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Are Assault Rifles Strictly Weapons of War?
American Spectator ^
| 4.3.13
| LUCA GATTONI-CELLI
Posted on 04/04/2013 10:31:15 AM PDT by neverdem
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It is still legal to own some cannons. Machine guns were legal until about the 30’s. In the 1800,s the westerners built forts and armed them with what they could afford. Some riverboats and steam boats had cannons. The low information crowd does not know a magazine form a clip or a belt. The want to ban M1 carbine because it can hold a 30 round magazine and is semi-automatic. A M1 Garand can out fire a M14 and the 30-06 is several times more powerful than the 30 carbine. We are ruled by the vain and ignorant.
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posted on
04/04/2013 10:45:54 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: neverdem
There are reasons the ComDems want to eliminate ARs and AKs.
They can be made in modest machine shops from a few castings and the parts are available in many places. Standard design.
These are a version of the weapons that the military train with. They are light, accurate, large enough to kill a man and are pretty reliable.
There are a lot of civilian style weapons that have a lot more knock down, range and accuracy. So this is about something other than being powerful.
I don’t own one, but would love to own an old M1. That heavy beast is a military weapon. Long range, accurate, reliable and powerful.
To: neverdem
Considering the DHS is buying Ars and calling them defensive weapons, one wonders why the government says that and then turns around to go apestuffincrazy over civilians owning the same DEFENSIVE weapons?
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posted on
04/04/2013 10:48:12 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
To: neverdem
The answers are far from simple*************************
Not so. The answer is quite simple; it becomes difficult only when intentionally misinterpreted, due to the mental contortions one must perform to distort the intended meaning.
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posted on
04/04/2013 10:48:41 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
.308 and 30-06 are 7.62 in diameter, 7.62 millimeters. the nato spec for a .308 round is 7.62 x 55 I think and the 30-06 is 7.62 by 65 MM.
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posted on
04/04/2013 10:51:36 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: neverdem
To a LibTurd anti 2d Amendment types the rifled long rifle used in the Revelutionary war was too, but it came originally with the farmers of the day.
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posted on
04/04/2013 10:51:39 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: neverdem
crimials and police don’t think so.
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posted on
04/04/2013 10:52:19 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Last time I checked, if you have the money you can buy a Barrett 50BMG with no legal issues here in TX.
Don’t have the money to spend on one, but would love to.
To: Texas Fossil
I am, for the time being, a long time resident of Massachusetts so my knowledge of what is and is not allowable or easily available are clearly somewhat skewed.
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posted on
04/04/2013 10:54:28 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(For me, I plan to die standing as a free man rather than spend one second on my knees as a slave.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
And then there’s the Mosin Nagants...
To: neverdem
If someone has the knowledge and time, maybe they could list most, if not all, of the calibers that have their origins in warfare and have been used as military calibers?
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posted on
04/04/2013 10:55:08 AM PDT
by
Parmy
To: neverdem
“The answers are far from simple, and lie in American constitutional and military history.”
Perhaps, but the answer is still irrelevant, as far as the 2nd amendment is concerned. Arms means weapons of war, so we have a right to bear them.
To: ClearCase_guy
Back in the 1870s you would find a trail drive’s drovers better armed than a cavalry platoon. And on rivers from the Ohio to the Missouri flatboats would routinely have swivel cannon as defense against river pirates. And more importantly we are approaching the 238th anniversary of Lexinton and Concord. Do people remember why the British Light infantry andRoyal Marines were marching toward Concord that April Morning? To confiscate the arms of the provisional militia which were stored at Concord and which included wheeled cannon.
To: mountainlion
To: pfflier
By using the above logic, the bolt action rifle is also a "military weapon". Don't give the gun-grabbers any new ideas like that!
To: neverdem
So what is an assault weapon anyway? WW2 they used Thompson machine guns and grease guns, and M1 Garands to charge the enemy positions. The idea was to keep the defenders heads down while they were making an assault. Later some used the M60 machine gun and full auto m14s and full auto M16s to assault a position. Now they have SAW machine guns. I think SAW stands for Squat Assault Weapon. It replaces the M60. Confusion is the weapon of the enemy of freedom. They confuse facts to lower the bar for the low information crowd.
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posted on
04/04/2013 11:00:04 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Bernard Marx
Sorry, I was confusing logic with their version of reality. A BB gun has more magazine capacity that the bolt action rifle too...
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posted on
04/04/2013 11:02:05 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: Tijeras_Slim
I should not have said NATO 7.62, only 7.62.
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posted on
04/04/2013 11:03:02 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: Tijeras_Slim
308 = 7.62x51
Thanks. I forgot. I think 50 BMG is 12.7 x 98MM
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posted on
04/04/2013 11:03:37 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: humblegunner
And then theres the Mosin Nagants...Everybody seems to have one.
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