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I expect sales of Ruger Mini-14 and Remington 750 rifles to skyrocket.   And this bill will do just as much to stop mass killings as banning high-capacity toilets.

Nice rant, but he has several facts dead wrong. 1)  Congress DOES pay into Social Security.  They have their own pension system as well, though.  Paid for by the taxpayers. 2)  The draft was a failure on many levels.  There is this myth that drafting men will make them better citizens.  It's a myth.  Didn't happen that way.  I remember draftees.  I saw lots of them kicked out of the Army.  While some were decent soldiers, many were trash.  They had no motivation or desire to do anything except the bare minimum to avoid punishment.  And they lied, cheated, and stole at every possible opportunity.  Finally, the draft IS Slavery.  3)  Over 50% of the population gets public money in the form of entitlements of a paycheck.  Those folks have no incentive to change the system.  In fact, they have an incentive to vote for Obama and those who promise to continue funding those EBT cards.   Those of use who value Freedom over 'Free Stuff' still have a few things going in our favor. 1)  The Constitution still imposes limits on government.  2)  The 9th and 10th Amendments provide the states a way to refuse to play by Federal rules.  State governments can still nullify Federal laws that conflict with State law. 3)  Most of the folks who prefer 'Free Stuff' over Freedom are located in the major cities and in only a few states.  If the other states refuse to support them, they will starve. 4)  we have LOTS of guns and ammunition.

The only wear you will see with a .22 suppressor is to the first baffle, sometimes referred to as the blast baffle.  Some companies offer suppressors with a stainless blast baffle.  This is really only needed if you have a full-auto .22.  Last year I sent my old Gemtech Outback to the factory to be upgraded.  Not because of wear, but because after over 15,000rds, it was pretty gunky and I'd had a few baffle strikes from using inappropriate ammo (Aguila 60gr SSS in a .223 barrel).  The original baffles were not worn out at all.    For the normal shooter, this is a non-issue.  Clean it every couple of thousand rounds and it will stay nice and quiet. Interestingly enough, my suppressor gets about 1Db quieter after a couple of hundred rounds.  With a bit of dirt, the baffles absorb energy more rapidly.  Of course, after a while, the lower internal volume caused by added gunk will make it less able to absorb that energy, and thus, a bit louder.

Reasonable gun control would be a law requiring every able-bodied adult male to own a serviceable rifle in a military caliber as well as a basic load of ammunition and equipment for it.  Hmmm, that sounds familiar.  Oh, wait!  We already did that once with the Second Militia Act of 1792!  Maybe it's time to dust that one off.   More Reasonable Gun Control would be a law requiring a citizen to shoot the Army Rifle AQT course with a passing score in order to vote. Even my 80 year-old Mom can qualify on the AQT, so this should be a no-brainer.  Maybe make some kind of allowance for those who are blind, though.   Here's some more Reasonable Gun Control that I REALLY like!  Allow tax credits for those who have more than the minimum rifle and equipment in the first paragraph!  How about a $1000 credit for owning a long-range rifle and completing a 800 yard qualification course?!  And a $2000 credit for owning a belt-fed machine gun and completing a qualification course!

The whole argument about whether women are CAPABLE of serving in combat is a red herring.  the argument should be about whether women SHOULD be serving in combat roles.   The question nobody seems to be asking is what detrimental effects could occur from a strategic perspective.  Women can do one thing that men have never been able to do; produce babies.  After WWI, France, Britain, and Germany had lost between 10-25% of their men between 18 and 45 years of age.  Among men age 18-30, the dead accounted for as much as 50% of the population.  Yet, just one generation later, all of those countries were capable of fielding armies just as large as they did in WWI.  The reason is because they did not have a significant loss of young women in WWI.    We have not had to fight a war where the dead accounted for a significant percentage of the population since the Civil War.  Imagine if we fight one in the near future where we have 10% of our young adults as casualties.  If women are in that mix, then we have just lost 10% of our ability to have a new generation.  We will have lost at least 10% of our future.    As a practical question, if we send our young women off to fight in that same horrendous war, who will run the country while they are gone?  In WWI and WWII, women stepped up and worked in factories and farms so the men could fight.  But, if both men and women are off fighting, who will keep the power plants running, the farms producing, and all of the other jobs needed to win a war?   A usual, the liberals are more concerned with appearances than with reality.

