Posted on 05/20/2012 10:45:08 PM PDT by Axenolith
California has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. But one wouldn’t know that going to the firing range these days. AR-15s and AK-47s are the must-have guns of choice. How can that be?
Every time California tightens up the assault weapons ban, the gun industry finds a way around it. The latest example involves a tiny device...
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
When I left in 1974, it was still a conservative, pro-business, pro-growth place. So don’t blame me.
BTW the chinese copied the C96 and used it during the Boxer rebellion.
They invented that side ways “gangsta style”
They would hold the pistol sideways on full auto to use the inherent muzzle rise as a room sweeper.
The place was still cool in 1982 hen I arrived.
Ten years later... not so much.
How? Its a fixed mag gun.
It is a historically important firearm and a lot of fun to shoot.
1981
BTW
My Grandfather served on the China road
Do I constantly have to remind you Californiphobes that Jim Robinson and Free Republic’s servers reside in California?
As a young officer, Winston Churchill carried one of those during the Boer war. The old broom handle was quite popular.
My late father was at Saipan, New Caledonia, the battle for Okinawa, China occupation at Tsing Tao, Korean war and early Vietnam.
I loved the Corps series, in fact I have them all. He is a great writer of military events.
Yes he did.
As I said, it’s historically important.
Your Pop got around.
He was in communications, so he was busy. I remember my mom converting one of his old uniforms to my size at 3 or 4 years old with a little pint-sized bolt-action toy rifle. They’d dress me up like that to visit him at the commo platoon he was in charge of.
These 'Bullet Buttons' have been around for years. Somehow, CA State Senator Leland "Rerand" Yee found out about them during the time he wasn't shoplifting or cruising for hookers in San Francisco, and he's so mad he's practically about to hurl the shark fin soup and boiled cat meat that he had for dinner.
I used to live in that douchebag's district. One day a bunch of Chinese ladies came to my door asking me if I was voting for Rerand and I slammed the door in their faces.
Anyway, all this CBS report will do is sell more 'California-legal assault rifles', but if a bill ever does come to the floor banning guns in California it's a guarantee that it will pass both houses and get signed by Governor Egghead Brown.
The California Department of Justice might urge caution on this because of ex post facto laws concerning legally owned CA military-type semiauto rifles.
Plenty of fun watching it play out.
Cool.
Most if my family don’t understand the Military members.
We just lost one last week. He was a signalman on the USS Forestall in Vietnam
RIP Uncle
Looks like the sights might be a bit obstructed.... were you just supposed to shoot from the hip?
That was a stripper clip. You mated the populated clip to the top of the weapon with the bolt open, pushed down on the top round, and they fed into the magazine (which in the C96 was actually a double-stack fixed box mag) and hopefully latched in place. You then removed the empty stripper clip, which closed the bolt and readied the weapon for action. It is more than a little fiddly and was easy to screw up when you had all the time in the world to load, more so under stress.
Here is a video of the basic sequences for a Broomhandle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2a5N7ftQ5g
Of course, not knowing anything about weapons, they didn't realize that anyone with the smallest amount of experience could re-load another 10 round mag in a couple of seconds and continue on their rampage.
2. So now, any CA magazine loaded rifle needs a pen type device to push a pin so the magazine can be extracted and supposedly slow down the carnage.
Really? I've seen the set up while trying to decide which mag-fed rifle to buy. Geeze, again, it would take all of 3 seconds for the bad guy to pull the device out of his pocket and push that stupid button to release the magazine and put another in. These anti-gun people are just damn a** stupid.
Here's idea Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, allow everyone to open carry in Calif and watch the gangsters back off. The lowest crime rates are in the highest open carry and CCW States! It's a fact! Don't believe me? Check FBI statistics.
You want Los Angeles and San Francisco to have less crime, then let citizens carry!!! How often do you or anyone see responsible carrying citizens fire their open carry or CCW weapons in other States? How often? Give me a number. Doubt you can.
I can give you countless times (Web stories) that good citizens have used their 2nd Amendment rights to defend themselves against home invasions, car-jackings, rape, murder, mayhem. Shall I go on Mr. Brown? The stats are there for you to read. Do some research.
Oops, I forgot, you think that if you were to outlaw guns, then they will all disappear? All guns will magically fade into the mist? All the gangsters will have NO access to weapons, right? There will be no underground access or international access to weapons, right? I can't believe how naive you people are about weapons.
I have legal weapons in accordance with California and Federal law. I have no children in the house where they are stored and none are loaded with ammunition. However, if ANYONE attempts to invade my home and threaten the life of myself or my wife, I will defend such as is my right.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.