Gun enthusiast destroys AR15 with a sledgehammer

[NCTraveler]

(NBC News) One Southern California man is doing his small part to help end gun violence - by smashing his AR15 to pieces with a sledgehammer.

Chad Vachter is a gun owner and gun enthusiast from Riverside County.

His AR15 assault rifle was one of his most prized possessions, but Vachter says the growing number of mass shootings in the United States, including one last week in Rancho Tehama, have hit too close to home. He's had enough.

"I can't do it. I can't have something in my house that so easily could become a part of another situation like that, and I'm not going to be desensitized to it, I refuse to," Vachter says.

http://kfor.com/2017/11/20/would-you-do-this-gun-enthusiast-destroys-ar15-with-a-sledgehammer-and-wants-other-gun-owners-to-do-the-same/

[MattP]

1. Saw that on our Palm Springs news last week

[Hoyt]

2. That's what this country needs, more truly responsible gun owners. Not those gun-fanciers

who call themselves "responsible" while supporting this kind of crap.

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[ClarendonDem]

3. Yep

I prefer these - https://www.salon.com/2017/09/03/6-gun-groups-that-arent-for-white-right-wingers_partner/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. So many gun humpers have big guts

Seems to add credence to the claim they're compensating for other short comings.

[VOX]

6. These clowns are more into macho drag than the Village People.

Note that the goober to the left of battle flag is wearing a confederate kepi. The perfect chapeau for secessionist parties!

[geardaddy]

8. If these guys want to play soldier so bad

Why don't they just join up?

[VOX]

32. Precisely! Airdrop these bums into ISIS territory.

Let them live out their cosplay wet dreams.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. I know I'm not the first to say this, but

can you just imagine what would happen (and the outcry) if all these people were NOT white? I can. They would ALL be arrested and taken to jail for processing or worse. We live in upsidedown world now.

[Oneironaut]

26. So much cringe

“Maaaa! I’m going out to go play GI Joe with my friends!”

[Kingofalldems]

4. He's probably getting threatened by now.

[Takket]

7. i'm surprised coNRAgress hasn't made destroying a gun a crime yet

[Persondem]

42. In a certain sense it has already been done in AZ

In 2015 ...

"Arizona has passed a law making it illegal for cities to destroy guns bought in buy-back programs. The new law kicks in this summer, and requires cities to sell the guns that are turned in."

https://www.npr.org/2013/05/13/183538473/arizona-police-to-destroy-guns-before-law-changes

[Takket]

44. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????????????????

I was being sarcastic....................... how can that be real???????????????????????

[Persondem]

45. Nope. Sorry to say I am not kidding.

Until recently I had a couple of family members in Tucson and for years we would compare the idiocy of our respective state governments (I live in NC). This is one instance wherein AZ definitely outdid NC, though we make up for it in many other categories.

Kinda crazy huh? Cops take in guns to get them off the street then have to sell them back to the public. Of course they don't do buy backs anymore which was the intent of the law. Effing NRA.

[Thor_MN]

9. Do they have them properly decorated for the holiday season?

I hear camo is promoting a LBGTQ agenda, lacking xtian symbology, multiple colors, trying to blend in unnoticed?

[aikoaiko]

10. That's funny! I support his right to destroy his ARs and increase the value of mine.

Thank you, Chad!

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. I do NOT understand your post at all. Are you bragging about owning one?

If you are bragging about owning a WMD, then I can't say what I really think because it would most likely get me banned.

[aikoaiko]

15. Yes, I own several AR15s. I'm not bragging, I'm mocking Vachter's stunt.

Do you understand now?

[Ferrets are Cool]

47. Nope, not at all.

But nevermind. I doubt you would understand my thoughts either.
Go play with your WMDs.

[USALiberal]

17. Gunners love to brag about their guns. Just ignore them. n/t

[USALiberal]

16. FFS, I knew some gun owner would say something silly like this. n/t

[aikoaiko]

18. Yes a silly comment directed toward a silly stunt.

Really a ridiculous stunt.

[USALiberal]

22. At least you got to brag about your gun. n/t

[aikoaiko]

25. If you say so.

[hunter]

19. I'm looking at you...

[aikoaiko]

23. I don't blame you.

[hunter]

27. What are you going to do? Shoot me?

Piss on the second amendment. It's an ugly relic from the days slavery was constitutional.

[aikoaiko]

29. That's a weird thing to say.

[ClarendonDem]

33. Which other parts of the Constitution

Every bit of which was enacted when slavery was legal, do you want to piss on?

If you support gun restrictions, the 2d Amendment isn’t your problem. Popular opinion is though.

[hunter]

34. Gun fetishists live in a shrinking bubble.

That's why the gun industry spends so much money on politicians and advertising, doing their very best to sell those remaining fetishists increasingly absurd and dangerous guns.

[ClarendonDem]

35. Dont know who these

Gun fetishists are, but still wondering which parts of the Constitution you’d like to piss on, other than the 2d Amendment. The 4th Amendment? The 8th? The emoluments clause? What about the provision empowering Congress to grant letters of marque and reprisal?

[hunter]

38. Oh bother. Love your guns for now.

Someday reasonable people will prevail and disarm those who are not fit to own or carry guns.

I may or may not be talking about you and your guns, but my standards are high. I doubt I'd qualify most cops to carry guns.

[hunter]

36. Just the second amendment, thanks for asking.

An interim patch might be a much narrower interpretation of the "well regulated militia" part, like no, you don't get to keep anything capable of firing more than two quick shots in your home, no semi-automatics, not even any revolvers.

Banning lead bullets might be a good thing too.

I swear, the smoke of nitrocellulose smokeless powders and toxic lead seem to make frequent shooters a little weird.

Maybe they'd be better off with air guns and steel pellets.

Don't think I'm being sarcastic.

Gun love is a public health issue, just like syphilis or gonorrhea.

[ClarendonDem]

37. Ok, thanks for the response

And I agree that gun violence is a public health issue, though I imagine we disagree on the root cause of that violence.

[hunter]

39. Gangsters love their guns in my world.

Fourteen year olds with guns, and older people with the intellectual development of fourteen year olds. But that's like EVERYWHERE in the U.S.A., even among white non-gangster people.

[Persondem]

43. part of your post is not true

"Every bit of which [the Constitution] was enacted when slavery was legal."

13th amendment made slavery illegal so all parts of the Constitution added since then ....

And popular opinion is not his problem; popular opinion is firmly on his side (in supporting gun restrictions). http://www.pollingreport.com/guns.htm

[Hoyt]

20. Value of your lethal weapons "investment" might decrease if more people shun gun culture.

[aikoaiko]

21. I buy low and sell high. Gun controllers will try another AWB someday.

My $50 Anderson lower will sell for $350 if another AWB gets close.

You know it's true.

[Hoyt]

24. Must make you feel good to profit off lethal weapons.

[aikoaiko]

28. I collect different things and firearms have definitely paid off better than most collectibles.

Again, only because of gun control advocacy creating panic buying.

I suppose I should thank you, Hoyt.

[Hoyt]

31. Naw, please thank Paddock, Mateen, Roof, Zimmerman, Kelley, etc., for you good fortune. eom

[hunter]

30. That's disgusting.

[aikoaiko]

40. I know, right. Resale prices went through the roof in 2013. It disgusted a lot of people.

Took about two years to bottom out.

[hunter]

41. Har har har.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. id love to see them in a live fire exercise , id have whoops in my pants

[Iggo]

12. He's gonna get death threats. Guns are more important than people. (n/t)