It figures that this twit is from Massachusetts.
I seem to be missing the words "organized militia" and "tended armory" in my copy of the Constitution.
One more pinhead trying to beat the long-dead horse of the meaning of "militia" in the 2nd Amendment.
Good grief, man. Even liberal judges have long since conceded that the 2nd Amendment really does mean that ordinary citizens have the right to their guns.
Find a more closely contested issue upon which to pontificate.
This guy hasn't spent much time in East LA, or Chicago's south side, or many other inner-city neighborhoods.
He's the kind of guy who would recommend taking a knife to a gunfight, I guess.
Non-criminals should all be dis-armed, in his estimation.
This guy is majoring in minors and minoring in majors.
This idiot (okay, to be fair, I'll call him misinformed) is confusing hunting wild game with the real purpose of the 2nd Amendment. Plus, he has the militia thing all wrong.
Hunting with AR-15s is exactly what the 2A is about, and the prey are not deer and elk, but tyrants.
The definition of "rifle" precludes it from being a smoothbore.
So did Bernie write his letter with a 1789-style quill, on 1789-style parchment, and mail it to the paper via horseback??
Just another liberal twit alert!
No, but here in Florida, they work great on wild pigs. I've used an old SP1 with 55gr soft points on hogs around here for thirty years now with great results. Plus there's no bluing to go all rusty in the first hour afield.
AR-15s are also good for shooting lots of other things. What those things are, I leave up to the reader to surmise.
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"Automatic shotgun?" Does anyone know where I can purchase one?
Fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity . - Sigmund Freud
Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.) - Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD)
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. - Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to his nephew
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Gun control laws increase the power of government and the criminal element over the average citizen and serve no other purpose. - Robert E. Lee
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Just one final statement. I've been sitting here getting more and more fed up with all of this talk about these, pieces of machinery, having no legitimate sporting purpose, no legitimate hunting purpose, people, that is not the point of the second amendment! The second amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our right, all of our right to be able to protect our selves from all of you guys up there. And nobody's talked about that. Senator Moynahan, I think this is today's paper, Monday, listen to this, a quote from Senator Moynahan, "I think that the United Nations has proven itself a failed instrument in Bosnia. It won't allow the Bosnians to defend themselves and it hasn't defended the Bosnians. I think that we should arm the Bosnians". End quote. I think that Schindlers list should be required viewing for everybody in this room. Thank you. - Dr. Suzanna Gratia, Killeen massacre survivor who watched as her parents were murdered because she obeyed Texas law and left her handgun locked in her car. Appearing before Rep Schumer's committee hearings on the assault weapons ban
Using cross-sectional time-series data for U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992, we find that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly. - Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns John R. Lott, Jr., School of Law Univ. of Chicago
"We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest ... So then we'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time .... The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of guns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of *all* handguns and *all* handgun ammunition -- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal." -- Pete Shields, Chairman Emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc. ( "The New Yorker", July 26, 1976 )
This idiot needs a reading comprehension course. The second amendment says nothing about a tended armory. Furthermore, it does not "give" any rights to an "organized militia", but rather asserts that the "right OF THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Note that the authors of the amendment were very specific in asserting this as a right of the people, not of a militia.
It wasn't a wiggly way and it wasn't a smoothbore. It was rifled. That's why it's called a rifle.
"Anyone needing an AR-15 or a Kalashnikov to hunt deer or elk probably needs a new pair of glasses first. Anyone needing an automatic shotgun to hunt pheasants, rabbits or partridge probably needs a prescription from a neurologist to reduce finger tremors or fight off tension."
MOLON LABE Bernie.
There is no "automatic shotgun" available to hunters. Indeed, I know of none manufactured for any reason. An automatic shotgun would shoot multiple shells repeatedly with one pull of the trigger.
Semi-automatic shotguns, on the other hand, are the norm for duck and goose hunting. One pull of the trigger, one shell shot, with an automated reloading for the next trigger pull. For example, here's Jon Carry with one:
Perhaps the author should check in with their former Presidential Candidate on the nature and use of shotguns before commenting on them.