[holymoly]

The last claim is the most subjective of all: "capable of accurately shooting targets over a mile away, or 2,000 yards."

Heck, .22 Rimfire has a "range" of a mile - it says so right on the box.

"WARNING Range 1 mile." (FYI: 1 mile = 1760 yards)

[dhs12345]

Don't forget trained Kamikaze birds. :)

[billnaz]

I hope I live long enough to see a politician with the stones to stand up and actively seek the repeal of NFA, GCA, and every other stupid gun law on the books.

The gun-grabbers are working overtime to take away our rights. They will be happy to disarm us either overnight or a little at a time. Every gun owner out there needs to join a gun rights organization of some kind. Our enemies are well-organized and well-financed. If we sit around and don't get as militant as they are, they will win.

[umgud]

How about an economy model? (Thunder 50)

[mmercier]

Terrorism is the wrong way for these nitwits to attack private ownership of firearms. The issues are incompatible.

Let them sell this tripe, as the average person who hears "terrorism" and "private ownership of firearms" in the same paragraph immediately thinks about buying (another?) gun for personal defense. against terrorists. It is that simple.

Years back, some local group got onto the right message that had real potential to harm the cause of private gun ownership.. Luckily they are nitwits and did not realize they hit on something with true potential.

[RJL]

Pictured on the front of the card was a civilian airliner with an illustration of a rifle scope's crosshairs centered to the nose of the plane

There is a reason the military used full auto machine guns instead of single shot semi-autos (pull the trigger it fires a single shot) to bring down airplanes in WWII.

I recently read that during WWII Americans fired 12,000 rounds for every downed aircraft, and that German records closely paralleled those findings.

Granted these were military aircraft, but they were also using full auto machine guns to try to bring them down.

I guess that liberals extrapolating Kerry's service record would figure a box of .50 caliber in solider Kerry's hands would be the end of a whole bomber attack group.

[El Gato]

This past weekend I was watching "Mail Call" on the History channel. The Gunny (yea I know it's only honorary because he was medically retired before reaching that exalted status) was doing a piece on the new semi-auto shotgun. That one has an 18.5 inch barrel, so would be legal under current (NFA) law. However the clip he showed to go along with his test firing, showed soldiers in MOUT operations using something much, much shorter. It looked like a Mossberg 590 in its "Cruiser" configuration, which has a very short barrel:

The point being that the very first federal gun control law, and the only one to be examined by the Supreme Court, was upheld (if it was, opinions vary) on a false basis. That tape would provide iron clad evidence that: "quot; a shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia" Maybe we need to get an NFA case started on its way to the SC based on a violation of the short barreled shotgun portion of the law. I'm sure the Gunny would be happy to supply the video. :)

Of course a machine gun case would serve as well, plenty of evidence about that can be obtained from most any combat video shot during the ongoing unpleasantness in southwest Asia.

[Squantos]

Master Cpl. Arron Perry of the Canadian Armed Forces killed a Taliban soldier from a distance of 1.5 miles in Afghanistan in 2003. Could Perry do it again?

Clearly was the shooter vs the firearm.....:o)