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Made my first nitroglycerin from scratch at 15.

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Great point...

Another spin on this approach - also require all ammunition to be registered to be legal in conjunction with the tax increases. Require all newly manufactured rounds to have micro-printed serial numbers in or on the projectile that can be recovered after firing - each round could then be registered and it's chain of custody documented and when it's used to kill, the purchaser of the registered round can be found very quickly. Make the purchaser criminally liable for anything that happens with any registered round they purchase, even if they did not fire it. Also, make it a federal crime to possess any round that is not so registered after a 6 month buy-back / exchange period where 1000 unregistered rounds can be exchanged for 1 registered round, or the cash value thereof.

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I meant when they strike anything solid.

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Ta, Dok. We need the data.

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The targets are backed by 1/4" plywood.

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I’m not a law person, but I believe that the answer to that is because Texas.

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I worked on a gun range in St. Petersburg, Florida, where they were sequestering a large area of the adjacent swamp and installing filters to remove all the lead lurking in the mud.

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Words mean things. Gun violence is not a "disease", hence the CDC has no purview. I can't wait until the Supreme Court dunks all over them again for overreach.

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You are forgetting that the Australian people are cucks who love to be stepped on by their government which is evidenced by their shameful toleration of police violence for draconian Covid restrictions. You go ahead and pass those laws here and see what happens next.

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To allow guns is technically more liberal than to ban them.

I'm not saying it is wise to allow guns, and limiting guns will lead to a more liberal world because use of force becomes a weaker option, but the act of allowing guns is inherently liberal since you will be at liberty to own a gun.

What I' trying to say is that the lack of liberty when it comes to gun ownership is not the problem. The consequences are the problem.

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Oh wow, that is a lot worse than I thought.

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My thoughts also went to the bullying. I'm willing to bet that girl and the two kids who got shot all went to the same school, or a similarly unavoidable high stress socially destructive environment.

Guns are force multipliers that should be kept away from kids, but also: Maybe we shouldn't be torturing our kids to the point where many of them think that using a weapon is their only option to end their suffering?

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I have family in England. I don't want them to suffer.

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The cops pull their guns before they establish communication with other human beings.Cops are extremely dangerous, keep your distance from them as much as humanly possible!

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Same here, my dad drilled us in gun safety for as far back as I can remember.

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