Fascist BHO increases barriers to guns for the good guys
this is becoming annoying. . I gave a gun away,
after doing my own background check on the giftee
for 6 years. . it is sad to think that it's now illegal. -- j
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after doing my own background check on the giftee
for 6 years. . it is sad to think that it's now illegal. -- j
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Sad to think those thousands that fought and died during WW2 apparently did so in vain, as we are now emulating those we had (at the cost of many lives) vanquished...
Why do I keep thinking, when I hear of the dictatorial actions of the dotgov (like this), of one Cuffy Meigs? Too bad they can't be put at the controls of a project X with all the levers and a bottle of rotgut bourbon in front of them...
Dems are complete fools, just because they were way to "above" doing anything in shop class in high school doesn't mean that no one else took the time to learn... I spend my days designing cyber security solutions for government and Fortune 500... but playing with my mig welder on the weekends is one of my favorite things to do, building trailers, wrought iron fences, etc... building a firearm is completely within my skills and tools/materials at hand. I've built a half-dozen AR-15's and AK's buying the parts to do so (rather than fabricating from scratch). AR's are very easy to build, it's why they are so popular, and the patents all expired on the original design along with being "America's Gun"... no collection is 'anything' without at least an AR in it somewhere. Do I like to shoot the things? not particularly, I have a few carbines that are far more accurate, and if I really wanted to hurt something, my M1 Garand or my .308 are the ones I reach for... not the '22' with a little more distance to it (most AR-15s are only a .223 caliber, not even legal for deer hunting in most states - lacks the take-down power for a certain kill). The media thinks they are 'assault weapons'. Whatever. Ban them, I'll just start buying Tracking Point rifles that can hit a moving target at 3 miles off without even looking through the scope.
That fits well within the plan as well - keep the people stupid and unskilled (if you want an example, reference "Common Corpse") and they won't be smart enough to rise above their masters. It's a technique used by purveyors of chattel slaves as well... a smart slave is dangerous; an ignorant and uneducated one will work because they don't know they can be free.
I was astounded to read this story in my free weekly. A badguy entered a Gulf station about 3 miles from my house. Rural location but not terribly far from towns with their own police force, but 911 goes to a dispatcher in another part of the state and you're usually put on hold and forwarded to the proper state police barracks. Badguy pulls out a knife and wants the contents of the till. Clerk pulls a shotgun from under the counter and politely declines to open the drawer. Badguy leaves a brown trail while exiting the establishment and was arrested shortly thereafter. I am absolutely astounded that there was a shotgun behind the counter. I go in there often enough, the clerks are pleasant and usually helpful but not MIT graduates. I've never seen the owner there. Would you leave a dangerous weapon behind the counter of your gas station for minimum wage clerks to possibly mishandle? Great outcome, still shocked by the facts.
And now Germany is telling women to stay at an arms length from their rapist and not wear "provacative" clothing...
Then again...
From the Beatles movie, Help! (1965)
"MIT was after me, you know. Wanted me to rule the world for them."
Victor Spinetti as Professor Foot
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Q: What is your opinion of gun control laws?
A: I do not know enough about it to have an opinion, except to say that it is not of primary importance. Forbidding guns or registering them is not going to stop criminals from having them; nor is it a great threat to the private, non-criminal citizen if he has to register the fact that he has a gun. It is not an important issue, unless you're ready to begin a private uprising right now, which isn't very practical. [Ford Hall Forum, 1971]
Q: What's your attitude toward gun control?
A: It is a complex, technical issue in the philosophy of law. Handguns are instruments for killing people -- they are not carried for hunting animals -- and you have no right to kill people. You do have the right to self-defense, however. I don't know how the issue is going to be resolved to protect you without giving you the privilege to kill people at whim.
