This gun smells like cat butt. THANKS, OBAMA. We have to admit we didn't see this one coming: The National Rifle Association has issued a statement indicating it might be cool with it if Congress votes to ban the sale of bump stocks, the devices that allowed the Las Vegas shooter to fire several semiautomatic rifles with a rate of fire that rivals automatic weapons. Given the NRA's never-budge-an-inch stance toward any regulations of firearms or ammunition, that's a heck of a surprise. Of course, the statement is very carefully written to make it clear the NRA is still absolutely opposed to gun control; it's just that on this one, they found a way to pretend this isn't regulation of a firearm, but of an accessory -- one that enabled the bloodiest mass shooting in modern history. The statement, by NRA head gunhumpers Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox, is very cannily crafted:
Here in Norway there are strict regulations on magazine/clip capacity. A pump action shotgun can have a max of 3 shells, 2 in the mag and 1 in the chamber. Rifles can have a max of 5 rounds, and 1 in the chamber. Not sure about handguns, but think you can get them with 7 round clips.
I grew up in Canada where handguns were made illegal after Marc LePine walked into Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and shot and killed 21 women. And any rifle magazine over 5 rounds is also illegal. And guess what? The world didn't end.
Back in high school we had elective classes from age 14-16, (the last 2 years) where we could choose miniature shooting (.22 long rifle). 2 hrs a week of pew pew, but we had 2 classes (4 hrs) of safety courses before we were allowed to pick up a cartridge and look at it.
And guns would get their feelings hurt if they were ever put in a datafile. So no computers are allowed in tracking pew pew things.https://www.wired.com/2015/...
Wow, so the NRA is having a "come to your senses" moment with very little sense involved other a slight twist of words? Oh, those canny bastards! I still think Chris Rock said it best: just make ammo cost $5000 a bullet. The nuts can have their gun worship altars and the rest of us can breathe a little easier.
"Banning guns from law-abiding Americans based on the criminal act of a madman will do nothing to prevent future attacks. This is a fact that has been proven time and again in countries across the world."
When was this proven and can you name at least 3 countries where crazy-old-American-white-man massacres did not decrease?
I wonder if this would increase accidently shootings of other hunters and people on wooded property. I imagine it would be the other people’s responsibility to wear their orange safety vests, not the dumb fuck with the silencer.
"Banning guns from law-abiding Americans based on the criminal act of a madman will do nothing to prevent future attacks. This is a fact that has been proven time and again in countries across the world."That is...isn't there a word for the opposite of truth? It's on the tip of my tongue, give me a second, I'll think of it....
Here in Norway there are strict regulations on magazine/clip capacity. A pump action shotgun can have a max of 3 shells, 2 in the mag and 1 in the chamber. Rifles can have a max of 5 rounds, and 1 in the chamber. Not sure about handguns, but think you can get them with 7 round clips.
I grew up in Canada where handguns were made illegal after Marc LePine walked into Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and shot and killed 21 women. And any rifle magazine over 5 rounds is also illegal. And guess what? The world didn't end.
just weird how people living under such tyranny can get by eh?
Back in high school we had elective classes from age 14-16, (the last 2 years) where we could choose miniature shooting (.22 long rifle). 2 hrs a week of pew pew, but we had 2 classes (4 hrs) of safety courses before we were allowed to pick up a cartridge and look at it.
And guns would get their feelings hurt if they were ever put in a datafile. So no computers are allowed in tracking pew pew things.https://www.wired.com/2015/...
Lazer Cat!
Shit. I had to take more classes than that before I was allowed to use the machines in woodshop.
Wow, so the NRA is having a "come to your senses" moment with very little sense involved other a slight twist of words? Oh, those canny bastards! I still think Chris Rock said it best: just make ammo cost $5000 a bullet. The nuts can have their gun worship altars and the rest of us can breathe a little easier.
"Banning guns from law-abiding Americans based on the criminal act of a madman will do nothing to prevent future attacks. This is a fact that has been proven time and again in countries across the world."
When was this proven and can you name at least 3 countries where crazy-old-American-white-man massacres did not decrease?
Yes, but since mostly white people were involved the NRA is spewing different bullshit than they usually do.
I'm copying this and sending it to Cruz and Cornyn, with minor alterations. THANKS!!!!
To use your own famous parlance: Doh!
Because you need silencers to hunt deer with a semi automatic weapon. Duh!
I wonder if this would increase accidently shootings of other hunters and people on wooded property. I imagine it would be the other people’s responsibility to wear their orange safety vests, not the dumb fuck with the silencer.
There is absolutely NO reason to have a silencer, other than to murder someone quietly. The GOP has been reduced to having no shame whatsoever.
"Banning guns from law-abiding Americans based on the criminal act of a madman will do nothing to prevent future attacks. This is a fact that has been proven time and again in countries across the world."That is...isn't there a word for the opposite of truth? It's on the tip of my tongue, give me a second, I'll think of it....