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In reply to the discussion: 'No More Weapons!' billboard placed on US border [View all]boppers
(16,588 posts)62. You're talking about machine guns.
Not all weapons that are "automatic".
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Speaking of logic... is there a gun law on the books that we have not begun to enforce?
aikoaiko
Feb 2012
#67
"...Calderon supervised the destruction of more than 7,500 automatic rifles and handguns..."
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#2
Sorry, but in the technical (and legally VERY specific) language for firearms...
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#72
No, in the legal sense of the BATFE, who take a very dim view of unregistered automatic firearms.
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#86
You specifically mentioned hand-cranks. A hand-crank activated firearm is not classified...
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#107
Sure, put a person who lost their hand, and now has an "assist" arm, at the crank.
boppers
Feb 2012
#110
Facsinating how such "really big news" couldn't be bothered to have a picture.
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#4
We even got a picture of the sign/guns in the tulsa world newspaper this morning
madokie
Feb 2012
#66
This ongoing tragedy lies at the feet of the weapons industry, the weapons lobby,
baldguy
Feb 2012
#8
Which "responsable gun owners" can avoid by simply crossing an imaginary line on a map.
baldguy
Feb 2012
#30
FBI background checks, 1968 GCA, prohibited people, import restrictions, sales restrictions.....
Taitertots
Feb 2012
#118
"Interpreting the sign as an indication of shortage, US manufacturers raced to meet demand...."
Robb
Feb 2012
#10
7,500 automatic rifles could not possibly have been smuggled from the US into Mexico
slackmaster
Feb 2012
#18
Using the term "automatic" to describe a semi-automatic rifle is a cheap propaganda ploy
slackmaster
Feb 2012
#69
Using the term "automatic" to describe only a full-automatic rifle is a cheap propaganda ploy
boppers
Feb 2012
#75
For one thing it would represent about 75 MILLION dollars worth of firearms.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#47
"Auto" or "Semi-Auto" -- makes little difference. One can kill a lot of folks with either.
Hoyt
Feb 2012
#48
Actually it makes a world of difference if you're talking about where the weapons came from.
Kurska
Feb 2012
#51
It does when the narcos here are using full auto, grenades and rockrt launchers.nt
expatriate2mex
Feb 2012
#54
I beg your pardon but there is a huge distinction between semi-auto and full auto.
Lasher
Feb 2012
#55
but...but...but we have been told by Gun Luvers that thar ain't no gun running to Mexico
jpak
Feb 2012
#23
'Argument from authority' is acceptable if you agree with the authority?
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2012
#27
Yeah - them traceable serial numbers that go back to Texas gun shops is a gummit conspiracy!
jpak
Feb 2012
#39
or - more likely - the traceable serial numbers that go back to the Mexican military and police
DUIC
Feb 2012
#42
Bingo!!!! They are using full auto weapons plus grenades and rocket launchers here.
expatriate2mex
Feb 2012
#53
The weapons in question are automatic, there is no way in hell the majority of them came from
Kurska
Feb 2012
#50
More important than the price, you require a Federal Firearms License to buy or own one.
Lasher
Feb 2012
#56
Not true. We've been saying that gun restrictionists are fibbing about the amount of gun running.
aikoaiko
Feb 2012
#68
You mean things entering into Mexico, illegally, are causing issues down there?
Dreamer Tatum
Feb 2012
#25
What a pendejo! To do what he asks would mean to stop arming his Policía Federal.
aikoaiko
Feb 2012
#31
Perhaps Mexico could have provided a list of make/model/serial numbers of those guns.....
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#37
How diifficult is it to convert a semi-automatic AK-47 knock-off to full auto?
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2012
#97
I'm not sure over how many years, whether it's since 2005 or 2007 or what.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2012
#114