Posted on 02/23/2018 11:21:22 AM PST by DCBryan1
Guns and I go back a long way.
My father was a champion skeet shooter. A picture of him aiming his favorite pump skyward has pride of place in our living room. He owned fine rifles and shotguns, and he valued them.
My first experience with pulling a trigger came late, by family standards. I was already 7 or 8 when my dad and “Uncle” George took me out back of Old Lily’s house and handed me a sawed-off shotgun (illegal then and now) kept handy for woodchucks and rattlesnakes. The recoil didn’t knock me off my feet, but my shoulder ached for weeks.
I’m blessed to have few material regrets, but I still feel a sting when I recall how, after my father’s bankruptcy, we had to sell his guns to put food on the table. Those arms were important to him and, thus, to me.
I served in the US Army, including unforgettable years in an infantry battalion. I fired my share of automatic weapons, from M16A1s to machine guns and even Kalashnikovs. (Let’s not talk about dud-grenade disposal . . .)
And I’m a gun owner. As I write these lines, there’s an 1858 Tower musket behind me and a Colt on my desk.
But I believe, on moral, practical and constitutional grounds, that no private citizen should own an automatic weapon or a semi-automatic weapon that can easily be modified for automatic effects.
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You better add another 1 to the 10,000,000 guns you quoted.
I just picked up a CZ Bren Carbine yesterday off of Gunbroker.
BTW, I have a 06 ZO6....
Hey Mr. Peters, in Canada, civilian ownership of fully autos was completely legal (and used to cull heavy deer populations in in some areas of British Columbia during the 1930s through 1950s as per what a late friend of mine told me once) and was perfectly safe with no one running amuck with them in public. They were banned through grandfathering in 1978, but their lawful owners since then have still not been in any trouble with the police nor have those firearms been used to commit a violent offence. So I wonder why we all suddenly have a problem, surely it is not the guns but the people, eh?
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In that case, should Congress issue a Letter of Marque (as provided by the Constitution) to a citizen, how would that citizen carry-out the directives of that letter?
[Retired warrant officer here. Lots of field grade officers are full of themselves & think their sierra don’t stink.]
We have the same jerks in my gun club. They tend to be the Trap and Skeet boys who are quite superior.
We call them “Golfers with Guns”.
Yawn.
How many citizens are aware bump stocks were originally manufactured to assist handicapped hunters?
Lots of faggoty military. This jackass is no different.
Peters is an idiot
Peters is a Liberal “military” guy, we do have them.
>>But I believe, on moral, practical and constitutional grounds, that no private citizen should own an automatic weapon or a semi-automatic weapon that can easily be modified for automatic effects.
What Constitutional grounds? The bogus “2ndA is about muskets”BS?
“I used to follow, and appreciate, what Col. Peters had to say.”
He never made full colonel. And when a lieutenant colonel answers the phone, he states his rank with both words. In conversation, he may be informally addressed as “colonel”.
Anyway, he thinks he is still barking orders at subordinates when he lectures us that we have no right to possess `assault weapons’.
Hey, LTC Peters, if you want to ban `assault weapons’ (assuming you don’t wish to repeal the 2nd Amendment) then hit the bricks and start lobbying Congress. Or move to those nonfree states which already ban them. But by all means keep running your mouth; AR-15’s are flying off the shelves once more!
From one soldier to another: Automatic weapons have been illegal since 1934. Now instead of trying to get into the spotlight, sit down smart guy and write a law that will stop criminals from killing people. I would be the first to endorse it if it worked. No one in human history has been able to write that law. Just another self hating military man turned Democrat. Too bad.
Just a dumba$$, the military didn’t teach him to say something stupid like outlawing automatic weapons.
They're not banned, but they are heavily restricted in that you must have a background check, pay the tax stamp, and it must be legal to own where you live.
F**K you Peters.
This guy is an idiot.
Maybe he should start serving in the british military.
No, they haven't. Restricted, yes, but illegal? No. Maybe in some states, but not at the federal level.
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