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| Sep 14th, 2004 06:22 PM | ||||
| El Blanco | I don't think a $15k .50 cal is considered a hunting rifle, OAO, but point taken. | |||
| Sep 14th, 2004 06:16 PM | ||||
| The One and Only... | Yeah? So what? Stronger as in the bullet hits harder and faster. | |||
| Sep 14th, 2004 06:08 PM | ||||
| Anonymous |
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| Sep 14th, 2004 05:59 PM | ||||
| EisigerBiskuit | To ban a certain type of weapon instead of all of them is just plain igneramical(?). If a place is so bad that you need to keep guns away from people, possibly causing a riot between rednecks and gun collectors, might as well wipe it out. | |||
| Sep 14th, 2004 05:46 PM | ||||
| The One and Only... | Just as an added extra to show how truly worthless this ban was, there are hunting rifles stronger than any of the banned assault weapons. | |||
| Sep 14th, 2004 05:04 PM | ||||
| conus |
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| Sep 14th, 2004 04:54 PM | ||||
| KevinTheOmnivore |
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Just a thought, but sometimes symbolic laws are a good thing to have, and apprently people of all ideological perspectives believed this.....with the exception of course of the NRA and our president. |
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| Sep 14th, 2004 02:34 PM | ||||
| El Blanco |
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Hell, you can go into Home Depot and build a fully-auto firing SAW from scratch. The information is always available. Wouldn't it be better if we did something about why people think these weapons are needed rather than trying to be their parents and taking away their toys? |
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| Sep 14th, 2004 08:52 AM | ||||
| mew barios |
this ban was stupid. there was never a point during it that you couldn't purchase 50 or 100 round drums simply for their tremendous overstock, and all the affected guns were produced easily within the millions, nothing prevented them from being resold legally. the particular things banned were based on some bizarre definition of assault weapon which had nothing to do with power or lethality or anything at all beyond menacing appearance. most semiauto weaponry was not prohibited, only those with a 'military style appearance'. ak-47s can't be converted to full auto. fully automatic guns have been heavily regulated for a long time and received no mention in this particular law o.o this being maintained or lapsed makes not a damn bit of difference :o rightaway people started manufacturing copies of the of guns banned specifically by name, removing the bayonet mountings or shaving a little bit off the weight o.o and giving them a different name. o.o i dunno why i'm even bothering to type this out. noone cares :o |
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| Sep 14th, 2004 07:47 AM | ||||
| Captain Goodtimes |
Keep in mind people that it is still illegal to shoot people with these weapons. 
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| Sep 14th, 2004 07:04 AM | ||||
| FS | Reading an article on the subject this morning, I'm pretty sure you can get AK-74's, the WEAPON OF CHOICE FOR TERRORISTS EVERYWHERE | |||
| Sep 14th, 2004 02:46 AM | ||||
| Anonymous |
Me too. I just wish that gun manufacturers would make 'em cheaper so that everyone could get their own. Also, I'd like it to be manditory that ammunition be treated with cyanide. I don't want to have to make two trips. |
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| Sep 14th, 2004 02:00 AM | ||||
| Zhukov |
Can you buy AK's? I've always wanted one. I think that the lift on the ban is a good idea. |
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| Sep 14th, 2004 12:00 AM | ||||
| Crying Baby Jesus |
who cares You can all have the proper weaponry now to take on the Reds when they parachute into your schoolyards and force you and a few friends into the mountains. |
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| Sep 13th, 2004 11:54 PM | ||||
| conus |
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| Sep 13th, 2004 11:43 PM | ||||
| Crying Baby Jesus |
I'm gonna go across the border and pick up that Drum fed Shotgun Ive always wanted! And that HK USC thats been taunting me for the last year 
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| Sep 13th, 2004 10:03 PM | ||||
| Emu | Oh, then that makes it all fine. | |||
| Sep 13th, 2004 09:51 PM | ||||
| The One and Only... |
Woah, woah, woah. This isn't going to make machineguns legal, people. It says semiautomatic weapons. In other words, you still have the squeeze the trigger seperately for each shot. |
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| Sep 13th, 2004 08:45 PM | ||||
| Brandon | JUST AS OUR CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMERS INTENDED, AM I RIGHT? | |||
| Sep 13th, 2004 06:42 PM | ||||
| FS | The NRA should organize a "kill Osama with a lucky shot" day by having Americans line up all along the seaside borders and shoot towards other countries. | |||
| Sep 13th, 2004 05:03 PM | ||||
| Stark |
It's just like that scenario where you put a thousand monkeys in a room with a thousand typewriters for eternity and one will eventually write shakespeare. The more bullets fired the bigger chance there is that one will hit osama. It's all a plan by the pentagon to bring an end to terrorism. They call it 'swiss cheese dynamics'. |
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| Sep 13th, 2004 03:59 PM | ||||
| conus | It's also good news for deer hunters, although to continue denying hunters the use of surface-to-surface missiles seems unfair. | |||
| Sep 13th, 2004 03:16 PM | ||||
| FS | I hope this'll help everyone protect their family as they blindly spray the room with bullets when they hear a strange sound at night. | |||
| Sep 13th, 2004 03:08 PM | ||||
| ziggytrix |
GOOD News For the Bullet-Proof Vest Industry http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/091304_nw_gun_ban.html Assault Weapons Ban Expires at Midnight WASHINGTON — Starting at midnight it will be legal to buy many kinds of semiautomatic weapons in the Untied States for the first time since 1994. On the campaign trail, as John Kerry was endorsed by the National Association of Police Organizations, he blamed President Bush for letting the assault weapons ban lapse. Kerry said, "George Bush made a choice today. He chose his powerful friends in the gun lobby over the police officers and the families he promised to protect." President Bush said he would have signed a new ban on assault weapons if Congress had passed it. But Republicans leaders never brought it up for a vote. Most police organizations support the ban. Gun control supporters predict its expiration will lead to more violent crime. But, it is unclear whether the ban has helped reduce crime. Loopholes enabled many of the 19 military-style assault weapons to remain on the market because gun makers simply altered their names. Although, a third of its members support the ban, the powerful National Rifle Association says only 2 percent of gun crimes involved assault weapons. National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre says, "What matters is how a gun shoots. And the guns that are going to be available on Tuesday shoot no different than the ones that were available last Friday." Many states - including California, Massachusetts, New York, and Hawaii - have passed their own laws curbing the use of assault weapons. Some of those are more stringent than the federal ban. |
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