Does More Than ONE Firearm make you a Possible Threat

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Was listening to radio while out today and news broadcaster was talking about the young man that did the shooting at Sandy Hook. They described that in search of his home more firearms and large amounts of ammunition. If the Media and others feel that more than 20 round of ammo and more than one or two firearms means your a Bad Person then I would only guess that most on THR would be looked at as a home grown terrorist. One year ago my wife asked me why I stocked ammo to which I replied because at the time I could buy it at a reasonable price, also I have several rifles, pistols, revolvers not to mention a fairly nice collection of Muzzle loaders. So How Many is too many?
 
Did they say he was a bad person because he had a lot of guns and ammo, or because he killed a bunch of little ones?
 
Yea, I have noticed the same thing from the media reports. I wonder what the reporters would say if he had a reloading bench.
 
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Yea, I have noticed the same thing from the media reports. I wonder what the reporters would say if he had a reloading bench.
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"He was manufacturing thousands of miniature improvised explosive devices at his home."

IE, bullets.
 
You asked "So how many is too many?". Well where I come from there aint no such thing as too many guns or ammo. There are however such things as too many badguys walking the streets commiting crimes, politicians who believe they are all powerful, and others who want to run your life instead of theirs.
 
And this should surprise any of you why? We know the media's agenda, it's not new. This is just the latest vehicle for their agenda.
 
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Looks at sig... Well, I am screwed.
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I guess I'm screwed too, I have a few more than that. Not to mention the several thousand rounds of ammo I have. But yet I make it to work every day, somehow taxes always get paid, and lookey there, never been in trouble with the law. Won't make the headlines huh?
 
Going by what's been reported from the Lanza household and strictly based on inventory as a measure of "badness," I can say that (having mellowed some with age and marriage) that I'm three times the bad person Lanza was, or so. This is down from my full-time .mil and single days, when I was probably more like ten or eleven times the bad person he was. :rolleyes:

Frankly, it doesn't sound like they found much of an arsenal for mass murder or doomsday prepping (which I thought the narrative claimed his mom was into).
 
new reports are making it pretty obvious that owning a gun makes you a bad person and actually using them makes you double plus bad.

1k rounds of ammo is an arsenal? really? Someone who goes to the range 5 times a year can go through that easily.


(or should that be double plus ungood, been a while :) )
 
I have 2 rifles and 6 handguns. Last time I checked I only have two hands. So how in the world does more than 1 handgun / 1 rifle make me a bigger threat?

with the some argument you could say that anyone who owns more than one magazine is a bigger threat...
 
There's a difference between ABILITY to inflict harm and PROBABILITY of inflicting harm, and they are distinctly different things.

If an entire police department went completely rogue, their ability to inflict harm would be huge. Most people don't worry about it though, because they consider it so highly improbable.

One nutcase in a cell presents a high probability of doing harm if released, but if kept locked up has no real ability to do so.

Leftist MSM seems to be willfully ignoring the distinction.

One decent law-abiding citizen with LOTS of guns is no great danger; one criminal nutter with a hammer is a real problem.
 
Just more old tired scare tactics from the media. Nothing new really, and expect more of it.
 
Ruh-roh. Apparently I have crossed into gun nut territory as well since I have added about a dozen to my collection in the last year as well. Of course it has more to do with having better finances than anything.
 
I have added firearms as my interests changed over the last 40 years but I have only sold 2. I guess I am imbalanced like that.
 
One media midget referred to Lanza's stash as "a massive arsenal of weapons." Don't let them peek into your safe!!
 
A friend of mine has never tried to injure anybody.
I've seen his ammo and it was inventoried at about 30,000 rds. of centerfire (.223-7.62x39-7.5 Swiss etc-8mm Mauser).

His twenty five near-mint milsurp rifles and two handguns (the P-64 Always kept in his pocket) never tried to hurt anybody.
How is that possible?:scrutiny: Maybe the guns never learned how to escape from his vault?
 
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1,000 rounds of ammo is 2 bricks of .22 Long Rifle. Given that you can't find any on store shelves today, that is a small reserve. Most non gun people have no idea how many guns and how much ammo is normal for gun people to have in their poession at one time. I laugh whenever I see a news article about somone having an arsenal. After Newton, my wife asked me if I had one of those "assault" rifles. I said yes and she asked why. When I explained that it was to shoot the coyotes that she hates, she just said oh. She is a non gun person and does not have a clue. She does know enough to handly our house shotgun. Joe Biden would be proud of her.
 
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