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What if we Ban Assault Weapons, but permit use at Gun Ranges?

Nickyjo said:
So you can mount a cannon on your garage roof and aim it at your neighbors? Or an anti aircraft weapon near an airport. It is my business if I am your neighbor. Grow up.
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The one who needs to grow up is you. Pointing a projectile weapon at someone is threating them. Owning a projectile weapon is not. What I own is none of your business. Period. Now if I threaten you with them, thats another thing entirely and you are well within your rights to counter that threat. Owning something does constitute a threat by the way.
 
Nickyjo said:
So you can mount a cannon on your garage roof and aim it at your neighbors? Or an anti aircraft weapon near an airport. It is my business if I am your neighbor. Grow up.
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Already regulated and or prohibited by law. :roll:
 
Nickyjo said:
So you can mount a cannon on your garage roof and aim it at your neighbors? Or an anti aircraft weapon near an airport. It is my business if I am your neighbor. Grow up.
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You pour out this drivel and tell HIM to grow up?
 
Lursa said:
What is the specific point of this compromise? Why are you enabling people to shoot them at gun ranges (and why are you capitalizing 'gun ranges?')

Would these 'assault weapons' be 'rented' from the gun range? Or owned by Americans (which seems unlikely since you say they would be banned.)

So...what is the point of this compromise?
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Because gun grabbers just love one sided compromises.
 
PirateMk1 said:
The one who needs to grow up is you. Pointing a projectile weapon at someone is threating them. Owning a projectile weapon is not. What I own is none of your business. Period. Now if I threaten you with them, thats another thing entirely and you are well within your rights to counter that threat. Owning something does constitute a threat by the way.
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Sorry, I just think some types of weapons should be prohibited for private ownership. But the battle is lost on my side. I can't understand why the French eat snails or why my countrymen eat guns.
 
JazzBaseball said:
I was reading this article today, It's time to bring back the assault weapons ban, gun violence experts say.

Not being a gun owner and not having any interest I do question whether there is a need to own assault weapons.

However, I am wondering if a compromise could be made. What if we ban assault weapons, but permit the use of them at Gun Ranges?

Based on the article above it may not hurt to have the ban in place.
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I would say you are showing a negative interest in guns, but not much knowledge of them or firearms laws.
Most gun haters do the same. Very little to NO knowledge of firearms or the laws pertaining to them.
Do a little research and you will find your answers.
 
Nickyjo said:
So you can mount a cannon on your garage roof and aim it at your neighbors? Or an anti aircraft weapon near an airport. It is my business if I am your neighbor. Grow up.
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I don't point my 300 Winchester Magnum at my neighbors. Why would I point my cannon at my neighbors? I have a cannon, BTW.
 
Nickyjo said:
So you can mount a cannon on your garage roof and aim it at your neighbors? Or an anti aircraft weapon near an airport. It is my business if I am your neighbor. Grow up.
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You probably need to move....heh heh heh.....You damn right we can mount whatever we like....except you got one thing wrong. We were trained not to aim weapons at innocent, law abiding folks. Besides being rude and ignorant, it's called brandishing and is illegal. As another poster wrote, if some of you guys/gals would do some research, you will find that everyone is pretty well covered when it comes to being safe, because of guys like me,..... except we need to repeal the GCA and the NFA. "All" federal gun laws are unconstitutional.
 
JazzBaseball said:
I was reading this article today, It's time to bring back the assault weapons ban, gun violence experts say.

Not being a gun owner and not having any interest I do question whether there is a need to own assault weapons.

However, I am wondering if a compromise could be made. What if we ban assault weapons, but permit the use of them at Gun Ranges?

Based on the article above it may not hurt to have the ban in place.
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Handguns are used 20x more often than 'assault weapons' (assuming you mean semi auto long barreled guns) in homicides. And no amount of banning will stop criminals from getting them.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-4.xls
 
JazzBaseball said:
I was reading this article today, It's time to bring back the assault weapons ban, gun violence experts say.

Not being a gun owner and not having any interest I do question whether there is a need to own assault weapons.

However, I am wondering if a compromise could be made. What if we ban assault weapons, but permit the use of them at Gun Ranges?

Based on the article above it may not hurt to have the ban in place.
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What if we ban high performance cars, but allow them on tracks?

What if we ban high performance computer rigs but allow them in server rooms?
 
Scorpions said:
You probably need to move....heh heh heh.....You damn right we can mount whatever we like....except you got one thing wrong. We were trained not to aim weapons at innocent, law abiding folks. Besides being rude and ignorant, it's called brandishing and is illegal. As another poster wrote, if some of you guys/gals would do some research, you will find that everyone is pretty well covered when it comes to being safe, because of guys like me,..... except we need to repeal the GCA and the NFA. "All" federal gun laws are unconstitutional.
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If I remember correctly, my comments responded to a poster who suggested an unlimited right to own firearms, which I believe is not the case, according to the Supremes.
 
Nickyjo said:
My point was that the notion that second amendment is absolute is drivel.
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LOL, and the 2nd amendment doesn't cover any of the weapons you spewed onto the page - It's not absolute, like all rights there are numerous restrictions on it.
 
Bullseye said:
LOL, and the 2nd amendment doesn't cover any of the weapons you spewed onto the page - It's not absolute, like all rights there are numerous restrictions on it.
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On gun ownership, the 2nd Amendment is absolute.
 
apdst said:
On gun ownership, the 2nd Amendment is absolute.
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My point to him was weapons like anti-air missiles, etc. where not covered by 2A.
 
JazzBaseball said:
I was reading this article today, It's time to bring back the assault weapons ban, gun violence experts say.

Not being a gun owner and not having any interest I do question whether there is a need to own assault weapons.

However, I am wondering if a compromise could be made. What if we ban assault weapons, but permit the use of them at Gun Ranges?

Based on the article above it may not hurt to have the ban in place.
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Very few people are killed with "assault weapons", a term fabricated by the anti-gun left. It's a legal term, not an actual term used for firearms. That's why many pro-Constitution people derisively call it a "scary gun" ban.

Gun banners run around screaming about how over 30,000 Americans are killed each year by guns but they never point out that 2/3s of those deaths are from suicides, mostly older white males and mostly with handguns, sometimes a shotgun. I've never heard of anyone using an "assault weapon" to commit suicide, but I'm sure it's been done.

IMO, the reason gun banners keep screeching about banning "assault weapons" is because it's a step; First ban the guns the least people possess then work your way up to the gun most people possess which are handguns.

Handguns lead to the most deaths be it about 22,000 suicides or about 8000 gun murders (out of about 12,000 total murders). About half of all murders (approx 6000) are with a handgun. As the linked OP article points out (rather hysterically too) only 302 people died of "assault weapons" over a ten year period from 2004-2014 when, over the same time period, there were about 60,000 handgun murders, 220,000 gun suicides and a total of over 440,000 total suicides...not that anyone gives a damn about the latter since they are too busy trying to ban guns.


FBI Murder statistics:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....able_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2010-2014.xls
 
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