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Should handguns be illegal?

Ban handguns?

  • Ban handguns

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Do not ban handguns

    Votes: 52 92.9%
  • Make restrictions (specify)

    Votes: 4 7.1%

  • Total voters
    56

Bigfoot 88

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Simple question.

Should the guns that are used the most in shootings, handguns, be banned in the United States?
 
Nope, shot guns are too hard to conceal in your holster.
Simple question.

Should the guns that are used the most in shootings, handguns, be banned in the United States?
 
Common Sense answer.
 
Simple question.

Should the guns that are used the most in shootings, handguns, be banned in the United States?

only if the police and military cannot use them for the supreme sovereign (The people of the united states) should have free access to any weapon a civilian police officer can use and the standard individual weapon of an infantryman unless one's rights have been set aside by due process of law
 
Simple question.

Should the guns that are used the most in shootings, handguns, be banned in the United States?

Nope.That said the only way I would support a hand gun ban is if all the handguns that the government has was also banned and melted down,after all what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.
 
Simple question.

Should the guns that are used the most in shootings, handguns, be banned in the United States?
No firearm should be illegal. Not any of them.
 
No firearm should be illegal. Not any of them.
inB4 "what about missiles and grenades?"

Those aren't "firearms". A "firearm" is a weapon which expels a projectile by means of explosive action. Grenades are just explosives and missiles are self-propelled projectiles; neither of those are firearms.

Yes, machine guns and artillery should be re-legalized.
 
1. No, that would be unConstitutional.

2. No, because handguns are also the firearm most commonly used for self-defense.

3. No, because taking mine is going to create a really bad day for some poor unfortunate sumbitch....
 
inB4 "what about missiles and grenades?"

Those aren't "firearms". A "firearm" is a weapon which expels a projectile by means of explosive action. Grenades are just explosives and missiles are self-propelled projectiles; neither of those are firearms.

Yes, machine guns and artillery should be re-legalized.

They are legal, just heavily restricted. Muzzle loading artillery isn't even restricted, actually.
 
They are legal, just heavily restricted. Muzzle loading artillery isn't even restricted, actually.
Civilians cannot own modern machine guns and artillery. That's a ban. I'm not a collector of curio and relic, I'm a user of modern arms.

Likewise, no firearm should have to be registered.
 
I really thought we could own machine guns, we just have to pay a tax.
Civilians cannot own modern machine guns and artillery. That's a ban. I'm not a collector of curio and relic, I'm a user of modern arms.
 
I really thought we could own machine guns, we just have to pay a tax.

only those made and registered with the ATF before May 19, 1986. You have to be a class III dealer with a police letterhead request in order to possess one made after that date
 
I really thought we could own machine guns, we just have to pay a tax.
You can't own anything made or registered after May 1986.

Forget all about Colt's latest M16, the newest machine gun a civilian can own will be 27 years old.

It takes between 8-16 months to get the stamp before you can even buy the weapon. Once you buy the weapon the individual transaction has to be approved through the ATF, taking even more time. You have to get permission from your sheriff, and the sheriff can rescind that permission at any time fro any or no reason at all. If a new sheriff comes into office and decides " machine guns are iky, turn them in", you have to turn your weapon in. And you have to have annual inspections of the firearm. And you're home is subject to surprise ATF inspection.

That's a ban.
 
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Civilians cannot own modern machine guns and artillery. That's a ban. I'm not a collector of curio and relic, I'm a user of modern arms.

Likewise, no firearm should have to be registered.

Depends on how you define a modern machine gun. A civilian can own an M-2, M-16, M-60 etc. Probably not a SAW, but then again, I doubt there are any SAW's in ciruculation outside the US military, or other national militaries that we've sold them to.
 
Dang it, a 50cal would be so cool on my back deck. Oh well.

They were making Maw-Deuces prior to May 1986. I used to be 1/3 owner in a Maw-Deuce and a half own of an M-16.
 
Depends on how you define a modern machine gun.
Made this year. Colt's 2013 version of the M16. Modern, recent, current. Pick your synonym.

