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Why would you own an assault rifle?

Would you own an assault Rifle? Why?

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I don't see why I would need one. I'm not making a statement for or against gun rights here, I'm just saying that I personally don't feel the need to have one. I don't associate with sociopaths, I don't go to dangerous areas, and I'm a wallflower who probably isn't a likely target anyhoo. If I ever did feel the need to get a gun in self-defense it wouldn't be an assault rifle.

On the other hand, I understand guns just about as much as the average retiree understands computers, so no need to take my opinion to heart :lol:
 
MadLib said:
I don't see why I would need one. I'm not making a statement for or against gun rights here, I'm just saying that I personally don't feel the need to have one. I don't associate with sociopaths, I don't go to dangerous areas, and I'm a wallflower who probably isn't a likely target anyhoo. If I ever did feel the need to get a gun in self-defense it wouldn't be an assault rifle.

On the other hand, I understand guns just about as much as the average retiree understands computers, so no need to take my opinion to heart :lol:
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You know that is an honest position

I don't do golf so I don't own golf clubs

I don't do ballet so I don't own a leotard or ballet shoes

I don't bowl anymore so I sold the ball I had

but I am not going to tell someone else its silly to own a set of irons, a tutu or a bunch of bowling balls (my friends say they have different balls depending on how slick or dry the lanes are)

its about choice!!
 
I would own a assault rifle just because I wanted too. There should be no reason to question another American why they want to own a firearm. There is the presumption of innocence that is more important than what someone else believe is the purpose of owning a assault rifle. After all no one questions someone when they are buying fuel. And one could use fuels to kill a great number of people at onetime. In Norway massacre furl oil and fertilizer killed 8 people and injured 209. The majority of gun owners are responsible and will never kill anyone. Take guns away assault rifles or whatever and people will still kill people one way or another.
 
TurtleDude said:
because that is what the current military issued weapons are and its easier to reload then the weapon I listed above

also every fully automatic weapon currently available uses either a magazine (hand held) or a belt feed (usually tripod mounted)
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Yes, they are easier to reload which means more people can be killed with them before reloading. This is why they were banned in the US in the 90's and why they are illegal in Mexico.
 
TurtleDude said:
Shooting Enthusiast - Understanding 18 USC 922R

this describes this idiocy

I had a Egyptian made AK that was only legal if it had an American made mag (guess what-many mags don't have any identifying marks)

I friend of mine is an AK expert and was in the Russian Naval infantry as an armorer. I gave it to him and he rebuilt it with a bunch of american parts
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Eeehhh, I dunno. I think the code goes along way toward baffling; as in exhaust, a foreign market that can under cut US law. The AK is of course all satinless steel and can shoot in wet sand, but, it ain't what we look for in the US: ya'know? It's I think; not ours . . Something like that. And I have to say; given the news lately, that assault weapons and multi round clips are going to be thing of the past in the consumer market.

BTW, I go to school these days with a gal who grew up in Russia and her family's next door neighbor was Mikhail Kalashnikov . . .
 
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iacardsfan said:
Constitutional Right my ass, when the Constitution was written we didn't have Assault Riffles. Everybody had guns because they hunted for their food, they didn't have high tech homes where they could protect themselves, and they did not live in an age where they could just fire off a nuke to protect themselves. Times have changed, I'm not saying that gun laws would prevent these shootings, but what I am saying is that not having these laws in place gives people a more easy means of doing so. If somebody were to obtain Assault Riffles illegally, we know that the only thing that can be done is to step up enforcement, there is no question whether if we had a law in place would it have stopped this event. Nobody needs an Assault Riffle for protection, and if you do, then you have bigger problems on your hands.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al. v. HELLER
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We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those "in common use at the time." 307 U. S., at 179. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of "dangerous and unusual weapons."

FindLaw | Cases and Codes
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Back then the musket and Kentucky long rifle were 'in common use at the time', and so those arms were protected. Today the M16 is 'in common use at the time', and so the M16 is protected. In 50 years should sci-fi laser rifles become 'in common use at the time', laser rifles will be protected for private ownership by the 2nd Amendment.
 
Pinkie said:
Let me state my bias first: I have never even fired a gun and I wish 99% of the people who owned them did not. I seriously envy countries where guns are so uncommon, even the cops don't usually carry them. That said, I understand gun-control types like myself lost the constitutional debate and now must accept a country in which gun ownership (should be) virtually uncontrolled.

But as to assault weapons, I think the slippery slope is not as to other guns but as to other weapons. If these are legal, why not other means of mass destruction?
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An assault rifle is not a W.M.D. Please keep the emotional hyperbole to a minimum.
 
Jerry said:
Back then the musket and Kentucky long rifle were 'in common use at the time', and so those arms were protected. Today the M16 is 'in common use at the time', and so the M16 is protected. In 50 years should sci-fi laser rifles become 'in common use at the time', laser rifles will be protected for private ownership by the 2nd Amendment.
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Aww dude I so want a Pulse Rifle!
 
