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kpete

(72,022 posts) Fri Jan 11, 2013, 08:06 PM Jan 2013

Regulated by whom?

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Regulated by whom? (Original Post) kpete Jan 2013 OP

Precisely - These Gun Owners Are Fooling No One But Themselves cantbeserious Jan 2013 #1

That's the part they leave out. Regulated by the government, meaning this militia would be Bluenorthwest Jan 2013 #2

cantbeserious

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1. Precisely - These Gun Owners Are Fooling No One But Themselves

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Fri Jan 11, 2013, 08:26 PM

Jan 2013

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Bluenorthwest

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2. That's the part they leave out. Regulated by the government, meaning this militia would be

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 09:30 PM

Jan 2013

under a chain of command ending at the President. The reason the NRA likes the phrase 'gun control' rather than 'gun regulation' is the fact that the word regulated is a major factor in the text of the Second Amendment.

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