How wonderfully representative of our President!  A fake rendition of the National Anthem for our fake President. :rofl:

There are several very active pro-gun organizations started by veterans.  Oathkeepers is about as pro-gun as you can get.  Veterans probably have a higher level of support for firearms rights than the general populace.  But, they are just folks like everyone else and many have opinions opposed to ours.

Brand new Meprolight night sights for the Glocks would have been less than $100 each.  And Glock down in Smyrna, GA does refurbs that meet CALEA standards.  It's not about 'worn-out guns'.  It's about 'new toys'.   Other police departments that use Glocks usually run them through Glock's refurb program every 3-4 years.  If KPD has been using their Glocks for more than four years, I'd be surprised if they haven't already been doing this as well.

Controversy sells newspapers.  And Glenn Reynolds is one of their normal columnists.

Summary:  Urban areas that voted heavily for Obama have very high murder rates.

Newsweek?  Are they still around?  Their circulation is what, 20 or 30?  I'll bet that they sell more magazines to conservatives who get outraged by the cover than to anyone else.   A lot of liberal media are like that.  They only make money because ticked-off conservatives pay attention to them.  That doofus Piers Morgan only has viewers because he makes conservatives mad.  I refuse to let them maker money from me.  Ignore them and they will disappear.

  No, no, and HELL NO! This will not make any difference in crime stats.  And I WILL NOT comply with any registration attempts.  Historically, registration ALWAYS leads to confiscation.  In NY, they know who has legal semi-auto rifles.  Guess where they will be looking for 30rd magazines when the one-year grace period is over?  And, if the specific rifle is no longer legal, guess how they will know where to look for folks who decided to not comply with such an obviously unConstitutional law?  It's happened before, right here in the US.  If we permit these 'Universal Background Checks', then that Form 4473 becomes defacto firearm registration.

I love watching you folks getting bent out of shape over high ASKING prices.  So what?!  I can ask $200,000 for my beat up old Ruger .22 pistol if I want.  And if somebody actually buys it, I will be a VERY happy camper.   :rofl:  And everyone here will laugh about how somebody was foolish enough to pay all of that money for an ordinary Ruger .22.  This is exactly the same.   Unless we have a sudden infestation of rabid elephants somewhere, I sincerely doubt that anyone is going to find themselves feeling a need to buy a $20,000 Barrett .50. :squint:

Corporations don't vote.  Sure, they can give lots of money to a politician.  But that does not equal votes.  Just ask Debra Maggert about that.  what you have to do is remind your politicians that not only do YOU vote, but that some do lots of your friends who agree with you.  Your calls to your congressman count for more than a check from a foreign corporation.  And that check can even be a liability when you show that your congressman accepts checks from a foreign company!   Visits, calls, letters, emails are what matter.  As one politician told me, "Money is the sincerest form of flattery".  But give your money as a result of a correct vote, not before.

When I was growing up NONE of my family's guns were secured.  The only one that was left loaded was my Dad's .45 in his sock drawer.  When I was old enough to get into things (3-4), my father blew up a melon with the .45 close enough to splatter me with juice and rind.  He then very firmly told me to never touch a real gun without his permission. When I got to 12, my grandfather started teaching me to shoot with his old Remington M12 .22.  By the next year, he was handing me the Remington and a box of shells before sending me off to go play in the woods all day.   My son went through Eddie Eagle gun safety at 6 years old.  My wife and I have always had our carry guns loaded, available, and under our control.  Our son has never touched them without permission.  Our other guns have been unloaded, and most have been secured.  Growing up, he spent plenty of time on ranges and had safety and instruction.  He's grown up now, and we have never had a moment's worry about the guns.   I have seen kids that grew up with guns that I feel perfectly safe to spend range time with.  I have also seen kids that grew up in the same family as the other kids, but who I would not trust with a loaded squirt gun.  You have to know your kids, and treat them as the individuals they are.

Cold water is very dangerous.  I would never go out in a canoe in the winter.  Even with a life jacket, that water will sap your energy and kill you a lot faster than you would think it could.

  Do NOT fire it from the hip!!!  It ejects straight up and if you don't have the gun well in front of you, you will get a face full of very hot brass!  Drums typically take a bit of tweaking and need to be loaded vary carefully to make sure the spring tension is right.

