Posted on 05/08/2020 3:45:24 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper
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There have been some really good ones.
BCT was the first time I had ever held a firearm (I'm a child of the suburbs) and I qualified with a higher score than I achieved with the M-16.
The M-16 was noticeably lighter than the M-14 and it's easy for me to imagine that,as a result,it might have been better in the chaos of combat than the M-14.
That's all I have to contribute.
However,if your curiosity is fueled by the recent announcement of your Prime Minister I'd suggest you google "Hubert Humphrey" and "2nd Amendment".You'll find a quote of his from many years ago expressing strong,clear support for gun ownership and a surprisingly cogent explanation for that support.
Don't know if that quote would resonate with Canadians who would oppose any additional firearms restrictions.
Remember the old adage that got this nonsense started. Before that they ONLY wanted to register and ban handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
“ Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons —anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. —Josh Sugarmann, 1988
Remember, if they can get a ban on any type of firearm, rest assured they will use that ban as a basis to go after their real target from 1962-1988, HANDGUNS.
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
To stop the hysteria you first have to convince liberals that semiautomatic does not mean automatic. They really don’t know the difference.
Yes, and while not wanting to get too far off topic, I recall reading about how Humphrey speared the effort to get rid of socialists and other far left people who tried to hijack the Democrats way back when.
But my favorite weapon was the main gun. :-))
HHH
just didn’t want to rush.
Wasn’t he a leader in the ADA ?
Sometimes weight is an advantage. I have heard a few stories of people buying high powered chamberings in Ruger No. 1 rifles (single shot) and then selling them because of too much recoil.
Get off my lawn
Convince a Liberal,,
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I think we are past
That Point.
Several studies have shown that it takes thousands of rounds to kill one enemy soldier—unless the rifle is handled by a sniper with a specific goal of “One round, one kill”
Why the difference? One can speculate that despite the careful training for soldiers to carefully fire an aimed round at a specific target, the ability to “spray and pray” with full auto overtakes training in a battle situation, especially where no clear targets are visible.
Makes you wonder how much more lethal our armies would be if we gave our trained marksmen only a few rounds at a time to protect themselves. However, the strict control of ammo seems to have contributed to the British losing the Battle of Islandywayo in the Zulu war in 1879.
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