[Ford Hall Forum, 1973]
the guns in the nation is dangerous. . it invites their meddling
in the population's self-defense ... against the government. -- j
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Here's one for you... when I was in High School, most everyone (meaning students and teachers) had a gun rack in their vehicle, and (especially during hunting season) they were not empty. We used to have a target range at school, and both a target team and a ROTC section. Yet, with ALL those firearms around, all OVER the place... we NEVER had school violence, let alone an incident involving said firearms. Not once.
Then again, back then we were raised differently - generally by a parent or parents who were involved in their kids life, we were raised not only that life was a thing to be respected, but our minds never went to the idea that doing something that disrespectful and antisocial would be, I don't know, tolerated?
People talk about how GUNS created situations like Columbine, where the truth is those bringing up those kids, and the system they were (and are) raised in, created the situation in the first place.
We also had the 'road hunting' for grouse & pheasant... who wants to walk aimlessly through a field when you can just roll down a logging road, see one, step out and pop it... not a public roadway, so not necessarily illegal to do. Keeping a shotgun on the rack during bird season was just normal, but I'll diverge in saying no one kept rifles, as Minnesota was very strict on shining/poaching/etc. I'm also a conservationist at heart, I don't care if I ever shoot anything or not, I like the time in nature with the dog and I'm a firm believer in resource management of game animals as well as predators... the licenses are issued based on population estimates, and what the environment can support, and that surplus is what should be hunted - it keeps the overall population more healthy because all of them will be well fed and sheltered, versus mass starvation if the numbers are too high.
Wild boar hunting is another case where keeping a side arm isn't a bad idea.
respect for guns. . he passed it on to me and my sister,
training us to handle the few guns we had very carefully.
families are essential to the health of a culture, in my
humble opinion, and this is a perfect example. -- j
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Hunting on the logging roads in Maine's north woods... Good times! There is nothing to compare with partridge fried in lots of butter in a giant cast iron skillet on the wood burning cook stove at camp. Me, my dad and my grandparents in a log cabin they built with their own hands, no electricity, those were some of the best times of my life. Now the camp is mine and I still love it there. I'd give $5.00 to spend another night with my grandparents listening to the rain on the new metal roof I put on last fall. My grandmother loved to listen to the rain, but if there was thunder she'd hide under the covers! She wasn't the least bit afraid of meeting a bear in the woods, skinning a deer or chopping wood, but thunder sent her diving under the quilt!
In her comments, however, I see a reflection of the attitude of the general public...and for the same reason...a lack of knowledge on the subject.
If debates, on subjects like this, could be restricted to those with extensive insight on the matter, I think we would be far better off. Unfortunately, that's not how you get things to go your way, if you're a Liberal.
She had tremendous incite into economic realities of too much government, and accurately foretold that at some point, people will just give up and leave. I support her policies on that... but Americans are the only people that routinely shed blood and treasure for the safety and liberty of others, our heritage is very unique. Hispanic immigrants, Russians, etc., don't really understand that concept because they don't share that history. They are used to being conquered and a defeated people, rather than liberated.
The same thing I often say about civilian impression of the US armed forces... I served for 8 years, we only "struggle" with stuff in the Middle East because politically we always want it to seem like a fair fight or something. We can finish any conflict around the world, many of them at the same time, any time we had the national will to do so. I was also a military intelligence specialist, focused on pre-Wall Soviet military, we were never afraid of them either... it drummed up good support for military budgets, but if a typical Russian soldier went out to get in a tank, it had a 50/50 chance of starting. If he actually got it to run, it had about a 30 mile range on it's full fuel load. If they had a train following them to refuel their 250 gallon diesel tanks with fuel every 30 miles, the gun couldn't shoot while moving, in fact, they needed to setup and "plant", taking 15 seconds or so, to select a target and fire. An M1 Abrams could shoot on the move, up to 50 miles per hour, and was accurate at 3000 yards doing that, while also having 1500 jet turbine horsepower and getting about 10 times the fuel economy, and can target and lock on day or night. A land war in Europe really would have been a joke, and the Russians knew it.
