Posted on 05/16/2008 9:06:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
McCain keeps mentioning hunting, hunting....as if the Second Amendment has a damn thing to do with hunting!
Senator, the founding fathers intended for the citizens of the country to have firearms so that they, the citizens, would have a means to overthrow a tyrannical government if such as government should every come into being. Sheesh!
Correct.
I’m not gonna trust him.
A liberal RINO who forms a coalition with the drunkard Ted Kennedy threatens gun rights.
You are saying that McCain is worse than Hillary or Obama on guns? Nonsense. McCain is about a B+ on guns. Hillary and Obama are both Fs.
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Which is precisely the way I see it.
McCain is unlikely (or less likely) to appoint judges who will confiscate firearms; and/or will define the Second Amendment out of existence.
And then...we can institute some common-sense gun laws so that we don't have kids being shot on the streets of cities like Chicago," Obama said...
As always, Obama hasn't a clue as to what laws already exist and will steadfastly refuse to be specific on what "common-sense gun laws" just might be.
Says the man sporting an "F-" from Gun Owners of America.
What's next, a claim that they threaten free speech rights? Amnesty for tens of millions of illegals? Global governance via the global warming scam?
Pot, meet kettle.
McCain promoting the Bill of Rights?? The sky must be falling.
McCain's GOA rating is "F-."
"That's one of the disagreements we've had," LaPierre told the Louisville Courier-Journal. "On the other hand, Senator McCain is the only one in the race that has a pro-gun record of any kind."
I'm so tired of this "background check" BS being mischaracterized by the press. I just have to wonder if it's really due to stupidity rather than being devious as the law as it stands gets quoted time after time after time.
Purchases at gun shows across the US are subject to background checks. No ifs, buts, hunting, fishing, tyranny or anything else. One more time for clarity for our presstitute friends:
PURCHASING A GUN AT A GUNSHOW IS SUBJECT TO A BACKGROUND CHECK.
Perhaps I'm just not putting it right.
IF YOU WANT TO BUY A GUN AT A GUNSHOW, YOU MUST UNDERGO A BACKGROUND CHECK.
Think they understood that? Nah. Me neither. But, I do have a gunshow to go to tomorrow. Yay!!!!! And I may buy a gun at the gunshow or outside of the gunshow!!!
This is the pot calling the kettle black indeed. Just more election posturing.
Most likely a .38 special or maybe a 1911. But notice he never said he used one. His weapons were 500 lb bombs, by necessity dumb ones, attached to Heinemann's Hotrod, aka; The Scooter, the Tinkertoy, or the A-4 Skyhawk. Pretty much like these:
His 2004 rating from the NRA was C+. That's about the same as a D or D- for a Dem. Don't know about yours but my Mama didn't pay for anything below a B, and they weren't worth much.
Obama voted to ban almost all ammo and voted against allowing self-defense pleas when someone uses a gun in a gun ban zone - all of Chicago. He supports the so called "assault" weapons ban. He supports a total handgun ban. He supports frivolous lawsuits against firearms manufacturers. He opposed Roberts and Alito.
McCain isn't perfect. We all know his gun shows stance and McCain-Feingold. At the same time he voted wrong on gun shows, he voted against the AWB and to stop frivolous lawsuits. He signed the DC v Heller brief that broke with the BS third way approach given by the Bush administraion. He also voted for Roberts, Clarence Thomas, and Alito.
McCain isn't a gun owner's first choice. He isn't the last choice either among Republicans and is better than Romney or Giuliani.
We could have done better, but also could do worse.
Only if you buy from a licensed dealer. Your state may have different laws, but federal law only requires the check if you buy from a federally licensed dealer. That's the same if you buy at a gun show, or in a gun or pawn shop. Just as you do not need to have the check if you buy a gun from a person who is not a dealer, whether you do it in his house, your house, or at a gun show.
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