Posted on 12/06/2005 10:16:58 AM PST by neverdem
"An armed society is a polite society. Armed men are citizens, disarmed they are mere subjects."
And, all too often, victims of those who disarmed them.
Well, I've got a patent for a point-detonating shotgun slug from 1991. The NFA didn't stop me. Although I did have some brief issues with the local constabulary until I rightly pointed out to them that there were no laws on the books to cover my invention (which is sold in very modest numbers only to the US military).
In its extreme application my little invention makes a shotgun into an effective light-anti-tank weapon. It won't take out a heavily armored MBT, but a BMP or similar vehicle is susceptible to the HEAT version.
Is is is or is is ain't?
Yes is is with one constraint
Is is never is becuz
Once you've said is is is wuz!
"But if any one should ask: must the people, then, always lay themselves open to the cruelty and rage of tyranny - must they see their cities pillaged and laid in ashes, their wives and children exposed to the tyrants lust and fury, and themselves and their families reduced by their king to ruin and all the miseries of want and oppression, and yet sit still? Must men alone be debarred the common privilege of opposing force with force, which Nature allows so freely to all other creatures for their preservation from injury? I answer: Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the King himself." - Barclay, Against Monarchy.
The Second Amendment - Commentaries
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Thanks for the link!
Funny, the meaning of "is" went through my mind when I read that post also.
I am constantly amazed at those that don't understand that sentence, that the comma means the same as "and".
that's just ammo tho isn't it? i'm referring to totally new weapon designs.
but that sounds like a really cool design.
link?
Link? I don't sell the bloody things over a website! The patent is currently licensed to a firm in Colorado that sells equipment only to military and LEO's. They only make a few thousand rounds per year of my little toy thus I don't make a lot of money on it.
My point, again, is that the only hassles I had when developing the thing was from the local county mounties. The Feds didn't bother me at all.
I'm no big fan of the Feds on guns and gun control, just pointing out that development is not a prohibited activity. If you want to develop a military application full-auto you can get a permit via any number of agencies to circumvent the ATF. DARPA is one of them.
Yep, just ammo. But it does change a shotgun into a more formidable weapon at a very low expense.
I understand your point and it is well taken. As far as "link", I'm just curious how it works. Thought maybe there was a tech review or something.
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