Catawba said:
Yes, they are easier to reload which means more people can be killed with them before reloading. This is why they were banned in the US in the 90's and why they are illegal in Mexico.
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you really are clueless as to guns-what was banned was magazine fed weapons that had "bayonet lugs" "flash hiders" "Pistol grips" and "folding stocks"

real assault rifles have been highly regulated since 1934 and any made after May 19 1986 banned for most people to own. The magazine limits were not based on any empirical evidence-it was a number pulled out of someone's butt
 
TurtleDude said:
you really are clueless as to guns-what was banned was magazine fed weapons that had "bayonet lugs" "flash hiders" "Pistol grips" and "folding stocks"

real assault rifles have been highly regulated since 1934 and any made after May 19 1986 banned for most people to own. The magazine limits were not based on any empirical evidence-it was a number pulled out of someone's butt
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Precisely. What an abysmally uninformed set of restrictions. Like a semiautomatic rifle becomes a self-automated hunter seeker when you put a folding buttstock or a lugnut on it. :roll: Our idiot congresscritters instead went with whatever "looked scary".


Any decently trained/practiced shooter can fire multiple well-aimed shots a second with a semi-auto, and a speed reload of magazines is accomplished in less than 2-3 seconds, depending on whether they have it stacked or are pulling from a pouch.

But thanks, Congress! Due to your cracking down on collapsible buttstocks and 15-round magazines Now We Are All Safe!!!
 
Banning Abortion and Guns would be the two biggest mistakes America could do.
 
Dem said:
Banning Abortion and Guns would be the two biggest mistakes America could do.
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Banning clueless noobs however, would be the best thing DP could do.
 
Dem said:
Banning Abortion and Guns would be the two biggest mistakes America could do.
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good points. both would cause massive civil unrest
 
cpwill said:
Precisely. What an abysmally uninformed set of restrictions. Like a semiautomatic rifle becomes a self-automated hunter seeker when you put a folding buttstock or a lugnut on it. :roll: Our idiot congresscritters instead went with whatever "looked scary".

Any decently trained/practiced shooter can fire multiple well-aimed shots a second with a semi-auto, and a speed reload of magazines is accomplished in less than 2-3 seconds, depending on whether they have it stacked or are pulling from a pouch.

But thanks, Congress! Due to your cracking down on collapsible buttstocks and 15-round magazines Now We Are All Safe!!!
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The bipod: A device made for keeping a weapon stable in a prone position... or the evolution of legs?!
 
We obviously need assault rifles because after we plug that deer or burglar the first time, we have to keep shooting it to make sure it's dead.
 
Wake said:
We obviously need assault rifles because after we plug that deer or burglar the first time, we have to keep shooting it to make sure it's dead.
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no we need them to deal with all the brainless idiots who think that the only legitimate use of weapons is to slay bambi
 
Wake said:
We obviously need assault rifles because after we plug that deer or burglar the first time, we have to keep shooting it to make sure it's dead.
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Yes, exactly.
 
TurtleDude said:
no we need them to deal with all the brainless idiots who think that the only legitimate use of weapons is to slay bambi
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The more I post in this thread with you, the more entertaining it gets. Cheers to you lol.
 
TurtleDude said:
no we need them to deal with all the brainless idiots who think that the only legitimate use of weapons is to slay bambi
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Not sure who you mean by brainless idiots, so that's probably flavor text or hackishness.

So what are assault rifles for? Killing evil government henchmen in the distant future? I can understand handguns, shotguns, etc, but an assault rifle that can be used to mow down a whole classroom of kids... not so much.
 
Wake said:
Not sure who you mean by brainless idiots, so that's probably flavor text or hackishness.

So what are assault rifles for? Killing evil government henchmen in the distant future? I can understand handguns, shotguns, etc, but an assault rifle that can be used to mow down a whole classroom of kids... not so much.
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Assault rifles are illegal.
 
Romulus said:
Assault rifles are illegal.
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If assault rifles are already illegal, then I don't understand the hubbub over this issue. Knowing that rocket launchers are illegal, why would you own one?
 
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Wake said:
Not sure who you mean by brainless idiots, so that's probably flavor text or hackishness.

So what are assault rifles for? Killing evil government henchmen in the distant future? I can understand handguns, shotguns, etc, but an assault rifle that can be used to mow down a whole classroom of kids... not so much.
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Police officers are issued real assault rifles. what for? I "need" them for the same reason

the issue is not the state of the art-be it a musket, a henry rifle, a winchester 94, a garand or a 40 watt plasma rifle

the issue is that we should have the same basic infantry weapon our tax dollars buys for members of our "well regulated militia" or police departments or National Guard

and my comment was about the second amendment-there are lots of brain dead idiots who say we don't need weapons that are not suitable for hunting. that is idiotic--as the bumper sticker says--If you think the second amendment is about duck hunting you are just plain daffy

Killing people is not alway the worst choice. and when it is the only rational choice you have, then you want the tools to do it
 
Romulus said:
Assault rifles are illegal.
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not quite true

read the 1934 National Firearms Act and the idiotic Hughes Amendment. If you live in the right state and have enough money to say buy a Honda Accord you can own one
 
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