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If I had *led* or begun the headline of a news story with a number back in my own newspaper days, I believe my editor would have shot me with a machinegun.
1 posted on 06/30/2003 11:18:43 AM PDT by archy
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To: archy; *bang_list; Joe Brower; Shooter 2.5; Squantos
Montana oops ping!
2 posted on 06/30/2003 11:21:46 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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Either this reporter has their head up their typical arse in terming a Mini-14 an MG, or they are really referring to an AC-556.


3 posted on 06/30/2003 11:22:41 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." -- Sallust)
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It's always fun until somebody gets shot.
5 posted on 06/30/2003 11:23:43 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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Gun control advocates are licking their chops.
6 posted on 06/30/2003 11:24:44 AM PDT by tdadams
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Since when is a Ruger mini-14 a machine gun?
8 posted on 06/30/2003 11:25:03 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (South-south-west, south, south-east, east....)
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What are the chances that this Mini-14 is actually fully automatic (and therefore a "machine gun")?
12 posted on 06/30/2003 11:27:50 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tagline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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Well, my God! The woman had a machine gun!!!!
19 posted on 06/30/2003 11:54:34 AM PDT by zook
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I observe that in 15 comments, not a single expression of empathy toward the innocent victim of this shootin' safari has been expressed. Lotsa talk about how cool the guns are though.
20 posted on 06/30/2003 11:55:15 AM PDT by Company Man
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Always be sure of your target and what's beyond it...

Not to mention, some adult supervision might have been in order considering the hardware involved.

Left and Right range limits, anyone? This doesn't sound like a ricochet, more like a loss of muzzle control...

22 posted on 06/30/2003 11:58:42 AM PDT by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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A Min-14 is a machine gun? I don't think so.

"There will never outlaw your varmit rifle...they'll call it a machine gun first.
34 posted on 06/30/2003 12:21:26 PM PDT by PatrioticAmerican (If the only way an American can get elected is through Mexican votes, we have a war to be waged.)
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2 charged with accidentally shooting woman with machine gun

The article doesn't say anything about the machine gun the woman was carrying. : )

46 posted on 06/30/2003 12:53:30 PM PDT by new cruelty
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Well, no wonder they shot this woman - she had a machine gun, and on a tractor, no less. LOL
61 posted on 06/30/2003 3:18:37 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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The right to keep and bear arms does not automatically confer intelligence upon those who take advantage of the right. Stupid people often hurt innocent people. Sometimes they hurt people with guns.

It is not the gun. It is the stupid people, Stupid!

66 posted on 06/30/2003 3:53:11 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon
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This is journalistic malpractice.
83 posted on 07/01/2003 7:46:43 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (There ought to be a law against excessive legislation.)
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the boys, ages 13 and 16, were target practicing on Bisson Lane, south of Polson,

I find it hard to believe that there are no shooting ranges in Montana.
98 posted on 07/02/2003 9:58:35 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
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