Gun Control & RKBA

DonP

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7. Fat - Fucking - Chance

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 09:29 PM

Mar 2012

With 80 million gun owners, many of them former military, and a few hundred million firearms in private hands, who is going to go around collecting them?

A lot of keyboard commandos?

You're not the first poster here to propose that, just the most recent for now. All the others are long gone.

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Venezuelan Government Suspends Gun Imports and Sales for One Year [View all] Johnny Rico Mar 2012 OP

Seems like they are going to use a prefered gun grabbers control on Police ammo. oneshooter Mar 2012 #1

Tagged to see how our resident Hugo Chavez fans respond slackmaster Mar 2012 #2

Impossible for me not to support. Loudly Mar 2012 #4

I will bet you $10 this doesn't work. n/t PavePusher Mar 2012 #5

Let's enact it and see. Hoyt Mar 2012 #8

I have a better idea shadowrider Mar 2012 #36

Fat - Fucking - Chance DonP Mar 2012 #7

Sounds like you must not think many guns owners are law-abiding. Hoyt Mar 2012 #9

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Are you suggesting those fine law-abiding gun owners would shoot? Hoyt Mar 2012 #13

Post removed Post removed Mar 2012 #16

"They ain't sounding law-abiding to me" rl6214 Mar 2012 #17

See little need to waste the proper stuff on this topic. Hoyt Mar 2012 #23

Seem unable to is more like it. rl6214 Mar 2012 #78

This message was self-deleted by its author ellisonz Mar 2012 #18

Do you really think you can get this done... krispos42 Mar 2012 #70

Sooner or later, it will have to be tackled. Not good to have armed people ready to shoot law Hoyt Mar 2012 #72

Suuuuure it will. krispos42 Mar 2012 #75

They are not stupid laws, if the gun owners are ready to shoot people in a national emergency. Hoyt Mar 2012 #76

Yeah, because shooting at roving gangs of looters, rioters, and arsonists is a terrible idea. krispos42 Mar 2012 #77

The posters above would shoot law enforcers. If we had a nuclear situation here, the last thing we Hoyt Mar 2012 #79

What national emergency? krispos42 Mar 2012 #80

Not confiscation. That's not feasible. Loudly Mar 2012 #20

Are you going to ban garage-workshop CDC machines after that? PavePusher Mar 2012 #22

That would be illegal. But face it, gun culture doesn't give a rip about legalities. Hoyt Mar 2012 #24

Yep, and people using pot in my state pipoman Mar 2012 #28

I have a hard time comparing sick pot smokers to those that carry lethal weapons in public. Hoyt Mar 2012 #42

given that gejohnston Mar 2012 #52

As usual, you missed the target -- which is those on chemotherapy and medicinal marijuana. Hoyt Mar 2012 #53

A little off the mark there GE Starboard Tack Mar 2012 #58

actually, not at all. gejohnston Mar 2012 #60

Neither does pot culture krispos42 Mar 2012 #73

You mean the pot culture that simply gets high, doesn't own guns shadowrider Mar 2012 #74

Strictly controlled. Loudly Mar 2012 #25

You keep trying to equate steel, durable-for-centuries, pipoman Mar 2012 #29

You're mistaken about it being a civil liberty. Loudly Mar 2012 #31

Except of coarse pipoman Mar 2012 #33

It's unfortunate that you are not able to discuss this topic without stooping to personal attacks slackmaster Mar 2012 #40

Better he should feel sharp words in his hide than discharged rounds. Loudly Mar 2012 #43

You want to strictly control pressure-vessel technology and....steel? Callisto32 Mar 2012 #37

Strictly controlled by ARMED government employees slackmaster Mar 2012 #39

This appears to be from the school of thought Loudly Mar 2012 #46

Your assumption about my school of thought couldn't be more wrong. I guess that's your bias. slackmaster Mar 2012 #54

SharesUnited, is that you? n/t oneshooter Mar 2012 #59

Could you be any more transparent? beevul Mar 2012 #61

"The Civil War settled the question, and not in favor of an armed populace." PavePusher Mar 2012 #62

Yeah, 'cause everybody knows the 300million guns are made of meat pipoman Mar 2012 #27

Attrition? one-eyed fat man Mar 2012 #35

That would certainly raise prices and prevent poor people from being able to afford them slackmaster Mar 2012 #38

With minimum care firearms and ammo will last for generations ... spin Mar 2012 #55

I have firearmes from the late 1800's virginia mountainman Mar 2012 #69

I manufacture ammunition....As a hobby. virginia mountainman Mar 2012 #68

Need a marketing manager? shadowrider Mar 2012 #71

Looks like someone is planning for trouble looming on the horizon. Ikonoklast Mar 2012 #3

This reeks of crackdown. jeepnstein Mar 2012 #67

A question for people who advocate for natioanl gun registration in the US krispos42 Mar 2012 #6

Hmph. I guess the pro-registration people don't have gut feelings. n/t krispos42 Mar 2012 #65

Maybe that question deserves its own thread shadowrider Mar 2012 #66

Of course this does not apply to the Government arms purchases ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #10

We ought to try it in this country lastlib Mar 2012 #11

Never happen in this country. Clames Mar 2012 #14

Yeah!!!111! pipoman Mar 2012 #30

You go first slackmaster Mar 2012 #41

How do you suggest passing such a law in our nation? ... spin Mar 2012 #56

Now you see it, now you don't. Remmah2 Mar 2012 #15

was this actually accidental on your part??? iverglas Mar 2012 #19

if there is one, gejohnston Mar 2012 #26

Venezuela's full name is the 'Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela', petronius Mar 2012 #21

Huh. Learn something new every day.... Johnny Rico Mar 2012 #32

After Simon Bolivar... Common Sense Party Mar 2012 #34

First choke off the supply Broderick Mar 2012 #44

the reason is for what? gejohnston Mar 2012 #49

For what? Broderick Mar 2012 #51

On the note of an armed populace... Clames Mar 2012 #57

Behold! "Reasonable gun control!" Atypical Liberal Mar 2012 #45

Salivate I believe is an understatement shadowrider Mar 2012 #47

Just Ask the Experts. Gun Control Works !!! DWC Mar 2012 #48

I foresee a lucrative black market... Clames Mar 2012 #50

"...a laser code will be put on each bullet in order to identify it in the case of a crime." PavePusher Mar 2012 #63

Will the marking be put on the bullet before or after the burf Mar 2012 #64