What if you could only own a computer made before May 1986....when I say I want a modern computer I'm talking about Samsung Galaxy S4, not a pre-Tandy with 4 megs of memory and maybe a rudimentary dial up modem if I'm lucky. I want the 4G network of firearms.
 
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Made this year. Colt's 2013 version of the M16. Modern, recent, current. Pick your synonym.

I saw your post about the Mwy 86 deadline after I posted.
 
I want the 4G network of firearms.
You know what? Forget that. Google Glasses will evolve into contact lenses in a couple years...I want the Google contact lens of firearms. I want suppression, I want 7.62 ful auto, forward grip, collapsing stock, I want no questions asked.

Getting a gun should be a free and protected as getting an abortion. At least the person I kill will have committed a crime first.
 
No firearm should be illegal. Not any of them.

One of the phrases I dislike that I hear from the right is "enforce the laws already on the books".

No, get rid of them too.
 
One of the phrases I dislike that I hear from the right is "enforce the laws already on the books".

No, get rid of them too.

All firearms laws are illegal. All of them. Each and every one. Federal and State.

The constitution spells out exactly what Congress can do, and any power not specifically given to congress is reserved to the people. There are many powers given to Congress, and rightly so, imo. To coin money, to establish an army, to regulate interstate commerce. To declare war.

You will not find in the constitution anywhere, the power to regulate arms given to the Congress.

The ATF: Unconstitutional.
Any and every gun law of any and every kind, ever: unconstitutional.
FOPA: Unconstitutional.
Militia Act of 1903: unconstitutional.
Gun Control Act: unconstitutional.

Congress has exactly zero authority to make any law in any way whatsoever respecting private ownership of arms.
 
Made this year. Colt's 2013 version of the M16. Modern, recent, current. Pick your synonym.

What if you could only own a computer made before May 1986....when I say I want a modern computer I'm talking about Samsung Galaxy S4, not a pre-Tandy with 4 megs of memory and maybe a rudimentary dial up modem if I'm lucky. I want the 4G network of firearms.

Dude thats a phone not a computer lol
 
Dude thats a phone not a computer lol
Dude a Droid IS a computer. And I don't mean in the technical sense. In may ways, my droid is more powerful than my computer. It has the same internet connection and up/download more people contact me through my phone than through my computer, internet, it plays many many games, it manages ID security, it takes video....and oh yea, it also makes phone calls.

The only things my desk-top has over my Droid is a better graphics card and a bigger screen. I would include my Razor Nostromo in that short list but I'm pretty sure there's a way for my Droid to use it also.

Everything I can do on my computer I can do on my droid, including post on this very website, just not MMORPGs. My Droid fits in my pocket, that's a fair exchange.

When my son mentions in passing some movie he saw a commercial for, I've never used my desk-top to search for that movie, play it's trailer, buy tickets to see it that evening, then use m desk-top to navigate my way to the theater I've never been to which I just bought tickets for.
 
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Dude a Droid IS a computer. And I don't mean in the technical sense. In may ways, my droid is more powerful than my computer. It has the same internet connection and up/download more people contact me through my phone than through my computer, internet, it plays many many games, it manages ID security, it takes video....and oh yea, it also makes phone calls.

The only things my desk-top has over my Droid is a better graphics card and a bigger screen. I would include my Razor Nostromo in that short list but I'm pretty sure there's a way for my Droid to use it also.

Everything I can do on my computer I can do on my droid, including post on this very website, just not MMORPGs. My Droid fits in my pocket, that's a fair exchange.

When my son mentions in passing some movie he saw a commercial for, I've never used my desk-top to search for that movie, play it's trailer, buy tickets to see it that evening, then use m desk-top to navigate my way to the theater I've never been to which I just bought tickets for.

You mostly described the internet. How much does your phone do in dead zones? I have a old computer but it still does many things that my phone cant do. But I guess it just depends what one does, if its just the internet then a phone is fine.
 
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