Posted on 07/24/2012 4:53:32 PM PDT by No One Special
Now that took real talent!
I think that I read[or heard] that both the BAR and Thompson were developed toward the end of WWI. The BAR to augment the firepower of the rifle squads and the Thompson for trench fighting.
“And the will to use it”
That is Obamas main goal, to remove the “will” of the people.
Currently about the only real “will” in America is when neighborhoods get upset when a gang member is shot.
Case in point in headlines: Anaheim
Now however if there was a way to fuel patriotism in American perhaps we should all become part of a gang, one gets shot and then you get an armed nation royally pissed off.
Bizzarroland meets Disneyland.
Thanks! The wife helped. She gave the idea for the dripping blood. It’s an amalgamation of various images I’ve seen on the subject.
I heard the legal expert on Fox and Friends this morning say that in Colorado the death penalty does NOT apply when the accused had anger or hatred during a criminal act.
Is this a valid statement?
If so, then the real “Joker” is the State Government of Colorado.
BTW, IF no one is perfect, and you are No One, THEN you are perfect, and that makes you special.
China has taught Amerika well, because we also have only 3 people who make decisions:
1.) Creepy, commie, Kenyan Dictator “You Lie” Obama;
2.) US Senate Majority Leader “Bottleneck” Harry Reid;
3.) and Chief Justice of the Supreme Tax Court, Traitor John Roberts.
“I understand the theater specifically asked patrons not to use conceal carry. There were signs advising of this.”
- That’s nice. Too bad the shooter ignored the signs. Criminals tend to ignore gun laws, too. I hate it when they do that.
The Thompson might be correct though I was thinking more of the standard troop rifle.
Of course, archy would know the nuts and bolts.
Lol. perfect logic ;-)
When that shooting started a student ran to his car and got out a 22 rifle and started to shoot back at the gunman. The student kept the gunman’s head down until the cops shot him.(the bad guy)
Depends on how you define the term, of course. The Danish Navy used some of the Madsen Model 1896 semi-auto rifles, later developed into the Madsen machine rifle. The first more-or-less successful combat use of a semiauto was as an aircraft weapon, back in the WWI days when aviators took potshots at each other with handguns. Propellor synchronisation of belt-fed MGs firing through the propellor arc [eventually perfected and technically, initially a semi-auto firing cycle tripped by lobes on the propellor shaft] had not yet come along and the Germans had about enough of the more sporting aspects of aerial warfare. Enter their contribution to that subset of military science, the Swiss SIG-manufactured version of the Mexican Mondragon M1908 semiauto rifle in the 7x57mm Mauser cartridge, known to the Germans as the Flieger-Selbstlader-Karabiner 15.
So far as the first semi-auto weapon to effectively replace the manually operated infantry weapon that preceeded it, that would be Mr. John Garand's wonderful device, the M1 rifle, following initial US Ordnance efforts to turn out a semiauto version of the M1903 Springfield, which included semiauto conversions of the Swiss M1911 straightpull rifle and, eventually, Pedersen's semiauto design that introduced the en-bloc clip-fed magazine of the Garand, initially a 10-round device utilizing Pedersen's .276 cartridge, but very nicely adapted to the .30 M2 and .30 M1 cartridge versions of the .30 calibre cartridge of 1906.
I'm pretty good with the nuts, at least....
When you’re taught that humanity is an accident of chance and environment, then what’s wrong with shooting a few of them? Especially when there will be no eternal consequences.
Yes, I've seen signs like that, though I tend to pay little attention to them.
All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.
Marbury vs. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)
I'm pretty good with the nuts, at least....
Yes. Yes you are. Thanks once again for sharing your knowledge. Have a great weekend!
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