03-08-2014, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark_T
To me, the need to protect our kids from the occasional whackos that get their hands on these guns completely outweighs personal enjoyment.
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By that logic, we are focusing on the wrong weapon. If we truly wanted to curb firearm tragedies and murders the handgun would be it.
The issue is that everyone has these motivations which are not bad. To protect posterity to end senseless killing.
No one has the cojones to go after the real killer on the streets, the handgun. Instead they go after the new comer, the one that looks different. In reality even if there was a wholesale ban of even every firearm other than hand guns. retroactive and proactive it would barely dent the murder rate.
Good news is, murder rate is down by several thousand since 2007
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03-08-2014, 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Lobo1186
By that logic, we are focusing on the wrong weapon. If we truly wanted to curb firearm tragedies and murders the handgun would be it.
The issue is that everyone has these motivations which are not bad. To protect posterity to end senseless killing.
No one has the cojones to go after the real killer on the streets, the handgun. Instead they go after the new comer, the one that looks different. In reality even if there was a wholesale ban of even every firearm other than hand guns. retroactive and proactive it would barely dent the murder rate.
Good news is, murder rate is down by several thousand since 2007
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Good thing California banned the .50 before a single crime was ever committed in the entire US!
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03-08-2014, 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Timco
Good thing California banned the .50 before a single crime was ever committed in the entire US!
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There, now that is good, pro-active law-making. Why wait until some nutjob gets his hands on a Browning machine gun and opens up on a shopping mall. There's no need for any private citizen to have a .50
Does that apply to the .50 cal handgun cartridges as well?
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03-08-2014, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark_T
There, now that is good, pro-active law-making. Why wait until some nutjob gets his hands on a Browning machine gun and opens up on a shopping mall. There's no need for any private citizen to have a .50
Does that apply to the .50 cal handgun cartridges as well?
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Dude, you drank the Koolaid.....
Biggest "feel good" law ever. It weighs a ton, ammo is scarce, it costs a ton of money, very few can load for it, the scope is as much as a used car, and they banned it before it could do any harm. Dumbest thing I have ever heard, and a total waste of time. But, someone somewhere feels good about it, and that's what counts, not facts.
Just the sound of it...BROWNING MACHINE GUN!!! It's .50 BMG ammo. NOT a full auto Browning Machine Gun. Bolt action, single shot.
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03-08-2014, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Timco
Dude, you drank the Koolaid.....
Biggest "feel good" law ever. It weighs a ton, ammo is scarce, it costs a ton of money, very few can load for it, the scope is as much as a used car, and they banned it before it could do any harm. Dumbest thing I have ever heard, and a total waste of time. But, someone somewhere feels good about it, and that's what counts, not facts.
Just the sound of it...BROWNING MACHINE GUN!!! It's .50 BMG ammo. NOT a full auto Browning Machine Gun. Bolt action, single shot.
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Yeah, I know. I was just yanking your chain with that one.
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03-08-2014, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark_T
Yeah, I know. I was just yanking your chain with that one.
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And I took that bait..... 
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03-08-2014, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Timco
Dude, you drank the Koolaid.....
Biggest "feel good" law ever. It weighs a ton, ammo is scarce, it costs a ton of money, very few can load for it, the scope is as much as a used car, and they banned it before it could do any harm. Dumbest thing I have ever heard, and a total waste of time. But, someone somewhere feels good about it, and that's what counts, not facts.
Just the sound of it...BROWNING MACHINE GUN!!! It's .50 BMG ammo. NOT a full auto Browning Machine Gun. Bolt action, single shot.
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But, Gunny Hathcock shot a child with one from a mile away in vietnam after he mounted his sniper rifle's scope on it... of course it is too dangerous for civilians
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