2nd amendment (latebreaking arguement)

Stephen,

Good luck on the game this weekend. I wish I could be there!

Graham

Heckler and Koch refer to their own G3 rifle as an "assault rifle" on their webpage.

"The G3 became the standard assault rifle of the German Bundeswehr in 1959 and is still used by more than fifty nations."

Perhaps H&K is a member of a propaganda creating gun censorship group?

Graham

I am not that up on modern firearms, but isn't the H&K G3 a military weapon and as such is full auto capable, putting it outside the arena of this discussion?
Regards,
Steve

[Vin]

Roadrunner

Looks like a gun lobby site to me.


Vin

[mike_baram]

"For example, if someone's handgun is stolen and used in a crime, the person from whom it was stolen could be held partially accountable"
Graham,
If your car is stolen and is involved in an accident causing injury or death, can you be held responsible? If it's stolen and used in a robbery, are you an accessory?
Mike

No.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Graham

I own a Ruger military style .22 semi-automatic rifle. The caliber is in the AR-15 range. I can pull the trigger equally as fast on both weapons.Tho' the .22 doesn't have the range of the AR, in a crowd the .22 could cause much damage. Is the .22 an assault rifle?
Ans I still say...How many gun massacres would occur if the gunman knew the office or school he wasabout to walk into contained people carrying concealed weopons that they had been trained to use safely and with respect ?
respecfully.
Dan

[mike_baram]

Dan,
The answer is "none". I can't remember if it was Sowell or Larry Elder who had a column a while back on that subject.
The guy who shot up the Jewish Community Center wound up there because the museum he had intended to attack was guarded. Inner city schools don't get shot up because they are patrolled by cops or private armed guards. No one is going to attack a place where he stands a good chance of being shot. So they choose targets in predominantly white, upper class areas.
I wonder what the job opportunities are in Kennesaw, GA.
Mike

Graham,
If your gun is stolen and used in a crime, then you can be held responsible? It would occurr to the normal average individual to REPORT his gun as being stolen, then he is protected if the gun is then used in the commision of a crime. However, your take on Assault weapons is correct to a small degree, AK-47's, M-16's, FN-FAL's, HK 91's etc. were all designed for military use in the field. These could be used to assault enemy positions. However the civilian versions of these are made to be semi-auto (can be converted to full auto if you know the right unscrupulous individual i.e. a machinist) and therefore really not assault rifles. If that were the case then we would have to term the Lee-Enfield .303, the Springfield 1903-A3, and the Mauser M-98 assault rifles. They WERE originally designed for military use and were used to assault enemy trenches in WW1. (Mandatory WW1 content there).
Regards,
Jim

Has no-one noticed that the istigator of this nonsense is playing no further part in the argumant he has stoked up? Have we learned nothing in the last two months? This is a highschool kid with a grudge against the world, one day he'll grow up. Will anybody else?