Plus the bad guys have 'em. Hugs don't work.
‘cause we can’t all be Nagant cultists. ;)
Because I like shooting all sorts of guns and then protect myself, not that the metrosexual NY City / DC turds would know anything about.
Maybe we should ban wine seeing as wine can help to kill , oh wait the elitist snotty nosed metrosexuals up there like their expensive wine.
I have just as much right to have a gun as they do to drink their wine, so F-em.
For the same reason our Founding Fathers owned them and printing presses.
I went to the gun store this morning and the racks are empty.
/johnny
Thank you for the ping.
Because I have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms as a law-abiding citizen.
Besides, I LOVE guns, loading them, shooting them, cleaning them, buying ammo, cc, and blasting targets.
Period.
Personally I think most politicians are assaulting me daily....
Right on both counts! :)
But gunner, don't you see -- that makes too much sense. We must all emote. It's the only way to whirled peas.
"Why should anyone own an assault rifle ? ... it's the confiscation of these types of weapons that counts and will have an impact. - Speshul Ed Schultz
My response on the thread about that was "I own an 'assault rifle' to keep anyone from confiscating my other guns." Facetious but essentially true. More basically the reason to own one is to defend against multiple assailants. And then there is the fun of shooting one.
You don't say? I'm going to have to look into that.
I'm an old fart and can't run away from danger or hide as quickly as I used to, so may need to get myself some better defensive weaponry.
Thanks for the ping gunner, it’s going to get interesting, that’s for sure. I guess getting that 10 pack of Pmags last month wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
That mosin looks sweet. And like you said, a nice slice of history.
Thanks for the ping!
Because they are cool and fun to shoot.
Plus the bad guys have 'em. Hugs don't work.
Thanks for the ping. I shot the M-16 during my almost 40 years in the military. Those are fun to shoot in the "rock and roll" (full auto) mode. You can empty the magazine in seconds, but that is expensive. Now an M2 or M60 machine gun using tracers is really fun. Personally, I like to shoot one round at a time and make sure it hits the target.
The bad people will not turn in their guns regardless of the laws. Hell most have criminal records and just by possessing a firearm they are breaking the law.
An “assault type” weapon is the weapon of choice in defense against intruders, criminals and a tyrannical government.
Take a look at the list below: That is why we need assault weapons. Note: In the top ten, seven of the leaders were either communists or socialists (NAZI = National Socialist Party)
Regardless of the leaders being Communist, Socialist, etc. THE VICTIMS HAD ONE THING IN COMMON. THEY DID NOT HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHTS TO FIREARMS.
Mao Ze-Dong (COMMUNIST) (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000 HE IS THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER FOR TOTAL NUMBER KILLED.
Adolf Hitler (SOCIALIST) (Germany, 1939-1945) 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians deliberately killed in WWII plus 3 million Russian POWs left to die)
Leopold II (KING) of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908) 8,000,000
Jozef Stalin (COMMUNIST) (USSR, 1932-39) 6,000,000 (the gulags plus the purges plus Ukraine's famine)
Hideki Tojo (MILITARY DICTATOR) (Japan, 1941-44) 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)
Ismail Enver (DICTATOR) (Turkey, 1915-20) 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20)
Pol Pot (COMMUNIST) (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000 HE IS THE ALL TIME WINNER FOR PERCENTAGE KILLED, ESTIMATED AT 20%.
Kim Il Sung (COMMUNIST) (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps) HE IS THE RUNNER UP ON PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION KILLED, ABOUT 19%
Menghistu (COMMUNIST) (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000
Yakubu Gowon (MILITARY DICTATOR) (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000
Leonid Brezhnev (COMMUNIST) (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000
Jean Kambanda (SOCIALIST & QUASI COMMUNIST)(Rwanda, 1994) 800,000
Saddam Hussein (MILITARY DICTATOR) (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) 600,000
Tito (COMMUNIST) (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) 570,000
Suharto (DICTATOR) (Communists 1965-66) 500,000
Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) 500,000? (Chinese civilians)
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) 400,000
Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) 400,000
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) 300,000
Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) 300,000 (Bangladesh)
Ante Pavelic (Croatia, 1941-45) 359,000 (30,000 Jews,
29,000 Gipsies, 300,000 Serbs)
Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII) 300,000
Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97)
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Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) 220,000
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) 200,000
Suharto (Aceh, East Timor, New Guinea, 1975-98) 200,000
Ho Chi Min (Vietnam, 1953-56) 200,000
Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) 150,000
Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-99) 100,000
Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999) 100,000
That would be a pile of bodies approximately 700 feet by 700 feet by 700 feet. The murders committed in the community are minuscule compared to the murders committed by governments. IT CAN BE STATED WITH GREAT AUTHORITY THAT COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM AND DICTATORSHIPS KILL WITH VICIOUS EFFICIENCY.
Merry Christmas to you humblegunner. I hope you are well.