As a veteran, I feel that I have been stereotyped. I also strongly resent the suggestion (subtle, and occasionaly overt) that I was trusted to kill or die for my country when they found it useful, but somehow untrustworthy, dangerous, or 'not quite right' now that I'm home.
I'm sure the theory is that soldiers only enlist because they are homocidal to begin with *countenance falls, shakes head*. Apparently sense of duty is a mental illness now (and the Anti's/Statists are somehow nihilists
)
Yep. They are kept off to the side so they do not corrupt the rest of Hell's residents....
Riiight next to the black rifles
Questions/comments on the article:
-Is 300,000 guns siezed in crimes legit, or does that merely include those siezed for evidence (i.e. suicides, justifiable homocide, defense, etc.)
-Why the hell is the Webley listed a "well known" revolver model here in the states?
-Revolvers are hardly "not regulated"
-"Tactical Pistol" haven't heard that one, kinda like it; better than "Machine pistol" which is what I think they actually meant (since "assault rifle" now means semi-auto, and all)
-Ithaca pumps aren't considered common anymore
-Glaring lack of definition of "military style parts" at this point (just like the laws :banghead
-Manually reloaded guns are
hardly unregulated (twice, now
)
-AK is noticeably absent from Common Rifles list (though props for Saiga in shotguns)
-"also known as assault rifles" :yuk: yeah, to people who decided on their own to call them that to connote them with select-fires
-I'm sure the NSSF said they were popular with people besided vets
and the article just forgot that detail (they really do think we're Fudds in this day and age!)
-Well thank God "Full Auto" got it's own category; don't see that often. Understandably so, seeing as they're so rare in real life and so common in the movies, that writers assume they're all the same. Thank you for not stating "generally unregulated"
. I love how a registry is "heavily regulated" but a proposed UBC and registry are "common sense." I'm sure they're just ignorant the registry was closed in '86 and not '34.
-No picture of the frequently-regulated Broomhandle with its fixed, slow-load fixed magazine alongside the box-mag
-CASES ARE NOT DISPOSABLE!
All in all, pretty good for journalists. Best I've seen in a while. Major props to the Post for at least not infuriating me as I read through this. Aside from the bizarre "unregulated" assertions (which I assume refer to AWB restrictions), this infosheet is probably close enough for government work (or at least help them know what the heck they're actually banning). This should be required reading for the Senate/House subcommittee hearings on this stuff (as well as an FFA/NFA primer).
I told the Post they should do a piece on existing federal gun laws, in a similar vein (what applies to what types of guns, and how they're licensed)
Looks like they cleaned up the article.
Ah, so that explains it. Well, kudos to them for actually listening; that's new--and promising
TCB
