My advice: Get the biggest tank you can afford...
Posted on 07/26/2006 4:47:07 PM PDT by bad company
Illinois State Police trooper Gregory Mugge pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing an unregistered machine gun in federal court on Tuesday, according to an announcement from the U.S. attorney's office.
Mugge, 52, of Jerseyville, was indicted in January, along with Illinois State Police Sgt. James Vest, 39, of O'Fallon, and John Yard, 36, an Illinois State Police special agent assigned to the Collinsville office, each face separate charges of illegal gun possession.
Mugge faces up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and a maximum three years of supervised release.
He is scheduled to reappear in court for sentencing on Oct. 27.
On Dec. 29, authorities seized Mugge's unregistered Colt .2234 caliber rifle from his home in Jerseyville. In his plea, Mugge admitted to knowing his possession of the rifle was unlawful.
In February, a group of 12 local police chiefs and sheriffs, and two state senators, Sen. Bill Haine, D-Alton, and Sen. James Watson, R-Greenville, endorsed a letter of support for the three state troopers.
At that time, the backers pushed for administrative punishment for the three troopers rather than prosecution.
You're right. And these two probably have delusions of grandeur and of some day being worthy of the executive protection afforded the boy-governor.
The more of this shite I read the more convinced I am that citizens HAVE to arm themselves, because some day we're all going to clearly understand what they framers meant by tyranny.
We must make our fellow citizens understand that responsible citizenship includes THE RIGHT and THE DUTY to possess the same weapons issued to infantry in the regular army.
But I want a tank!
If automatic rifles were banned, I'd be disappointed, since they're fun to shoot and a law banning them would be unconstitutional.
"I wonder who that says more about."
lets see, didn't you try to compare automatic weapons to WMDs? I kinda wish that were true, maybe the MSM would finally admit that Iraq has WMDs.
And didn't you also charge that the desire to own a automatic weapon was indicative of a will to commit mass murder?
No, it doesn't mean that at all. It means that our courts have to decide what the Founders would have intended had the technology existed at the time they wrote the Constitution.
Which they have done ever since the Constitution was written. That's why we have Supreme Court cases on such things as thermal technology devices which can see through walls of a house. We've always been required to extrapolate what the Founders would have intended had they even considered the particular fact situation.
It's why the Air Force isn't unconstitutional although it's not provided for in the powers of the legislature to create and maintain.
"But I want a tank!"
And you can have a tank. You just cant have one with a working cannon.
You can either retract your statement or not. I'm indifferent.
"orry, through with you. You're into insults. Other people can carry your arguments, but I don't need your crap."
Don't care if you respond or not. I didn't insult, I said the argument used was silly. All of the anti gun arguments you are using are old. They've all been thought out, researched and found to be faulty. Thats not an insult, thats a challenge to come up with an original argument.
Law abiding gun owners commit very few gun crimes. Most crimes are committed by criminals.
Absolutely not. Full auto means 30 or so rounds at most per load. A machine gun tosses bullets in the hundreds or thousands of bullets continuously.
banned comp.? I thought with proper buyer background checks posession was allowed in some states.
Let's see, you used "inner city" and "gangbangers" in your argument about who you didn't want their Constitutional Rights.
I think you forgot to use the words "nigger" and "darkie". Did I forget any?
I think I see where you're wandering off of the road here. Are you trying to make the point that a full auto capable rifle somehow equals a "WMD"? If so, you may have already been indoctrinated beyond hope.
Consider this for a moment, please.
Our Second Amendment was written to guarantee the individual right to arms AND the collective right, {militia}. The militia member was expected to answer the call bringing his own weapon "in common use" for his time. Today, in our time, that weapon would be at a minimum the second version of the M16.
Inalienable REALLY means inalienable. {Foolish voters may not legislate said rights away}
Shall not be infringed REALLY means shall not be infringed.
the feds dont make that distinction.
Why not a working cannon in his tank? Private ownership of cannon was not banned under the Constitution;although most people had better uses for the money.
You pathetic jerk. You want to accuse me of racism in your defense of machine guns.
Where are the gangs operating? Out in the cornfields of Iowa?
Or maybe to mention the existence of gangs and their propensity for gun violence is racist.
The only person who raised race on this thread is YOU, and in a most ugly and despicable way.
Well the federalist papers make it clear that the second ammendment is intended to keep a tyranical government at bay, and the firearms in this article would easily meet that standard.
Or a conscious one, deciding that since the restriction is unconstitutional, it need not be obeyed.
We have many unconstitutional alleged "laws" on the books, and they will almost certainly remain there until enough people challenge them to make them an issue.
If that was his intent, he needs to have a LOT of money to work with, and LOTS of supporters.
No, I'm not. And rather than repeating myself, you might read all my posts on this thread. I've specifically answered that question before.
My advice: Get the biggest tank you can afford...
An obvious typo, they were of course refering to the dreaded .1234 caliber assault-sniper-machinegun-rifle.
It's all Bush's fault.
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