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A Hot-Selling Weapon, an Inviting Target (fairly neutral article on AR-15 type rifles from the NYT)
New York Times ^
| 3 June 2007
| Andrew Park
Posted on 06/03/2007 1:07:14 PM PDT by RKV
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I know the NYT doesn't qualify as a news source, but thought you might enjoy this article. The link is on the free side of their site, too, so no registration is required.
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:07:20 PM PDT
by
RKV
To: RKV
Nice quote from Ted Nugent also...
Black rifles are cool. Case closed. The more the better.
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:09:18 PM PDT
by
RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
To: bang_list
FYI and thanks to www.ArmsandtheLaw.com
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:10:10 PM PDT
by
RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
To: RKV
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:15:35 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
To: RKV
Mr. Zumbo, chastened by the outcry that his black-rifle comments set off, says he hopes to resume writing about hunting and to revive his popular cable television show, which was put on hiatus when it lost sponsors after the blog post. He says his time at Mr. Nugents ranch reminded him that gun owners have to reject banning any firearm, lest it open the door to banning them all. He also says that, like it or not, black rifles are now mainstream.
Having met the people who shoot these things, they were regular folks; they werent sinister people who were bent on causing harm, they werent hostile people, he says. They were interested in the guns because they were fun to shoot.
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:18:20 PM PDT
by
LetGoNow
To: LetGoNow
I want to give Zumbo the benefit of the doubt on his rehabilitation, but the stuff he said was so hateful and ill informed I still have my doubts. Of course, the NYT thinks anyone who shoots any gun of any type is “sinister.”
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:21:12 PM PDT
by
RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
To: RKV
terrorist rifles. How about "SWAT Team rifles"?
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:22:18 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: RKV
Yeah, all we have is the Slimes version... who knows what the rest of the story is?
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:22:24 PM PDT
by
LetGoNow
To: RKV
The M16 made a certain amount of sense in a jungle war in which you saw the enemy from 50’ away. In wars in mountain and desert terrain, it is problematical, and that’s aside from the question of having exhaust gas blowing straight back into bolt carrier parts. People who collect guns should have one of them; for an only gun, I’d not consider it.
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:22:29 PM PDT
by
rickdylan
To: RKV
![](http://www3.50megs.com/jeanplam/images/sks56.jpg)
Twice the stopping power. One-fifth the price.
To: RKV
Lots of people lately talk about showing loyalty to the Republicans or defending Bush because of the amnesty deal. Personally I don't feel that way about elected officials. I want my elected officials to be afraid of me. I want them to be afraid that if they make one false step, then they're going to have to answer to a bunch of people who are armed and can back up their intentions. I want them to be afraid for their lives, and then I want them to legislate that way... as if one wrong step will be their end.
The Republicans in government aren't my friends. They are the least offensive vermin available. And the second amendment is the original "check and balance".
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:25:00 PM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: tcostell
The Republicans in government aren't my friends. They are the least offensive vermin available. And the second amendment is the original "check and balance".Whoa there pal, you're starting to sound like one of the founding fathers.
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:27:14 PM PDT
by
umgud
("When seconds count, the police are just 10 minutes away!")
To: RKV
I just built a beauty of an AR, so count me in the EBR fan club. I started with a California off-list CMMG stripped lower, a Bushmaster lower parts kit and A2 stock and a modified grip to make it California legal.
I topped it off with a JP Enterprises JP-15 18” upper, Leupold 1 - 4 x 20mm scope and a JPoint red dot mounted at a 45° on the handguard.
It is a tack driver...and as evil looking as you could want. So thanks Zumbo.
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:28:16 PM PDT
by
telebob
To: rickdylan
6.5 Grendel, uses the same lower as the AR. "First unveiled in May 2003 at the Blackwater Training facility in NC, the 6.5 Grendel® out-shot the 7.62 NATO at range with half the recoil. Still supersonic at 1200 yards, the 6.5 Grendel® delivered superior external ballistics to the 7.62 NATO." http://www.alexanderarms.com/grendel.htm
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:32:17 PM PDT
by
RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
To: tcostell
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:35:12 PM PDT
by
RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: tcostell
Lots of people lately talk about showing loyalty to the Republicans or defending Bush because of the amnesty deal. Personally I don't feel that way about elected officials. I want my elected officials to be afraid of me. I want them to be afraid that if they make one false step, then they're going to have to answer to a bunch of people who are armed and can back up their intentions. I want them to be afraid for their lives, and then I want them to legislate that way... as if one wrong step will be their end.The Republicans in government aren't my friends. They are the least offensive vermin available. And the second amendment is the original "check and balance".
I nominate this for post of the month.
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:41:46 PM PDT
by
cryptical
(The Dining Cryptographers always wait until Bruce Schneier has been served.)
To: pabianice
A friend of mine has one of these because both the gun and the ammo are not expensive. I have shot it, cool for plinkin’, but I forgot the name of it.
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:46:08 PM PDT
by
Stayfree
(*************************Get your copy of The Fred Factor by David Gill at Capitol Hill Comedy.com)
To: RKV
We were never claiming that every buyer of an assault weapon is a criminal or is a potential mass killer, says Dennis Hennigan of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington.
But in 1994, Shmucky Chuck Schumer was: “These killing machines are the weapon of choice of drug traffickers, violent youth gangs and the seriously deranged bent on revenge through mass murder.
To: RKV
Having met the people who shoot these things, they were regular folks; they werent sinister people who were bent on causing harm, they werent hostile people, he says. They were interested in the guns because they were fun to shoot.
So he wrote his idiot article before researching the subject,Hum, typical journalist I see!
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:50:31 PM PDT
by
ontap
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