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To: johnny7
All of the groups and individuals listed are supposed to be anti-gun. I can't speak for the Kansas City Chiefs or Moon Zappa, but I'm not anti-gun. I think soldiers, the police and certain other law enforcement officials should have guns. Civilians, however, should be required to demonstrate a good reason for having firearms. We should go to great lengths to keep guns out of the hands of children, criminals and insane people. All guns should be registered

Sorry .. but he IS anti-guns

And when did we start selling guns to children??

54 posted on 10/13/2003 6:24:59 AM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
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To: Mo1
And when did we start selling guns to children??

We used to, before the nanny state decided it knew better than parents. And not that long ago either. I know I could buy ammunition before I turned 18, which was in 1967, but I never had enough money to buy a gun before then, although I did own a 20 ga pump shotgun. However it was the 1968 gun control act, which banned dealer sales to minors, that is under 21 for handguns, and under 18 for long guns. (Not ancient history to those of us who are getting kind of ancient ourselves). You could buy 'em through the Sears Catlog (they even had their own "house brand" of ammunition and guns, as did Wards. (JC Higgens and Western Field, respectively). So about the time I got enough money to buy guns, most especially a handgun, I couldn't anymore. For awhile they still sold them through their catalogs, but you had to appear in person to pick them up, and of course you had to meet the legal, but unconstitutional, age requirements. Ever since then, a kid could be old enough to be handed a 1911A1 or the latter 9mm substitute, and be told (in effect) "prepare to defend your self", by Uncle Sugar, but couldn't buy one to protect his wife or girlfriend, not mention himself while off duty in some of the "wonderful and friendly" locals off-post where he might have to live, due to his meager pay. He couldn't even buy ammunition for a handgun. Until '86 you had to show ID and a record was kept for every box of handgun ammo, including .22 rimfire, that you bought. (I'm on "the list" for a bunch of boxes of .22 short, which I shot through my wife's grandfather's Browning semi-auto rifle in that chambering. After I went on active duty, I used my military officer's ID instead of my driver's license, just because it seemed even sillier that way, and embarrassed the poor clerk, who probably weren't old enough to the buy stuff themselves in many cases)

152 posted on 10/14/2003 12:47:12 AM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: Mo1
Sorry .. but he IS anti-guns

Technically he's not, but he is anti arms rights, and thus a domestic enemy of the Constitution. Seems I remember taking an oath that had something to do with "domestic enemies" of the Constitution. Hmmmm. (No I'm not suffering Senior Moment, I remember it quite clearly)

153 posted on 10/14/2003 12:50:34 AM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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