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In reply to the discussion: NRA President: The AR-15, Which Can Fire 700 Rounds Per Minute, Is The ‘Musket Of Today’ [View all]SQUEE
(1,315 posts)78. I have often and clearly stated the NRA has no bearing on meor my views.
And I find them as FOS as the other side.
The entire argument is deflection, as is the printing press vs internet argument.
But if you insist, as long as the Constitution is an ever changing and growing basis of out system of governance, then yes what he says is true, the two are equitable in terms of usage, actually, by his argument, I should have an M4, or SAW, and the Military would have ARs. Remember the Kentucky rifle was technologically superior to the smoothbore carried by the British regulars.. So again a silly argument on it's face
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NRA President: The AR-15, Which Can Fire 700 Rounds Per Minute, Is The ‘Musket Of Today’ [View all]
Report1212
Feb 2013
OP
Thanks For Sharing. Keep Up The Valuable Work, Don't Let Anybody Hold You Back. (nt)
Paladin
Feb 2013
#16
Sorry, but until you provide something, anything, to back up your rather interesting "opinion"....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#18
Ahhh, so the hyperbole is blowing a person "to bits" when all it does is kill them.
EOTE
Feb 2013
#32
Then you should understand that it makes no difference whether a gun tears one to pieces
EOTE
Feb 2013
#40
The gun nuts are the ones playing stupid semantic arguments when lives are on the line.
EOTE
Feb 2013
#47
i hope we take away your 'right' to automatic weapons and large capacity clips....i hope.
spanone
Feb 2013
#54
oh give it up its the same damn post every time ^^ this one is slightly more offensive
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#174
didn't like that surprise, huh?? my objection is mainly your bloviating
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#196
you aren't good at avoiding questions- i did reply to post #57, still wondering what you mean?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#199
Many prohibitionists seem to have little concern about violence just a focus
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#132
We're talking about multiple wounds in 6 and 7 year old children, to include....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#31
A child hit 11 times by .223 rounds producing 2-inch+ wound channels is a child...
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#65
I'd rather not clutter my PM inbox with stuff that can't be discussed on this board,....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#75
I gave YOU what you asked, again in respect to this board, I will not post links to firearms sites..
SQUEE
Feb 2013
#80
No, I'm not going to be bothered by a PM that contains info that can just as easily....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#88
No thanks...I won't be buying anything that can't be linked in this thread. nt.
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#85
Well, here is a thread to peruse (among many re: M-16/15 "tumbling" rounds):
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#117
Hydrostatic shock is discussed in the knock-down effects of big-game rounds...
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#82
But, we're not talking about deer in this thread, are we? Since you and a few others insist.....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#93
Hit once in "equivalent" places with equivalent bullets, I don't know. Deer may run further.
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#110
Not interested in bits, but the technology in the First is far more specific than in the Second.
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#70
That's kind of like saying that because someone ran a 4 minute mile, they could run a marathon...
JVS
Feb 2013
#83
OK, it's only about 50 rounds a minute. I guess that makes it no more lethal than Daisy Red Ryder.
Hoyt
Feb 2013
#12
Absurd it is. He also forgot this is 200± years later. Most of us have become more civilized.
Hoyt
Feb 2013
#20
Because they break. All the time. The Aurora shooter had one, and that ended up saving lives
Recursion
Feb 2013
#151
"And more than a few dozen rounds fired in a single burst damages the weapon."
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#134
i didn't give a time period. i don'r care if it happens in 10 months or 10 years, as long as it
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#141
sure, hypothetically. but 5 is, of course, unrealisticly low. 5,000 a year sounds good, too
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#161
no but guns do. why would a sane person just give assault weapons a pass+reg. the other guns?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#163
yup, you don't NEED to own one either, so melt 'em all down- plastic crap. so are you
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#167
bullshit its an easily convertable 'assault pistol',and it is on the new AWB list where it should be
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#171
really? you are blathering about hurricanes, but not paid by the NRA to repeat such silliness?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#164
I'm sure you can find remedial reading comprehension tutors on google. nt
HooptieWagon
Feb 2013
#170
yes but they still won't be able to explain what the hurricane/gun connection is
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#172
When my state (or Congress) codifies the need for me to show up with a weapon, and
jmg257
Feb 2013
#27
The NRA talking heads are just doing their job, representing the gun manufacturing industry
AndyA
Feb 2013
#28
The American machine gun of WWII fired about 500 rounds per minute, if memory is correct,
indepat
Feb 2013
#56
Yep...hunting rifles and rifle-muskets were reserved for light infantry units who ....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#100
I don't know about "reserved." Rifles were the chief weapon of the militia and frontiersmen.
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#105
This assumes that all those who were in the militia got arms from the governor, not traders.
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#131
i'd think you might try and post a line or two of this 'interpretation' of 'yours'
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#115
This stuff has been here many times. Check archives. I can't understand your cryptic...
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#118
well if you can't understand the definition of the word from the dictionary...
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#125
Fat Tony says the Constitution is "dead". That means the 2nd only applies to muskets. Sorry.
kestrel91316
Feb 2013
#89
Fat Tony thinks the 2nd permits every person to carry what an infantryman carries
Peregrine
Feb 2013
#133
whatever, it costs $200-$300,you've already blown all the money on a cheesy gun, what's $2-300 more?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#184
"We're dealing with the Democratic Party's version of ignorant teabaggers."
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#204
And megaton nuke warheads are just today trebuchet, catapult... what the big deal?
JackN415
Feb 2013
#155