Posted on 02/23/2018 11:21:22 AM PST by DCBryan1
Guns and I go back a long way.
My father was a champion skeet shooter. A picture of him aiming his favorite pump skyward has pride of place in our living room. He owned fine rifles and shotguns, and he valued them.
My first experience with pulling a trigger came late, by family standards. I was already 7 or 8 when my dad and “Uncle” George took me out back of Old Lily’s house and handed me a sawed-off shotgun (illegal then and now) kept handy for woodchucks and rattlesnakes. The recoil didn’t knock me off my feet, but my shoulder ached for weeks.
I’m blessed to have few material regrets, but I still feel a sting when I recall how, after my father’s bankruptcy, we had to sell his guns to put food on the table. Those arms were important to him and, thus, to me.
I served in the US Army, including unforgettable years in an infantry battalion. I fired my share of automatic weapons, from M16A1s to machine guns and even Kalashnikovs. (Let’s not talk about dud-grenade disposal . . .)
And I’m a gun owner. As I write these lines, there’s an 1858 Tower musket behind me and a Colt on my desk.
But I believe, on moral, practical and constitutional grounds, that no private citizen should own an automatic weapon or a semi-automatic weapon that can easily be modified for automatic effects.
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“Does he still talk in his high squeaky voice?....”
Depends on what he’s got in his mouth. (He ain’t “Peters” for nothing!”
Indeed.
I’m a Communist”
There fixed it.
Can he prove that he is not a Zombie?
I see no reason that it should be any different in these modern times.
Amen on the target shooting & hunting.
I bought mine for one reason: to kill humans that are attempting to do the same to me or others.
The Brits came to Lexington to confiscate all weapons - even cannon.
Santa Anna wanted one; too...
I can think of a reason you didn't: it ain't TRUE!!
The legislation is considered liberal[4] and allows the free purchase of semi-automatic, but not fully automatic,
firearms by Swiss citizens and foreigners with permanent residence.[note 2][3]
Generally prohibited arms are:
Well; some bozo manged to get it partly right in the newspaper the other day.
It read “assault-style rifle”.
only if they manage to find a body.
This is why it is ALWAYS wise to have a shovel handy; near your weapon.
We are killing future American citizens at the rate of about 3,300 every DAY in this country.
Planned Parenthood has more than half of the kills.
His only call has been supporting Hitlery and her call for going to war with Russia.
He’s a cowardly democrat.
What a tool this pud is.
Semiautomatic actually puts the next round in the chamber to fire.That’s why there is single action and double action .If the next round is not ready to be fired by the,striker or firing pin without any other mechanical movement it is not semi auto.
Semiautomatic actually puts the next round in the chamber to fire.That’s why there is single action and double action .If the next round is not ready to be fired by the,striker or firing pin without any other mechanical movement it is not semi auto.
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