Supply and demand.  If you don't want to pay the panic prices, you have three choices; buy before the panic, decide to do without or find a substitute, or wait until the panic (and prices) subside.    Price gouging serves a useful purpose.  It causes demand to drop so that inventories can build back up to meet demand.  If sellers did NOT raise their prices, then there would be no incentive to find substitutes, do without, or wait.  In that case, it takes MUCH longer for inventories to accumulate to the point where stores actually have them on the shelves.    If prices do not rise when demand increases and supply cannot meet it, then this is what ALWAYS happens.  Suppliers sell ONLY to their friends or those with influence.  Those people sell some of the product on the black market at much higher prices.  The consumer then has the option of either paying that higher price or doing without.  There is a reason that stores in Soviet Russia had long lines, empty shelves, and poor quality goods.

Facts are what matter.  Have background checks like NICS and TICS stopped criminals from getting firearms?  If there is a significant reduction in criminals getting firearms, then you can point to some success.  Unfortunately, the evidence points the other way.  NICS and TICS have not stopped criminals from getting firearms.  Since they do not accomplish their stated goal, why keep them?   Liberals love to make the excuse that a program is failing because it is not expansive enough.  In other words, the reason background checks don't stop criminals from getting guns is because all sales are not legally required to have a check done.  That's absurd.  Criminals will still use straw-man purchasers, theft, and the black market to get guns.   This is just more feel-good bullcr@p.  Background checks are worthless for reducing crime.  But it's an excellent way to create backdoor registration.

Yeah, but you didn't wear your TFA hat.   :usa:  I saw a lot of NRA hats, which is good.  But when it comes to Tennessee, it's the TFA that the politicians recognize as the powerhouse.   Still, it was an excellent event.  My guesstimate of attendance was 700, and the media said over 1000, so I was pleased with that.    Rep. Mike Carr was adamant that Haslam, Ramsey, and Harwell are 'good' people and friends of his.  I have to wonder why he thinks that the voters give a rat's @ss about that?  My $.02 is that I could care less whether he likes them or not.  The only thing that matters to me is whether his votes agree with me.  I have Liberal friends.  But that doesn't mean that I would ever trust them to vote for me!

A lot of what it boils down to is whether a person is able to take responsibility for themselves.  Liberals, by and large, do not believe in personal responsibility.  They blame guns for violence, bad fortune for poverty, and Republicans for the bad economy.  that si why they want to have a government program to take care of people.  They do not believe that people are capable of taking care of themselves without help.  They do not take any responsibility for their own decisions unless it works out well.   And since they are incapable of taking responsibility for themselves, they cannot conceive of others who CAN take care of themselves without help.  Likewise, they cannot conceive of people who are not only capable, but willing to be prepared to protect their lives, families and property.  Somehow, once a person puts on a uniform or badge, they are magically capable of being trusted with firearms where normal folks are not.   Likewise, their politicians magically become honest, moral people with only the most altruistic motives once they are sent to DC.  This, in spite of all of the evidence that Democrat politicians seem to be even more venal and dishonest than Republican politicians.

The little SDB is actually faster than the 550B.  I leave mine set up for my normal 9mm load as that's what I shoot the most.  I use my 550B for all other calibers.  I'm thinking about getting another SDB to use for .38Spl when I get my new workshop finished and have the space.

"this would change in the late 1980s when a off duty LEO shot a man with a registered machine gun that he found in bed with his wife"   I have to admit I find this appalling.  I do not see how the fact that the machine gun was in bed with his wife is relevant.   All joking aside, no 'gun control' has ever been implemented for the benefit of law-abiding folks.  I challenge anyone to show me where any gun control has resulted in a reduction in crime.  So, if they are not using it to reduce crime, what IS the purpose?  It is done solely to make politicians feel safer about there phoney-baloney jobs.  The more desperately they cry for 'gun control' the more deeply they know that what they are doing is wrong.

MG42 and BAR.  That's all I really want.  Except maybe a Beretta PM12s.  Yep, that's it, the MG42, BAR, and PM12s.  Well, maybe also a full-auto Ruger 10/22 because they are just too cool.  So, yep, that's all.  A MG42, BAR, PM12s, and 10/22.  Oh, wait, an M-16, too.  And that's it.  Really.       Well, maybe a Swedish K like I used to have.         And I did forget to add a M1A! Thompson.  Really, I can stop any time. :pleased:

If this passes, we will never get inventories back to normal!  Sales will be through the roof!!!  Like most government programs, it will have an actual result exactly opposite of the intent.  Instead of reducing the numbers of semi-auto rifles in civilian hands, I predict that huge numbers of firearms will be turned in so that folks can buy new ones.   More feel-good cr@p paid for with our taxes.