Posted on 04/08/2018 1:12:32 PM PDT by marktwain
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post 4073 in Marshall, Michigan was the site of a class to teach people to build AR-15 rifles. The class had been scheduled for months. This was the third year the popular class was held at the post. Chris Walden of Walden's Firearms taught the class to about 60 participants. This year was a little different a professor from Albion College, W. Jeffrey Wilson organized a protest of their peaceful, voluntary activity.
No one at the VFW post or Chris buckled under to the bullying of the protesters. The protest drew national attention. The protesters numbered about 30, half as many as the people who were learning to build AR-15 rifles. From counton2.com:
Chris Walden teaches the class and sells the parts used. He pointed out that all of the guns have serial numbers, are registered and are sold only to those who legally can own them.
Walden said there was never any talk of delaying the class after the massacre in Florida last month that left 17 dead. The shooter used an AR-15.
“There's always significant things going on and if we tried to weave that between whatever tragedy and anything else, I'm not sure we'd ever find a good time,” Walden said. “Now's as good a time as any.”
Protesters who came out Tuesday say the very idea of creating more of these guns is a terrible idea.
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Would love to see one here in Reno.
No one cares what you think “professor”.
“No one at the VFW post or Chris buckled under to the bullying of the protesters.“
It’s a pity the attendees didn’t beat the living snot out of these “protesters”.
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LOVE THIS..!
Never been in a VFW post but it one nearby had a class like this, I’d surely attend.
But they were thinking about it.
It’s not even building. ARs are assembled like Lego blocks.
Where’s the chain saw?
Sure, I suppose, but the class is probably more about what really works and what doesn’t, what’s worthwhile and what isn’t.
Every able-bodied American capable of bearing arms should know how to assemble an AR-15 it is so simple
I think its kinda dunb, build your own from what? Parts from Home Depot?.
Either make everything available copied from current military rifles or just a class on how to make a gun from plumbing hardware.
Because little by little you won’t be able to buy any part, plans or even tooling.
Yes, we do this at home and I’d like to get the boys to an event like this. They want black powder and I’ve promised them kits in 2-3 years. Still remember making mine back in junior high or high school—a 50 cal. Thompson Renegade.
I love build classes. I’ve run an AK build class for 5 years. We just tease the AR guys about the Lego building. A rifleman should know how every part on their rifle works. These types of classes help that knowledge.
That is what needs to be taught, how to make a rifle from dam near the most primitive of parts available, this is even after ammo, scopes, primers, milling instructions are made out to be illegal.
Go right back to making Brown Bess muskets.
AK builds are FAR more complicated.
There is nothing “after” arms are made “illegal”.
Where is The “High Beam Switchblade?”
Needs more scopes!
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