Posted on 12/26/2012 12:38:40 PM PST by Perseverando
In 1996, John Ross penned what has become a classic story of what might happen when the federal government oversteps its bounds and clamps down too hard on guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans. So chilling is the story, so graphic in its descriptions of how some Americans might fight back, that Mr. Ross and his wife were hounded and intimidated by federal authorities.
Yet the title of his novel speaks loudly about what the gun-grabbers can expect when they legislate from emotion rather than fact. There, in Unintended Consequences, many of them lost their fictional lives. Here, in real-life America, we have magnets that draw armed lunatics into schools, malls, and other venues where guns are banned.
So we need more gun laws! We need to reinstitute the assault weapons ban!
Let's recall.
In 1994, Congress implemented a so-called "assault weapons" ban. Basically, this law forbade the sale of guns that had two or more "assault" features. Pistol grips, telescoping stocks, bayonet lugs, extended magazine tubes, flash suppressors, and other accessories could suddenly turn a "lawful" gun into the singularly loathsome "assault weapon." In fact, when I added an extended magazine tube to a Benelli Super 90 shotgun before I first removed the pistol grip, I was, for the 20 minutes it took me to pull the pistol grip, committing a felony.
The law also banned "high-capacity" magazines. Henceforth, no magazine could be manufactured containing more than ten rounds.
Okay, fine and good. We all made do. We lived. We got really fast at making magazine changes. No one came to arrest me.
But the law was clearly foolish. Something not appreciated by the gun ban folks is that it takes barely a half-second to drop a magazine out of a handgun and ram a fresh one home.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What does THAT have to do with the Second Amendment?
“If you buy this book on-line, your name goes on a watch list at DHS. And no, I’m not making this up.”
If you served in the military, your name is on the DHS list. The one matter the fascist federal gestapo didn’t account for is that 400-lb fat, waddling DHS slobs can’t easily find cover on a battlefield unless they’re fighting in California’s redwood park or at the old Mad Tea Party ride at Disneyland.
Fatty, fatty two-by-four
Can’t get through the kitchen door.
Semper Fi,
TS
What I really noticed was how high-powered revolvers became more common. I’m thinking along the lines of the S&W500 or the Taurus Judge shooting .410 shotgun rounds.
So I shouldn't mention I have my hardbound copy, still as good as the day it was printed new, sitting less than 10 feet away from me because I'll get put on a DHS watch list?
I thought I got put on that list when I bought 4 100rd .223 Magazine's for my AR-15's!
It's either the Red List or the Blue List for you.
>> high-powered revolvers became more common. I’m thinking along the lines of ... the Taurus Judge shooting .410 shotgun rounds...
If it’s a “high powered revolver” you’re seeking, you can do WAY better than a Judge loaded with .410. Trust me — I have one.
Post # 8 of this thread...
A later poster said it wasn’t working for him...
This has “Twilight Zone” written all over it...
>> This has “Twilight Zone” written all over it...
Yeah, or “Operator Error”.
I had no problem downloading it and... uh hang on a sec, will ya, there’s some guys in ski masks and flak jackets at the door...
Generally, if I’m close enough to see the ski-mask, I can hit it.
Hehe... Could be.
Then again, my Son is five and he disagrees with my Wife and I almost daily. Maybe tough character just breeds true.
Semper fi...
If you are facing five perps you deserve to die.
>> Generally, if I’m close enough to see the ski-mask, I can hit it.
That’s great, if it IS “the ski mask” and not a “ski-masked team”.
Here’s a joke I just thought up.
Question: why are they wanting a TEN round magazine limit?
Answer: Because a BATF raid van carries eleven agents.
Badda bing! I’ll be here all night... don’t forget to tip the waitress...
One day they WILL overreach and trigger a civil war.
The author makes one mistake about what might have happened had the late Robert Bork been confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. Bork’s passing would not have left Obama with a chance to undo the 5-4 majority recognizing the 2nd Amendment as an individual liberty. In reality, it would have handed him the opportunity to preserve for another generation a 5-4 majority claiming that it’s a collective right instead; a 5-4 majority that Bork would have been part of.
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I tried to find this book to buy it, and it is now so rare that it’s over $200. Did the government buy up all the available copies? It sounds to me that it would be profitable for the publisher to have a new printing.
The publisher has had a note up on the U.C. order page that a paperback volume will be released soon. The notice has been there for YEARS. Damned shame, that, because John is literally the father of a genre...
I once found a .PDF of the novel named “uc.pdf” but it would be a copyright infringement to distribute it. I hadn’t a clue my hardbound edition was worth THAT much...
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