Posted on 06/20/2016 6:12:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Obviously, she is confused. I bought my AR to GOOD things!
ARs and AKs protect people from people who do bad things.
NEVER GIVE UP!
Wanna know what stopped Diane Feinstein & Chuckie Schumer?
Two words: American Revolution. That war broke the hold of the English parliamentary system, aka “dictatorship interrupted by elections”, and gave us our system of separation of powers.
A British head of state can crush gun rights with a wave of his/her hand because the majority party controls the government. Ours cannot and it makes him madder than h***.
Remember, no confiscation without registration. Again, try getting that passed, Democrats.
Wishing you a quiet evening of peaceful meditation. Me, I will pour myself another drink.
;^)
Big difference. There is a reason why you can’t hunt deer with .223 in many states. The .308 with similar bullet construction will do much more damage, making a kill when the .223 leaves a wounded animal. I’ve seen people shot with both and the effect is similar in human flesh.
If I see a bunch at a distance of 150-to-250 yds out, my bushmaster is the hunting tool I use.
If I'm targeting something in the 300-400 yd range, my M-1, still chambered in 30-06, will do the job.
Can’t we bring a class-action lawsuit for defamation against this nitwit?????
In the last 20 years mine has killed nothing but paper targets. I do not even hunt anymore, I became tired of killing things but eat the hell out the deer my neighbor kills on my land.
I shoot paper targets because I enjoy it and to stay proficient with this and other firearms.
I will defend self and family. I will go back to hunting animals if I am ever hungry.
it is none of the Democratic senator’s business what anybody buys anything, including a firearm for
1. defend against oppressive IslamoNazi dictatorship being imposed?
2. go hunting
3. defend self
4. defend the home
5. defend friends
6. defend community
7. go out to target practice
8. install in a glass case as a discussion item
9. as an “investment”
10 whatever
it is still none of the senator’s business, period. end of file.
“Yea, smooth bore muskets were [weapons of war]. The British infantry were mostly armed with them.
Our frontiersmen, farmers etc., were mostly armed with rifles. The assault rifles of the day.
And the Brits came to confiscate them.
They lost.”
American colonists of the 1770s were not armed exclusively with rifles: not even a majority owned them.
The rifle of the period (best-known types were the long rifles made in Pennsylvania) was far more expensive than any smoothbore long gun: it required a great deal of skilled labor to make one. Each was unique, and a custom-cut mould had to be made, sized to the bore, to cast balls that fit properly. Notable feats of individual marksmanship were possible, and the British paid heavily (many officers complained about the “ungentlemanly” behavior of Americans, who kept picking them off at ranges of 200 yds). But each rifle varied in performance compared to every other: massed fire was impossible. Since the tight-fitting ball had to be forced down the barrel during loading, rifles took longer to load, for each shot.
In contrast, smoothbore long guns were much more common. Encounters with wild game on the eastern seaboard of North America were at very short range, thanks to the dense forests, and the often-spotty accuracy of a smoothbore was good enough. Smoothbores were also more flexible: they could be loaded with small-diameter shot for hunting birds and small game, and smaller numbers of mid-caliber balls (later termed “buckshot”) for use against deer and other large game.
Smoothbores were much easier and quicker to load: a ball of smaller diameter than the bore could be forced down the barrel with the rammer, even if heavy fouling was present.
European military practice favored high volumes of fire and speedy reloading: hence the universal adoption of the smoothbore musket.
Small units of riflemen were formed in the American War of Independence, but fought chiefly as scouts or light infantry. They required line infantry armed with muskets mounting bayonets to protect them in close action; rifles had no bayonets. Once the rifleman discharged his piece, he was helpless until he reloaded, a process that could take a minute or more.
General Washington and other senior American leaders knew quite well that American forces would likely fail when going up against British training and discipline, and thus expended great effort to drill and train the rank and file in standard European infantry tactics; they also went to great lengths to arm them with military-issue muskets of uniform bore size and decent quality. France supplied many used muskets of 69 cal, chiefly their M1763 pattern (which became the prototype for US-issue small arms design, for many decades).
After “Baron” von Steuben (served on the staff of Prussian King Frederick the Great) trained cadres in early 1778, individual regiments drilled the same way, and the Continental Line became “an army that would look the enemy in the face.” Just what General Washington wanted.
The British did not lose. General Washington held the Continental Army together, dodging each British attempt to annihilate his forces until US diplomats convinced the French to intervene. Spain followed, and then the Netherlands.
Facing with a worldwide conflict against three major European powers, the British ran short of cash and confronted serious threats to other elements of their empire. Public opinion soured on the war to retain the American Colonies.
The British decided it wasn’t worth their while, to continue.
Yet, every time a woman exercises her "right" to have an abortion, an innocent heart stops beating.
More innocent children died from abortion today than in all the school shootings from the beginning of our country, combined.
Want to stop innocent slaughter? Stop embracing a culture of death.
Some people are buying them simply because you are trying to take them away Sen. Sh*tbag.
Lord help her if she ever is told what the Browning BAR was designed for.
What a dip sh1t!
The larger threat are the elitists in D.C. who never stop trying to subvert our 2nd Amendment rights.
If the Framers meant Muskets instead of Arms, they would have used the word Muskets instead of Arms.
Most of the Cannons used by the Patriots in the Revolutionary War were Privately owned “Arms”.
If the same rule applied t the First Amendment, the Internet would be Illegal and only Printing Presses would be allowed by the Ruling Elite.
Sorry to think that that this Idiot Woman is one of the 100 Special People out of a Population of 320,000,000.
Interesting fact about cannons being privately owned BTW :) Do you have any more information or sources about that?
Will the Constitution suffice? Art I, Sec 8, cl 11, which allows the government to write Letters of Marque and Reprisal. This meant that the new government was allowed to contract with private individuals to use their privately-owned battleships of the day, replete with hundreds of cannon, to help the government in attaining its goals (which was initially, and ironically, battling Muslim pirates and slaver ships... which is the source of the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Corps Anthem). Good enough?? It is written in the Constitution before the Second Amendment. Not only cannons, but battleships, were recognized as properly permitted, and useful, in the hands of individual citizens.
>>Interesting fact about cannons being privately owned BTW :) Do you have any more information or sources about that?<<<
Read it on FR years ago and Googled it. Many were on our early Naval Vessels. I read 70% were Privately owned and donated to the cause.
SKS and an AK with a 5 round mag is popular in WV, just a few miles away. 7.62x39 is roughly equivelant to a 30-30.
“Good enough???”
Uh Thanks?
Perhaps I should say sorry I asked...
To be clear, I wasn’t doubting ...I just wanted more historical information....who were the private sources, etc...Just found it interesting :(
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