And therein lies the problem you Americans face.....a sizeable chunk of your population is brain dead and actually believes that crap. God help the USA

Why does everyone keep calling tsao fat?!?

well.

i'm down to 210 now though 20 more to go imo.

wow u fat

I mean I always assumed you're like 5'6"

I thought I'd seen a pic or vid of you playing guitar, didn't think you coulda been over 150

AFAIC these people would be the one and only reason I would support a pro-gun lobby

Is this thread going to have record # of temp bans?

For a 3 day span, it's easily the most I've ever banned in my time as a mod.

Here is a Bushmaster .223 that would not have fell under the Assault Weapons Ban that ended in 04. Therefore he didn't use an assault weapon. It is not currently an assault weapon even in CA and they have their own very strict state level AWB.




Here is another that isn't covered under an AWB




If you did make those illegal even the ones pictured. This is the alternative that is, at it's heart, the exact same rifle. And hostorically one of the most used hunting rifles. In fact it's called a Ranch Rifle.

Tragedy strikes and as a country we unite.

Makes sense. My jimmies were pretty damned rustled. I'm surprised I did not engage in some curse laden diatribes here or on FB.

If I had to guess I would say that Obama is going to push more healthcare with this. He just does not have the political capital to do anything with the gun issue. Hard to imagine any president would.

Look, dude, the ability to take down a heavily armed gun nut roaming a public place is a civil duty not a job skill. Teachers/movie theater attendants/mall santas/flight attendants/doctors/and anyone else who works in a public place needs to know that they don't deserve to get paid more for said skill. It's just the way the world works and we have to learn to deal with it and never try and do anything about it.

Some gun writers are scared that Obama will just regulate semi-autos into the NFA (the law that heavily regulates machine guns), instead of having the assault weapons ban become a huge debating point.

So, this has been published:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-disaster.html

How is that legal?

An executive order that modifies a law passed by congress, changing it permanently? wat

The writers who've said this are basically saying, "Obama is trying to regulate the coal industry out of existence. He's going to do the same to the gun industry." I really have no idea if either part of that statement is true.

Gun writers are just in on the NRA scam of getting folks worked up about Obama coming for their guns!11111!! so they can sell more guns and ammo than they normally would. Duh.

Sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease.

Was impressed by Obama's speech tonight on the level of oratory. Having him come after Bush makes me even more ashamed that Bush was elected president. BTW, apparently Bush "supported" renewing the assault weapons ban.

"Despite those concerns, the White House says Mr. Bush supports the extension of the current law -- a position that has put him in opposition to the N.R.A. and left many gun owners angry and dumbfounded.

''This is a president who has been so good on the Second Amendment that it's just unbelievable to gun owners that he would really sign the ban,'' said Grover G. Norquist, a leading conservative and an N.R.A. board member who opposes the weapons ban. ''I don't think it's sunk in for a lot of people yet.''"

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/us...t-weapons.html

If the EO gun grab comes to fruition, the anti-christ/hitler II crowd will have a huge influx of believers IMO.

That almost sounds like the beginning to an apocalyptic novel ffs. Scary stuff.

The two important parts of a gun are the barrel and the receiver.

3d printers can produce working lower receivers fairly easily, and even using current technology some quick googling turns up threads like this, where people are talking about (shoddy) upper receivers as well.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_3_118/5...it_works_.html

I expect that the time is fast coming where just about anyone will be able to print out a decent quality assault rifle receiver. A decent barrel is probably further away.

What to people think about this? What would it take from a technology standpoint in 3d printing to subvert the effectiveness of gun control with respect to mass shootings?

Maybe 3d printers won't be useful enough to proliferate widely, to the extent that potential shooters have the opportunity to use them without oversight. I'm not really sure.

You can mill out an 80% metal receiver which is considered a paperweight until it is finished. All you need is a mill or drill press and a jig that tells you the size and position of the holes. 3d lowers still seem like they might be weak, since people seem to avoid the current polymer lowers.

Were these the same writers that told you Switzerland had a higher gun ownership rate than the United States?

What would it possibly take for them to lose credibility in your eyes?

The gun ownership comment in Switzerland was from a graph posted ITT.

As I said, I have no idea if it's even possible for Obama to do that. The fact that it came from some random writer on the internet makes me doubt it.

JUST COMMON SENSE EVERYBODY