The Russians are about 20 to 30 years behind us in stealth technology...
So having been born into a people that literally threw 4 out of 5 soldiers at the German army in Stalingrad without a rifle, or maybe had a rifle but no bullets for it, only to force the Germans to exhaust their own ammunition, is something that is completely alien to US military thinking..
The Soviets lost 20 million people in WW2, we lost about 450,000.
Private gun ownership in the US has never been a problem because we cherish life... Our problem hasn't been the supposed "rise of gun violence" - which is actually down 58% since 1993... the problem is the breakdown of the family and the loss of values in the inner cities... If you don't respect life, you don't respect what that firearm can do to take it.
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I also think she misspoke when she said, "... issue is going to be resolved to protect you without giving you the privilege to kill people at whim."
Nobody is granting anyone any such privilege. They may be granted the ability, but certainly not the privilege. That's a curious thing because she was more careful with language than anyone else I've heard.
However, I purchased certain of my sport tools with the realization that criminals might choose to cause me grief, and worse, that I can not trust my government.
Great way to create the environment for his brand of Socialist fascism! He has a plan.....for that you can be sure!
The conservatives should open ridicule his behavior as unhelpful, spiteful, illegal, nonsense that it is, and make him out to be a spoiled, narcissist rat (that he is). "Oh, the king is dissatisfied with his dessert, and is throwing food...poor baby"
We should not get upset publicly. It shows we acknowledge his power. We should treat it like a fly to be swatted, and then paint Hillary as the same big baby with the same fascist intentions.
Incidentally, it's not even reaching the existing state-level restrictions we have here in the People's Republic of California.
Although our socialist local Sacramento TV station actually did point out that gun sales are up 500% per year since Obama took office, and Californians have more firearms than the next 3 states combined... around 45 million or so, or more than every man, woman, and child in California.
I actually have a Curio & Relic FFL of my own, I can't ship to myself in California, CA DoJ did away with that years ago...
Some knucklehead called into Tom Sullivan's radio show yesterday trying to say that "you can buy a bazooka with a Curio & Relic license"... Really? Well, maybe, if you have about the $100,000 it would go for laying around, and the ammo would violate 1500 ATF regs & laws, so you wouldn't actually be able to load the thing... Every now and then I see a pre-ban fully auto Browning BAR or something, but those are always $50,000 minimum.
That's not the corner thug in Chicago buying this stuff, if they could pass the finger prints & background check to get a C&R or whatever. Federal law doesn't "trump" state law in this regard, the more restrictive of the two will be the superseding.
I can't go to Nevada and buy a rifle over the counter, the ID you present (has to be a driver license or passport showing your home address) the FFL has to abide by the laws of your home address, not the laws of the state where the dealer is located, so when it comes to California, rather than deal with our mandatory 10 day waiting periods & such, they just don't even sell to me.
Here's another "dumbism".... I have about 50 rifles give or take in my collection, plus some junk I inherited from my dad (all his stuff was junk.. LOL.. except the SKS is cool). I have 50 rifles at home, and a federal collector FFL, but I have a 10 day waiting period to buy a .22 or whatever, just like everyone else.... because I might be acting in the heat of the moment and going to a retailer to buy a new gun to go and shoot someone with, not just getting one out of the safe that I already have.
And of course you have to show your receipt for a California-approved gun safe... let's not forget that one... I once tried to explain that I converted a room in my house to basically a "safe room"... not because I'm paranoid, but a typical gun safe is kind of small for my hobby, I have a work bench, locking rails on the wall for display, etc. I still had to have a California "approved' gun safe, so I went and bought some $100 piece of sh*t from Walmart that I use as dry-storage for ammo and show that every time I buy a gun.
From the Firearm Safety Certificate Study Guide. "California recognizes the importance of safe storage by requiring that all firearms sold in California be accompanied by a DOJ-approved firearms safety device or proof that the purchaser owns a gun safe that meets regulatory standards established by the DOJ."
