Posted on 02/17/2015 8:32:24 AM PST by rktman
Bubba wanted to limit ammo. The count would have included primers. This was not allowed by congress. Today congress will bend over and present for most of zer0’s unconstitutional shenanigans.
As reported: ...had an arsenal of a dozen firearms in the home he shared with his wife, along with a large stash of ammunition.
An unbiased report: Suspect had a substantial number of firearms and a large supply of ammunition in the home.
Guess he didn't own a Bible, because if he did that would be mentioned too.
And his radio was tuned to Rush Limbaugh's station!!!!!
P R O P A G A N D A
At one time the federal law said an arsenal was 12 firearms of the same caliber.
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I don’t know what the law says now... ( ; )
Perhaps someone with more recent knowledge will
inform us.
Great story...
I would worry about this guy inviting people he didn’t know in to see the collection.
Every gun is loaded. Always.
I never move a barrel across an object I would dislike a discharge to hit, regardless of the condition I know the gun to be in. I treat every gun as if loaded, even if I just checked.
My weapon is always pointed at the ground. When I walk through brush, I’ll carry it with the safety on and my hand cupping the trigger guard.
Went over to a friend’s home one evening. He had a few weapons and wanted to show them to me. He pulled one out to show me and waved it across my body while handling the weapon. I left. Didn’t go back.
“They” want it to say that civilians owning firearms is verboten. :>}
"Yeah?
Show this guy what an arsenal looks like...
"Sure thing, Ben."
Common sense will mitigate the two potential realities of running out of ammo and a single firearm malfunctioning at exactly the wrong time.
Grand pa said all guns in this house are loaded It’s unloaded guns that keep killing people.
An unbiased report: Suspect had a substantial number of firearms and a large supply of ammunition in the home.
My version of an unbiased report: Suspect had 12 firearms in the home he shared with his wife. There was also ammunition.
Possession of a huge arsenal means you only have your eye on a few more of most everything.
“Every gun is loaded. Always.
I never move a barrel across an object I would dislike a discharge to hit, regardless of the condition I know the gun to be in. I treat every gun as if loaded, even if I just checked.
My weapon is always pointed at the ground. When I walk through brush, I’ll carry it with the safety on and my hand cupping the trigger guard.”
EXACTLY! I behave the same way, and go ballistic against others who do not. Especially, where the barrel is pointed. And it also applies to surroundings such as across other’s property and in the direction of buildings known to be within range. It is never a guarantee that the weapon would never may discharge by itself. All it takes is one time. I like your safety and handling philosophy!
Depends – in the eyes of the gun grabbers more than 2 Is a “Huge Arsenal”
For those imbued with the cause of Liberty…. Well.. you can never have too many…..
MSM = 1) .22 rifle plus 100 rds. and 2)BB gun plus 500 BB’s
I had a friend that I had to work on to buy a pistol because she had been anti-gun for years, her husband also bought a pistol at the same time.
After a year or two they were interested in shotguns for skeet shooting, I then reminded her of the old bolt action 22 she had inherited when her favorite uncle had died (the hunting, park ranger) that she had not thought of as a gun, but as just a family heriloom.
I pointed out to her that she already owned 3 guns, and that now they wanted their individual shotguns for skeet, and that for target practice they may want some 22s, and for concealed carry some pistols different from the ones they had bought for the home, which were both revolvers.
Guns are like golf clubs, it is hard not to accumulate a variety since there is no such thing as a fit all gun.
Throw in a few family members, dad, mom, 2 or 3 kids, and you easily end up with a household of 15 or 20 guns, and families pass down their guns also, which contributes to the collection.
In the 1960s, in Houston, we kept our “arsenals” mostly on display, gun cabinets were usually in the living room, with extras on gun racks and closets in other parts of the house, and no one talked about “arsenals”.
If each firearm was of a different caliber, (something that reporters are putz’s about), then to have a box of ammunition for each, woulf be logical. (You determine WHICH kind of box I refer to.)
Me? I have two different design, different caliber-chambered firearms. (reporter ... does that mean two different designs, two different firearms, two different calibers???)
—9 days till 0bama reaches into your computer.—
No kidding man. I just got to the dozen count and now need a bigger gun safe. But my safe is WAY smaller than anything I have seen in Texas.
I guess you could say that I have safe envy. :-)
If one is a regular hunter:
A .22 for squirrel.
A shotgun, modified choke for bird hunting.
A shotgun, long barrel close choke magnum for ducks and geese.
A 22-250 or .243 for groundhogs.
A Winchester .270 for hunting antelope out west.
A .45-70 for bear in heavy cover, hunting or self protection. A real show stopper at close range.
Something magnum for bear in open country...maybe 7mm or .300 win mag.
An AK47 for a house gun.
Or/and a 12 Ga. 18” shotgun.
A .308 and/or .30-06 for hogs.
Any of the above for deer.
Several of each with different scopes for various ranges and lighting conditions.
For instance, a .270 win scoped for prairie dogs would not be very good for running antelope.
Now as for a side arm.....
The list is too long. A minimum of three or four.
And for all of the above, it pays to have several calibers in each type so that in the event of ammunition shortages you have a fall back.
And then there are those guns that we buy and never shoot just because they are so gorgeous.
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