Originally posted by Eon Bluereminds me of the intro of bowling for Columbine. “Don’t you think it’s dangerous handing out a gun in a bank?”
I’ve always wanted to visit Spain, as I have predominantly Spanish blood.That being said, gun laws in the US are ridiculously lax and need improvements. Anyone can buy a gun at Academy… take that as you will.
I gotta address the "Anyone can buy one at Academy" nonsense.
Academy uses the federal system for background checks. I know because I was wrongly denied a purchase at Academy years ago because the feds had an error in their database. That started a year long issue I had getting that corrected. Anyone can buy ammo at Academy. This isn't the ammo control thread though.
Funny thing happened to me. I bet I am the only one in this thread that has ever got on the phone and told the FBI they have made a mistake. Guess what? They told me it was impossible for them to make the mistake I described. Pretty indignant about it ,too. So I get a fax number. I faxed the a copy of their mistake to the nice lady. She never called me back but less than a week later I got a corrected document.
Guns are easy to buy at a legitimate licensed firearms dealer if there is no reason to deny you. If you haven't done anything crazy yet because you don't have a gun to do it with then there is probably no reason under U.S. law to deny you any legal purchase.
I know more than one person with many more firearms than I will ever own. Oddly enough most of us don't hunt. We like shooting paper and aluminum cans and shiny pieces of steel and varying distances. Those of us with high caliber and power rifles like to compete with each other. No difference than people that like to build hotrods. Nothing illegal until they run the thing balls out on a public road.
Seriously, I want to know how you will take the firearms out of the hands of every person in this country that is not paid to carry. If you don't take them then nothing changes.
Just to give you fellas something to go on about, I live in the state that everyone is allowed to carry on their person starting September 1 without a license. I worded it that way because we have all been allowed to carry in our vehicles since 2007 without a license. Will I carry one on my person. No, if I wanted to do that I would have gotten a CHL long ago.
Originally posted by Blakemore
So a lot of you just take pleasure in shooting aluminum cans? 😂 is that really so fun?
Yes. We also have shiny hardened steel targets we can set anywhere we like at any distance we like. My brother did kinda lay down the law about my steel tipped rounds. They will crack one of his fancy hardened steel targets. We have popped numerous holes in 3/8" steel plates with those rounds. We will pick any target and take turns until someone does something impressive.
Now we have some military that practice regularly. There are very few police officers that practice regularly. (% wise). Most gun enthusiasts like us are much better shots than your average police or military personnel. We also have a choice of what we want to shoot and what feels goood. Most police and military have limited choices of weapons in comparison.
I wouldn't own a gun nor shoot a gun unless I know exactly what I was doing. Santa brought me a sweet high powered pistol last Christmas. Christmas day myself ,my son and my daughter all had a blast trying it out. After her first shot my daughter turned to me and asked why my 9 was so much louder than the others. I laughed when I told her the reason was mine isn't a nine. It just shoots like one.
Reminds me of the Top Gear episode where they graffiti each other’s cars with messages like “man love rules ok” and “Hillary for president “ and “I’m bi”
Then they drove through Alabama and Clarkson said “they shot their own sign, what are they going to do to us?”
Anyway, they stopped at a petrol station and some rednecks threw rocks at them.
Some guys play video games. Some guys build cars and motorcycles. Some guys sail. Some guys fish. Some guys shoot.
If you have never done enough shooting to become good at it you really don't understand the fun in mastering that particular skill. I only know 1 guy that unloaded a pistol in someone. A theif caught in the act.
Morally, did the theft justify the shooting? Matter of opinion. It did rehabilitate the theif? He stopped on the spot.
CA Advances "Texas-Style" Bounty on Illegal Guns
Today, the California Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 1327, private right of action legislation authored by Senator Robert Hertzberg and sponsored by Governor Gavin Newsom to limit the spread of assault weapons and ghost guns.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last December allowing Texas's ban on most abortion services to remain in place, Governor Newsom directed his Administration to work with the Legislature to propose a measure, modeled on the structure of Texas's abortion law, to enable private citizens to hold the gun industry accountable through civil litigation for the proliferation of illegal firearms.
"This week's unconscionable act of gun violence is a tragic reminder of the lives that are at stake in this crisis that endangers communities across the country," said Governor Newsom.
SB 1327 allows private citizens to bring civil actions against any person who manufactures, distributes, transports, imports into the state, or sells assault weapons, .50 BMG rifles, ghost guns, or ghost gun kits.
Woman Arrested After Toddler Shoots Baby
A Tampa woman was arrested after a toddler in her care shot a 5-month-old baby, according to police. A release from the Tampa Police Department said officers responded to a home in Sulpher Springs just after 1 p.m. on Saturday after the caller said a 5-month-old baby was shot in the hip.
Officers said Paula Marie Concepcion Santos, 25, was the only adult in the home with the infant and the toddler, who is 3-years-old. The baby was rushed to Tampa General Hospital. Police said the child is expected to survive. Tampa police arrested Santos and charged her with child neglect with great bodily harm.