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Posted on 09/08/2008 3:47:11 AM PDT by sig226
"Lug welded to the barrel"
should read:
"Nut welded to the barrel".
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Did that guy need stiches over his RT eye, or was he just posing for the picture?
My best hope for Palin's actions is that she might start tightening the leash on F Troop.
Safe to assume that they won't try any ex post facto nonsense? An awful lot of weapons are being purchased to get in under AWB 2.0.
He went through several magazines without a scratch.
At the risk of being the millionth person to bother you on the subject, how are you doing on the third installment of your breast-obsessed, nativist rant?
Actually, although my own daughter is now almost 28 years old and has a firearm of her own to keep her company, during her high school years, my semiautos were an integral part of her dating experience. When her young man would come to the front door, one of my pistols or one of my rifles would meet him at the front door and escort him into meet the family for a quiet "chat" before their date. When they got ready to depart, likely as not, the same weapon that escorted HIM in would escort THEM out with a quiet whispered word to remember our "chat." That always worked fine for me! Try it, you'll like it and I'm certain your semiautos will be glad to assist in any way possible!
From first hand knowledge I know that this person only gets hit by a scope once. ;)
Hey !! Don’t make him feel bad.....he’s already taken half the naked pictures of all those beautiful wimmin out of that third book (lying selling point)..........;o)
One would hope that this information would put the "more guns = more crime" fraud to sleep forever. Of course, that requires rational people without an agenda on the other side.
BTW, I can confirm that all of the guns in my gunsafe have been exceptionally well behaved...well, except that there's a bit of unauthorized and unprotected fraternization going on, since they seems to multiply only slightly slower than rabbits. :>)
Bushmaster M4 A3
Safe to assume that they won't try any ex post facto nonsense?
Of course not. They'll do whatever they can get away with.
Those AK’s really have light recoil. I wouldn’t try holding my head that close to a scope on something like my .375 H&H magnum!
If they try confiscations, it will be the beginning of something that they do not want.
A. The Thompson .45 Caliber Weapon
Section 5845(b) of Title 26 defines a "machine gun" as "any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger." Alverson argues that the Government offered insufficient proof that the Thompson .45 caliber weapon fit this definition. No one disputes that the Thompson, in the condition in which it was left at the gun store, did not fire "more than one shot ... by a single function of the trigger." The Government contends, however, that its evidence proves either that the gun could be "readily restored to shoot automatically" or that the gun did function automatically when Alverson brought it to the gun store and before he replaced the disconnect.
The following evidence was adduced: (1) when defendant first brought the weapon to the store, he stated that he and his son had just been firing it and that "while his son was shooting it he held down the trigger too long." This statement makes sense only in reference to a weapon that fires more than one shot per function of the trigger. (2) In the presence of gun store employees, defendant removed the disconnect from the gun and replaced it because "you don't want [the Thompson] like this," or "it was fixed." The second disconnect differed from the first in that it "had a smaller hump on it." A Government firearms expert testified that the function of a disconnect was to prevent the weapon from firing fully automatically. He also testified that the Thompson "probably" would fire fully automatically if it had a disconnect on which the hump had been "filed down." Finally, the Government's expert testified that a "shaved off" disconnect, in conjunction with the polished interior surfaces he actually observed on the Thompson, "would convert it into fully automatic." (3) Defendant had the knowledge to convert semi-automatic weapons to fully automatic,and had done so on previous occasions. (4) A gun store employee testified that appellant gave, as a reason for having his wife sign for the Thompson, the fact that "he had spent 18 months in Lompoc for possession of a machine gun." From this evidence, a rational trier of fact could conclude, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Thompson could be "readily restored to shoot automatically." [footnote 1]
B. Constructive Possession of the Other Weapons
Possession of firearms in violation of section 5861(d) "need not be [proved by] exclusive actual possession, but may be [proved by] constructive or joint possession." United States v. Kalama, 549 F.2d 594, 596 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 1110, 97 S.Ct. 1147, 51 L.Ed.2d 564 (1977). "'In order to establish constructive possession, the government must produce evidence showing ownership, dominion, or control over the contraband itself or the premises ... in which contraband is concealed.' ... [D]ominion and control over[defendant's] own residence, in which the guns were found, is a sufficient basis for the jury's inference of constructive possession." United States v. Smith, 591 F.2d 1105, 1107 (5th Cir. 1979) (quoting United States v. Ferg, 504 F.2d 914, 916-17 (5th Cir. 1974)). [footnote 2] The defendant argues that the Government's evidence fails to show that the residence in which the three additional weapons were seized was his.
Thanks!!!!
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