Chucktshoes

Ehhhhh, not so much. The idea of using government power to engage in guild protection actions and having any part in determining who is and isn’t a “legitimate” journalist sound a cure far scarier than the disease.

Residency is what matters. There are rare exceptions like folks stationed in the military can buy in their home of record and duty station location. I am always open to being corrected, but I don’t believe that it is legal for him to purchase and take possession of a firearm in Tennessee until he changes residency.

I am a harsh critic of social media, and understand the desire to not a lump it in with news sources. The problem is that it is at odds with our current reality. Most people now get their news from social media instead of network news sources or print outlets. Is it to the detriment of society at large, absolutely. That said, it is the current state of affairs as it exists.

Then you didn’t see the story at the beginning. Not only was it mass shooting in the initial headlines, it was mass shooting all across the socials. I imagine the “if it bleeds it leads“ newsroom folks were quite disappointed when it turned out to be not what they were hoping.

This is a great (and pretty accurate) collection of memes about “What your pistol optics says about you”. A couple have some foul language so I am linking to them offsite. https://imgur.com/a/dMQmCla

Haven’t any of y’all ever seen The NeverEnding Story?

Like I said, death from 1000 cuts. if you’re not actively working to regain the rights that we have lost when “your side” is in power, instead of just trying to make sure that it doesn’t get any worse when the other side has the reigns you’re not helping anything. Instead of swimming to shore, you are simply treading water until eventually the waves swamp you and drown you. I may disagree with @TGO Davidabout placing any faith in the Republican Party, but if you look back a couple years to 2018 and 2019 he was encouraging everybody here quit being slackers and get involved. So my point remains the same. It’s great everybody’s all riled up right now, but where were you for the last four years?

Beats me. It ain’t even close.

Like reconstructive surgery or amputation?

Does that mean you’re awake and paying attention to what’s going on instead of sleeping like it seems everybody with an R next to their name has done for the last four years? That is how it works isn’t it? People seem to only care about the battle for the Second Amendment when a Democrat is in the White House. As long as people continue to play their little partisan games, our rights will continue to die a death of 1000 cuts.

They aren’t irrelevant. But the excuses that gun owners continue to make for Republicans that take action harmful to our cause is the reason why lasting gun control has long been, and will continue to be enacted under Republican presidents.

That is a small temporary victory, but the battle is far from over.At the moment it seems to have been. That isn’t a done deal yet.That is a small temporary victory, but the battle is far from over.

It was how it was done. By using executive orders to instruct the ATF to change their ruling and declare something that clearly did not meet the definition of a machine gun as a machine gun It’s set president to do that with nearly anything. It wasn’t action taken by rule of law, it was imperial fiat. If you do not see how that relates to the executive actions taken today by President Biden, it’s because you’re choosing not to.

In addition, some of us decried the banning of bump stocks when it happened and warned that it was setting a very bad precedent but we were told to sit down. They shouldn’t have ever been approved in the first place. They were a toy. They had no real legitimate use. When we said it wasn’t about the bump stocks, but the way it was done. No attention was paid. Well, here we are. Thanks, Donald!

Who is David Chipman you might ask? Who is this man that Biden is going to nominate to lead the ATF? He wants to ban the sale and manufacture of “assault weapons” forcing all current owners to register theirs under the NFA. He wants to eliminate all private sales. Currently he works for Gabby Giffords’ gun control group. He was a 25 year vet of the ATF. What did he do there? A lot of this, a little of that. Served on the ATF’s SWAT team, worked on the Waco Branch Davidian trial. But you know, he’s a good guy. He occasionally conceal carries himself.

You’re a ####ed up individual. We really need to make you a citizen. Like, now.

Some of these orders affect me directly. Some people like to make comments about boating accidents. I don’t have a boat, and I ain’t lost ####.

Here they are. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/07/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-initial-actions-to-address-the-gun-violence-public-health-epidemic/?fbclid=IwAR08_J9ld_8PDcqUUpftcX5nDzNe5gI4FSsKngqZHHRu370gtwhjDqnzKhk

I’ve done worse, for less.