Posted on 12/12/2015 3:05:06 PM PST by lowbridge
Assault weapons were banned for 10 years until Congress, in bipartisan obeisance to the gun lobby, let the law lapse in 2004. As a result, gun manufacturers have been allowed to sell all manner of war weaponry to civilians, including the super destructive .50-caliber sniper rifle, which an 18-year-old can easily buy in many places even where he or she must be 21 to buy a simpler handgun. Why any civilian would need this weapon, designed to pierce concrete bunkers and armored personnel carriers, is a question that should be put to the gun makers who profit from them and the politicians who shamelessly do their bidding.
The industry's sales pitches in magazines and on the Internet play off popular fears generated by the very shooting sprees made possible by their assault weapons, and use the imagery of war in general and the "war on terror" in particular.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This pants wetter had to be cowering on a chair while he screeched this drivel. Good grief.
Very
I doubt that anyone at NYT (certainly no one with any self-respect would work there) can imagine a "practical purpose" or anything "useful" about super destructive war weaponry, whether designed to pierce concrete bunkers and armored personnel carriers, to reach out and touch someone at 1,000-plus meters, or to support stereotypical cis-gender hyper-macho Nerf fantasies.
Even if you divide it up over a couple of days? Note: double hearing protection recommended whether shooting 9k rounds or only a fraction of that per day.
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