Posted on 07/07/2008 10:32:35 AM PDT by Joiseydude
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's repeal of the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., may be a boon for a segment of the firearms industry whose last major windfall might have been in the heyday of the Dirty Harry movies: those who make and sell revolvers.
The court ruled that a blanket ban on handguns is unconstitutional, but D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and other Washington officials want to keep in place a prohibition on semiautomatic handguns — those in which a bullet clip is inserted into the gun's grip.
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Manual transmissions in automobiles are legal but automatic transmissions are still illigal.
All manual transmissions must be registered with the police, kept unloaded and stored in a safe.
If one has a Glock 17 and, as a matter of routine, one always locks the slide back when inserting or removing a magazine, how is it different from a revolver? Pull the trigger--bang. Don't pull the trigger--no bang. If you don't want bang, don't pull the trigger.
Revolvers may in some ways seem simpler than semi-autos, but they have some pitfalls of their own. If a revolver is not loaded fully, one must be careful to ensure that the live rounds are properly placed. If one cocks the hammer on a partially-loaded revolver (including one which has been fired), decocking the hammer without turning back the cylinder will reduce the number of rounds available before the next 'click'.
While other firearms may offer a lower price or better accuracy, I think the Glock is pretty much perfect from a user-interface perspective.
You could look back over about 8 years of posts and see that I’m no bot for McCain or anyone else. I’m damn disappointed that he’s the candidate. But we’re to blame for that. We voted him in. No sense pouting about it.
What’s your solution to all this then?
I do happen to think that an Obama presidency will be a disaster. Things will happen that we will never be able to undo. Sorry if it offends you, but I don’t think McCain will be nearly so bad as some here fear. I know he’ll be a whole world better than Obama. And them’s the choices.
If you have an inspiration for how to do better than McCain for the next four years, please do tell.
Which is greater--the number of innocents killed each year by government personnel using assault rifles or imitations thereof, or by non-government personnel using such weapons? Whose use of such weapons should be more restricted?
Thank you very much.
Yes, but there is no enumerated individual right to fly a plane. Thus the right would be subject to a lessor degree of scrutiny. A public safety justification *might* be sufficient, especially where there are provisions for continuing to exercise the right without endangering the general public with falling aircraft.
Speak for yourself. By the time I got to vote, the only other candidate still in the race was Ron Paul. I didn't vote for either of them, but I did vote for the candidate of my choice, who was still on the ballot, even if out of the race.
Hey, I’m in the same boat. Here in the Soviet of Washington conservative votes just don’t matter. Look at the vote-counting for our governor. It took three recounts for them to “find” enough “uncounted” votes to put her in office.
There are elections in Mexico that are less corrupt than here in King County.
Not quite the same boat. You're talking about the general election, I'm talking about the primary. The lack of choice had nothing do with the State of Texas, except perhaps it's Republican committee. But more responsibility goes to the Republican National Committee and whoever else set up the schedule for the primaries. Both parties seem to have arranged things to favor the more liberal candidates, often in small states without many electoral votes, but able to establish credibility and Big MO. As people gravitate to "a winner" rather than what they perceive as the candidate which represents their positions most closely, fund raising becomes easier for the early leaders, and harder for the others.
I’m a Calvinist. The Lord will have exactly the man he wants in office. I’m perfectly happy. I survived Clinton even as I watched my “Evangelical” brothers running around like Henny Penny.
Here is my inspiration: the likes of Coulter are right. Republicans won’t fight McCain. The sooner we realize that and prepare that we must fight the Republicans should McCain win the better. And, saying we must vote for McCain because of the judges he will nominate is simply part of the delusion we must fight.
Well, I’ve said my piece and we’ve strayed well off topic, so I’ll go on my way. Good day to you...
Of course, but there is the additional burden of proving that it is a right. And it's not a matter of it being less of right.. well yes it is, some right are more fundamental to the political process and to freedom that others. Flying a plane is one of those that can be regulated on a "public good" and "minimum burden" basis.
Did you post that to the wrong person?
I know that the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting and pointed out that fact.
If you mean the 9th amendment, it says no such thing. It says there are other rights, but does not say that *everything* is a right. Thus you have to prove that whatever the government is doing is violating a right of some sort. Probably one recognized by the English Common law, or it's colonial cousin.
Why should the right to bear arms be treated any differently than the right to drive, fly or smoke pot?
Because it is an *enumerated* right. There can be no question that it is a right.
When asserting a 9th amendment right, there is that question. Not everything under the sun, that you or I might wish to do is a right, many things but not everything.
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