A safety device can be a simple trigger lock or a cable lock that passes through the firing chamber. I do not need a gun safe as either a practical or legal matter in my California locale.
with the elections in the fall. -- j
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What this thread needs is it's own cartoon. heh heh heh
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He never mentions his government's stockpiling of ammunition to keep it out of the marketplace by making it scarce and expensive. Nor does he mention his EP's efforts to close down lead smelters who provide source material for bullets.
When the Constitution forbids him from making laws or taking guns, he hides the bullets. But he doesn't believe in the Constitution anyway, hence his illegal executive orders.
90% of it, he could have just went to Congress and got approval for, but he doesn't want to talk about what the 10% is...
Primarily, he wants to pierce the HIPAA privacy and require therapists and psychiatrists to report their patient lists to the national background check system... so let's say you have a rough divorce, and you see a therapist, maybe it leads into some depression and you go on Prozac for a year or whatever. Maybe its a little worse and affecting your work, so maybe Xanax is prescribed. Prozac can make some people a little nervous, reduces sex drive, etc. , while Xanax tends to keep you fully functional but with a "huh, that's interesting, I don't give a sh_t" attitude toward problems that come up.
Or maybe lets say you are prescribed an SSRI for an off-label purpose, it can make guys "last" a lot longer in bed for example. Guys in the porn industry tend to OD on the stuff.
Ok, so they report in that you are taking Prozac or Zoloft or whatever to the national background check, and now Whoops... you may not be able to buy a firearm because you are "depressed" and you just might become a jihadi and shoot 14 people in San Bernardino.
In California, as of January 1, with "cause" either a family member, a judge, or a "law enforcement official" can report someone as a 'risk' and their firearms can be seized.
Stack those two together... police officer responds to a routine domestic call, let's say its a heated argument over where the neighbor put the fence line, he checks the CA weapons database as he is rolling up to see if either owns firearms, and after resolving the dispute he thinks "hmm... so and so the football coach at the high school there seemed a little hot-headed, he might go next door and blow off the other dude's head because of the fence line being 6 inches starboard. Maybe I need to report him as a risk and we'll seize all those M1 Garand's and SKS's in the collection it looks like he has...
I have an interesting story on that note, my uncle was a "top cop" in Minnesota growing up, eventually retired as a chief of police, and was the president of the Minnesota chiefs of police association after retirement. He was also a corrupt bast_rd. He used to take beer away from college kids at parties they would respond to break up, throw the keg in the back of his squad car and take it home to use in his kegerator. Did that every week, guy never bought his own alcohol. There was also a few more serious incidents... using the rifle in his trunk to poach deer off the end of the runway at the airport where only law enforcement was allowed to enter... and another incident involved suspicion after responding to a burglary at a sporting goods store, the store owner was already there, saw that the most valuable rifle was thankfully still on display on a rack out of reach, but after giving his statement and looking at the rest of the store, the $9,000 rifle was suddenly gone... and my uncle had a very nice deer rifle a few years later it seemed like...
And there was also the numerous complaints by liquor store managers that happened to be female / etc... that those sting charges for underage minor sales would go away if certain services were involved.
Unfortunately, he was nowhere near alone in that... and I think it's rather prevalent, not everywhere, but it's not isolated either.
Our constitution guarantees rights we have already been endowed with by God, not only to protect ourselves from each other, but to protect ourselves from overreach of government and corrupt agents of that government. Any infringement on the right to keep and bear arms slips us further toward being a Mexican cartel-controlled banana republic.
And the other argument, 20 kids in Connecticut 4 years ago brings a tear to his eye, but 4,000 kids a day aborted he will fight to the the gates of hell to protect... I don't take a particular stand off neutral on either of those issues, but it's very hypocritical of the jack*ss.
Armed criminals and terrorists? What do they care about some latest scribble made by a weak as tater water law-making dictator with a pen?