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aklim · #1 11-09-2008, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton

You tell me..........what can an assault rifle do that a hunting rifle cannot?

Questioning me about weapons isn't going to get you anywhere, because, self-admittedly, I'm no expert on them.

Problem is that the phrase "assault rifle" is used pretty loosely. If we used the wiki version, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle
* An individual weapon with provision to fire from the shoulder.
* Capable of selective fire.
* Intermediate-power cartridge between pistol and traditional rifle.
* Ammunition is supplied from a detachable box magazine.
Your AK47 and M16 that you buy from the gun store is NOT an assault rifle. Why? See item 2. As to what an assault rifle can do that a hunting rifle cannot, I would say it capable of wasting ammo. It's great for throwing lead in a general direction but if you want to get really specific, it is a hard sell. Take an AK47 at 200 yards and it won't be as accurate as many hunting rifles. Say in the 50 yard range if you just want to throw lead at a target, the AK is your gun. That is why I said that I owned a couple of them. If the guy could pay cash, I wouldn't have owned them.

Now if you are against a rifle having auto fire mode or even burst fire, I agree. If you are against a rifle having an M203 grenade launcher. Sure. That is why I asked you, what it is specifically that you are against. If you want to own an AK or M16, I have no issue with it although those are what the unknowing call an "assault rifle". If you are saying that Citizen Joe should have the right to own a fully auto M16, AK or a 30 cal machine gun, that is different.

Brian Carlton · #2 11-09-2008, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

If you are saying that Citizen Joe should have the right to own a fully auto M16, AK or a 30 cal machine gun, that is different.

That would be my primary concern. Selecting "assault rifle" might not have been the best choice.

aklim · #3 11-09-2008, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton

That would be my primary concern. Selecting "assault rifle" might not have been the best choice.

Probably not. I think it is pretty sleazy to link up a semi auto rifle with a full blown military version which is why they like to use the term "assault rifle" to give people all sorts of visions of Rambo running around shooting up the town.

cudaspaz · #4 11-10-2008, 06:52 AM

This argument will never go away.

The anti gun crowd will never admit that guns in the hands of law abiding citizens is a good thing because they "believe" banning guns altogether would help.

No, it won't, criminals will still obtain and use them to kill innocent people.

So when the Wife goes shopping, comes out to her car and Joe crack head puts a knife to her throat and demands she get in the car, do you think it might be a good thing if the 90 pound soccer Mom two cars down pulls out her pistol and stops the guy, or kills him if she has to, or would you just hope the Wife does what he says and "hopes" he does not chop her into little pieces her after he brutally rapes her?

Hello, eutopia does not exist and cannot be legislated to existence as long as humans still roam this earth.

The first two people on this earth had a son murdered by another so you can pretty much ban everything you think can be used as a weapon and people will still find creative ways to take advantage of people criminally.

Guns just even the playing field for the little guy.

Hey, if you can't trust yourself with a gun, so be it, just quit crying about the responsible people who can.

Brian Carlton · #5 11-10-2008, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by cudaspaz

Hey, if you can't trust yourself with a gun, so be it, just quit crying about the responsible people who can.

.........and I suppose that we let you decide who's a "responsible" person and who's not?

DieselAddict · #6 11-11-2008, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by cudaspaz

I just listen to some of these rediculous comments by you lefties and wonder how it must have felt to go against Adolf Hitler's ideas and how dissident were ridiculed by people like you even though the truth was staring them right in the face about the guy, but by the time the masses came to their senses and his true colors came out, it was too late to do anything about it.
Then here comes the allies to save their asses and now 50 years later, we are doing it to ourselves.

That's what happens when you let socialism start as a small cancer cell one lie at a time.

WTH are you talking about. You don't even know what socialism is.