
Is there REALLY a difference between a shotgun barrel and a length of steel pipe?
Eventually, they'll regulate or ban IT ALL, because they have clearly stated this as their final goal.
No.
We have given away too much already.
There is no legal product industry that is as heavily regulated/restricted as guns ALREADY.
No more.
NONE of the 20,000 gun laws already on the books do anything to 'make you safer', not any more than being effectively strip-searched to board an airplane these days makes you any "safer".
Some people buy into "security drama" though, and they are willing to let more and more of it take over too.
The government who people want to "protect" them, went to court a decade or more ago (likely closer to 2) in order to prove, legally, beyond any doubt, that The Government has absolutely ZERO legally binding requirement to "protect" anyone.
They won, US Supreme Court.
They DID admit to "having a job to do", and that 'job' is to show up after the carnage is all done, pick up the pieces, figure out who did it, and try to find them so they can be given a fair trial, if any laws were broken.
A guy in Tortonto Monday drove a rental van 13 blocks (or so, 1.4 kilometers) ON THE SIDEWALK, killing at least 10 people who couldn't get out of his way.
Was it The Van?
Can we get some Common Sense Van Controls?
Restrictions on powerful engines, restrictions on allowed fuel capacity, only allowed to rent 2 vans a year, only allowed 5 gal. of gas a week, universal background checks and 5-day waiting periods on all rentals and possession transfers. I could think up more on a whim.
Is it not already against the law to drive a van on the sidewalk?
Is it not already against the law to deliberately crash into/run over people with a van, particularly ON THE SIDEWALK?????
From the first hit to his arrest, when the van was stopped,, 26 MINUTES!!!!!!!!
When the delivery truck in Stockholm Sweeden rammed the Christmas Shoppers back in 2016, there was ACTUALLY a city legislator who proposed banning trucks in the city streets at any times when "people were likely to be out and about", basically 5AM-ish to 3AM-ish or so. They could deliver to businesses for that couple-hour overnight window.
This is the same idiot bunch who decided to give Gender Preference for snow removal that winter.
"More men drive than women, more women walk or bicycle. Thus, the sidewalks were cleared FIRST, and the streets LAST.
Google up the results.
"Gender Equal Snow Removal"
No, not a thing more for the Gun Banners, and in fact I want stuff BACK because of laws that do not work.