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The political calculus on the gun issue has changed
The Hill, via MSN ^ | April 4, 2021 | Bill Scneider

Posted on 04/04/2021 6:19:21 AM PDT by libstripper

President Biden will find it difficult - if not impossible - to get bipartisan support in Congress for new gun control measures, like a new assault weapons ban, which passed with bipartisan support in 1994 and expired ten years later.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2damendment; banglist; guncontrol; politics
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To: SauronOfMordor
the Left has lots more people willing to engage in street battles than we do.

We disagree.

41 posted on 04/04/2021 7:52:50 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: libstripper

***like a new assault weapons ban***

They banned NOTHING. Manufacturers simply changed the nomenclature of the firearms, removed the flash suppressor, removed the bayonet lug (how many people in the US have been murdered by fixed bayonets since 1900?)and made the folding stock solid.

They also limited magazine rounds to 10 rounds but millions of higher capacity magazines were still in circulation. And if you know where to look you could get a magazine marked “For Police Use Only”.


42 posted on 04/04/2021 7:53:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: BobL

The government does not have the manpower or money to enforce the laws. Biden said so in 2013.

https://humanevents.com/2013/01/18/biden-we-cant-enforce-the-old-laws-so-we-need-more/


43 posted on 04/04/2021 7:57:15 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: glimmerman70

never tired to convert blanks to live rounds with projectiles.... somebody probably has done it or tired it.


44 posted on 04/04/2021 7:58:20 AM PDT by DOC44
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

remember ‘way back when’ and the Libs were telling ‘us’ that there was no way that 20 million ILLEGALS could be tracked down and deported so may as well ‘accept’ them?

Then, in the same breath, they suggested going door to door and collecting all weapons....

The ‘scary’ part is that people still listen to these fools and think they make sense....


45 posted on 04/04/2021 8:08:35 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 "Message to GOP "GO FUnd YOURSELF")
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To: mylife
The ban was ridiculous but “effective” was not the purpose.

The left wanted to get a ban in place, no matter the limited term, to begin the process, get Americans used to the concept & reality.

Then the “salami method” takes over and they whittle away the Second Amendment.

They, as usual, underestimated the majority and overplayed their plans.

46 posted on 04/04/2021 8:16:43 AM PDT by NativeSon ( )
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To: GailA

That hat is so big I could cut it out of my screen and wear it.


47 posted on 04/04/2021 8:25:32 AM PDT by Lockbar (Vlad the Impailer had all the answers.)
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To: glimmerman70
I have plenty of 22. After the unfortunate Sandy hook shooting my boss and I closed the shop and we split up and covered a large area and bought up all the 22 ammo we could find. After the hoarding and ammo shortage then we continued to buy.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have a sustained ammunition shortage! I don't argue with anyone's right to buy ammunition (other than the people who attempt to buy up all the ammunition to create an artificial shortage so they can then sell and gain an extortion level profit). However, it is the height of hypocriticy for an ammunition hoarder to complain about the scarcity and high price of ammunition.

48 posted on 04/04/2021 8:48:34 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: libstripper

Hidenbiden going after an EO means they didn’t have the votes.


49 posted on 04/04/2021 9:04:06 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: glimmerman70

Do people still make their own ammo?


50 posted on 04/04/2021 9:23:55 AM PDT by Karoo
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To: Erik Latranyi

Commodities are undergoing an enormous increase in price. Steel, copper, essentially everything. That, coupled with demand has made ammo more expensive.


51 posted on 04/04/2021 9:23:58 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: SauronOfMordor
 
 
the Left has lots more people willing to engage in street battles than we do.
 
Maybe that's the situation in your 'hood, but not mine.
 
 

52 posted on 04/04/2021 10:07:45 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: libstripper
The Hill's editors must have been horrified to print this generally objective article.

The article looks like complete BS to me. A few examples from memory:

* The article claims gun owners are 'single issue voters'. If that were true, we would win more elections, like we did in 1994 (when USA Today stated that almost one out of every three voters was a gun owner voting Republican). In fact, too many gun owners are generally asleep at the switch, and don't get off their sorry @sses until the Dems are ready to pass yet ANOTHER ban.

* The polling numbers cited in support of gun control are probably from 'push polls'. Picture questions like, "Would you support a ban on semi-automatic military-style assault weapons, in order to save the lives of thousands of children every year?" Heck, I'll bet half of those supposedly favoring a semi-auto ban, couldn't even define "semi-automatic firearm".

* The article states that 'Mr. Trump radicalized the Republican Party'. In fact, D@mocrats following Alinsky's playbook radicalized politics in this country, and Mr. Trump's nomination was a result of Americans responding to that change, NOT the cause of it.

In all likelihood, the article is intended to keep gun owners sitting on their butts (by suggesting that gun control efforts aren't going anywhere), while simultaneously getting the left-wing coolaide-drinkers united behind the push to ditch the US Senate filibuster, and pass the biggest federal gun ban in US history...

53 posted on 04/04/2021 10:20:37 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? (Joe & Jill went up the hill to screw the country over...)
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To: glimmerman70

Cowboy mounted shooting plus re-enactors. Blanks are also used to get gundogs and horses used to gunfire.


54 posted on 04/04/2021 10:30:01 AM PDT by Himyar (Comes A Stillness/ God Bless Robert E. Lee)
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To: NativeSon

But for Tom Delay, we might still be living under Clinton’s AWB.


55 posted on 04/04/2021 11:01:33 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Karoo
Hornady got started making ammo by swaying lead into spent .22 LR casings.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2Ad3k3kgg

56 posted on 04/04/2021 11:08:43 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: mylife; SauronOfMordor

And we’re still losing despite perhaps being a majority

You eschew violence

Fair enough

At what point would even u be ....at that point?

I just spent a week at PCB

I THINK WERE TOO FAT AND SLOVEN AND STUPID HONESTLY

PASTY BEHEMOTHS COVERED IN TRASHY INK....slurping down big bulls immersed in their phones playing silly games or doing Snapchat or Instagram

I mean some folks have to be stimulated every second awake by action on that device....often stupid pineapple games

that is a huge chunk of white America under 45

We are going to draw a revolutionary army from that ....


57 posted on 04/04/2021 11:24:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: libstripper

“The problem is: Straight partisan victories will be nearly impossible in the Senate as long as the filibuster is in force for non-taxing-and-spending legislation - like new gun laws.

“The filibuster is supposed to encourage bipartisanship - but given the new hyper-partisan reality, what it really encourages is gridlock.”

There it is. Why would The Hill be horrified to print that?


58 posted on 04/04/2021 11:26:46 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: DOC44

I guess the shell would have the primer in it so adjust the grains and put the lead in the end. Maybe. Lol. Not sure.


59 posted on 04/04/2021 11:54:01 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: Karoo

I would think maybe now more than ever.. maybe easier to get reload supplies than live ammo.


60 posted on 04/04/2021 11:57:37 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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