Posted on 12/04/2010 12:28:04 PM PST by smokingfrog
I just got my first gun.
Kim du Toit used to blog about how a .22 was a household commodity, like sugar or flour. However, the People's Republic of Massachusetts made things enough of a PITA that we never jumped through the required hoops. Now we're in Georgia, and breathe free air, so it's a different story.
Because I no longer live in Massachusetts, I don't need special licensing from the State to own a gun. Even without special papers, without fingerprinting and background checks, I can own one - and ammunition (!) -without becoming a felon. What this make me, in a psychologically important way, is a citizen. Not a subject, not someone who has to ask "please" from some Government Functionary, but a free citizen who can be entrusted with the tools of power.
Funny, I haven't had the urge to go shoot up a school. According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun **--Ownership--** Violence, this no doubt will overtake me any day now.
The Winchester 190 was a semi-automatic plinking/varmint rifle manufactured in fairly large quantities. It's tube fed, and the tube magazine is probably big enough to make this an "assault rifle" in New Jersey. This one has a 2x scope, and looks like it would be sweet for clearing out small, unwelcome four-footed guests. And since the two-footed ones don't want to get shot (even with a .22), it might have some use there as well.
But the meaning goes beyond the (quite modest) firepower of the rifle. It's a statement of freedom, the mark of a citizen, not a subject. We could use more citizens, not more subjects.
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Hey now - how many foods with just a wee bit of accessorizing can be used as breakfast, dessert or dinner? HMMMMM?
Pickles.
Hotdogs.
Sishi.
Bacon.
More Bacon.
$219.00. Postage paid from Ammoman.com
Bacon-wrapped bacon!
Congrats! Now go get a pistol and a carry license. Its easy and another statement to our want to be rules! Georgia has pretty good gun laws. A few still need to be changed but overall not bad.
I LOVE it here!
Thanks. I’ll check again.
Congrats on finally experiencing a relatively FREE part of the country. I would not do well in peoples’ republic states like Mass or Kalifornia. And the thugocracy which runs those states would not have much fun trying to take my guns from me.
FYI
I’m not “Borepatch” - I just posted from his blog.
How could anyone ruin a Ruger 10/22? I have one that’s 35 years old (no plastic parts) and it still works great. Thinking about getting a target barrel for it though.
Welcome to Georgia. Guns n grits forever.
Call your local PD and see who or where the next gun “buy-back” is happening.
I haven't heard that in ages! Who was your coach?
Maybe you can make a trade at your gun show or through private parties to get one quality firearm. Maybe not a kimber or Colt, but something like a newer 10-22 or Rossi?
One that you can trust to fire beats several that you can’t.
And if you’re re building your collection, consider consolodating calibers, too.
I decided that I didn’t really need 9mm or .40 cal so I traded/sold them off so I had fewer calibers to keep stocked.
That was, of course, before the tragic incident where I lost all my equipment in a boating accident.
Thanks, sounds like a good idea. Especially consolidating calibers.
His name was U.S. Army Col. Kenneth Potter. Audie Murphy’s CO himself.
I have the ranch rifle. I wanted a mini-14 but the seller talked me into the mini-30, I think they call it. Ammo is pretty cheap if you get the Russian made stuff. Someone posted it's $240 a case.
If the ammo is good enough for the red army, I suppose it's mostly ok...
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