Posted on 05/07/2018 8:38:53 AM PDT by rktman
It must be nice walking through life believing that the paradise the founders built here in North America is the natural state of man, and that we can therefore forgo the difficult and dangerous tasks associated with defending it. But some of us don’t have the luxury of illusions. We know that peace and civilization are not the natural state of man, and that the black swan events that we have somehow convinced ourselves could never happen do happen with startling regularity. And this is why you should buy guns and ammunition.
Specifically, you should own, at a minimum, a modern semiautomatic rifle like an AR-15 that is simple to operate, easily accessorized for the individual user, reliable, and rugged. Liberals call these “assault rifles,” though they are not. Insisting that liberals be accurate when describing what they seek to ban is “gunsplaining,” a heinous macroaggression that is right up there with assuming someone’s gender on the Big List O’ Liberal Sins.
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Or a mini-30.
The same people who say civic breakdown can’t happen here are the same people promoting policies that let to such happening in Venezuela. You know, where the only people with guns - the government - enforce starvation on the disarmed.
Im thinkin’ Maduro ain’t havin’ the same issues as Jose blow is havin’.
There is a reason not many militaries used lever actipns. I seriously doubt any lever action is anywhere near as reliable as a good AR15.
AK all day.
DiFi should know....her husband was distributing Norinco (Chinese national gun mfgr) semi auto AK-47 knockoffs. Every time she stood up and demonized them sales of hubby’s gun imports went through the roof! If they are pols they’re liars/crooks. Follow the money....
The 1960s called and they want their AR review back. As I'm sure you already know, chrome lining the barrel and chamber, and using the correct powder that the gas system was designed around, along with rescinding the stuped "never needs cleaning" doctrine fixed the jamming issues with the M16 by 1970.
As for the AK, AR vs. AK mud test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9APzYqwXckw
AR vs. AK sand test:
You have no idea of what a fine design the AR is. There’s several million of them in civilian hands.
The faults you cite were the results of the Army using the wrong gunpowder in the ammo and the failure to issue cleaning kits. Those failures were overcome early in the weapons service. It is now a very reliable weapon and after being around for nearly 60 years a replacement weapon that can justify it’s use by advantage vrs. cost has not been found. (The Europeans are pushing for the US to adopt one of their designs, but at an high cost for little gain over Eugene Stoner’s rifle.)
Shot the “m-16”, and derivatives in uniform for 10 years.
All “5.56” caliber. Did have the opportunity to liberate an AK, from somebody who didn’t need to use it anymore.
I liked that better, although not the firearm of uniform issue at the time.
I admit that both basic designs will do as required, and then some, before the addition of ‘tacti-cool doodads’.
However, today, both rifle designs are way above my budget range, being in the group David Hogg wants to up and die, soon.
Therefore, although it is not ‘semi-anything’, and you ‘can’t hang doodads all over it’, I’ll choose the old standard cowboy rifle in a pistol caliber with enough ‘whump’ to return to the one-shot rule.
(A .357 125 grain JSP out of an 18-inch barrel will eviscerate, I repeat, eviscerate a four-legged coyote at 100 yards. now do the math for a two-legged one.)
Yup. Like my SS 38/357 lever action with my Dan Wesson 6” revolver.
And you can’t argue with science. Ask any liberal.
Yep. PSA had a special where you could buy the kit for $299 plus shipping. And it’s not hard to find a $50 receiver. Heck, even Colt sells one for $750.
Confiscation? You're worrying about something that will never happen.
There are upwards of four hundred million guns in this country, and more are being manufactured and purchased every day. Even if every citizen were willing to peacefully turn them over, it would be logistically impossible to collect them all.
Of course, that's a leftist's utopian vision of how Americans would disarm. It obviously wouldn't go down that way at all.
First off, a significant percentage of the population would flat-out refuse to relinquish their guns, and would dare the feral government to come and take them. If that number were only one in ten, you're talking about 32 million pissed off patriots who are prepared to fight to the death for their freedom.
That number is six times bigger than the entire U.S. military, and orders of magnitude larger than the 15,000-strong insurgent army that held our entire military at bay for ten years in Iraq..
In short, you can't disarm Americans through force, so quit worrying about it.
They still do have a revolving $299 special. You have to add a rear sight, magazine, and perhaps a gun case, so that’s why I said under $400.
Just yesterday, I built my first AR from a PSA kit I bought online and a stripped lower I bought at a gun show. My kit was one of the upgraded units with a free float barrel, polished trigger, and Magpul MOE furniture for $415 shipped.
I own three Guns that are “Registered”, my most recent purchases. They are located in the “Registered” Gun Cabinet.
Their Siblings miss them, but it’s best to keep them separated should the need arise.
Then there are the ones that weren’t put through the emotional baggage that is a Background Check. Those are the really old guys.
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