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    Winchester SuperX2 - bolt jamming hard, part way back

    The gun happens to be the SuperX2 Mk1 practical Wish I took a proper picture when it happened. It's happened a couple of times, with birdshot. Note, the gun reliably cycles said birdshot, and I can also reliably FTE with Walmart-special-whitebox, without causing the problem. Basically, the...
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    SF Chronicle: liberal paper doesn't think VT shooting will create gun laws

    I think, and have posted, that while it's still in their favor, they don't have the shock and quite the same media favor they used to. That said, I've noticed Rosie is trying to pull the "us gun controllers are the underdogs" tactic, that may become widespread too. "(We're the underdog, we...
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    What new gun control laws do you see being proposed?

    MikeH: You are correct. I meant the exclusions. The things that will stop you buying a gun will never really go away. There are all those little addons (child criminal history, etc.) excluding one from gun ownership. The only irreperable thing I can think of on those other filters is...
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    What new gun control laws do you see being proposed?

    I'm not seeing much of anything, except for the AWB. Rest diluted or forgotten. Noncitizens is IMHO a dead end. A noncitizen is at max 5 years from being a voting citizen. It's too logistically difficult to make the transition (what do you do with all the guns noncitizens already own?)...
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    Magazine capacity used by VT shooter?

    The mag count becomes pseudo-relevant because: There isn't a realistic gun control bill in play to ban handguns, or to force licencing/registration. The only factor that can be tied to a realistic piece of federal gun legislation is the connection with the Assault Weapon ban, which...
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    Is the political/media response to this shooting lower than in the past?

    . . .. . from an antigun perspective. I remember the Clinton years. I call out to people who remember those days, and maybe back to the late 80s. . . . . There were a bunch of publicized shootings in 1999-2001. Someone would go nuts, and immediately Clinton and other politicians would...
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    (UK) Knife amnesty nets 17,700 weapons

    Actually, the knife bans really won't ban any "ordinary" people. . . . that's technially correct. Picture the british equivalent of someone in your social standing/job. He doesn't carry a knife, and is scared at the sight of them. Gun? No way. "Ordinary" people do not plan self defense...
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    Texas Traveling law for Non-CHL

    While I don't know the preferred car procedure for this (guessing it would come from custom or something some police dept said, rather than the law) - the law itself has nothing to say about "Cars" with respect to your travelling. Edited to add: They STILL left the "tavelling" thing vague...
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    Liberals Urged to Take on 'Right-Wing Nuts' on Talk Radio

    You then vote strategically and try to buy time. Time to play with your toys, time to spend the income that "congress failed to tax away" to buy someone else health insurance. What is the republicans' gift? Inaction, at least less "Action" than the other side promises on wealth...
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    House Dems Strip Jefferson of Panel Seat

    All Delay has against him is a DA willing to pursue a failed prosecution (it'll go away after the election). All Jefferson has against him is 90K in the freezer. One of them is in legal trouble, the other is just in for a smearing. Delay's crime is being a really powerful speaker of the...
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    Vandals cut Minutemen's border fence

    Anyone involved with this border mess need to think really carefull about what he's doing. Prevailing policy (note - not law - POLICY) of both countries is for people to keep crossing the border. The forces pushing it are doing it (at every level) for economic gain, minutemen types are not...
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    Liberals Urged to Take on 'Right-Wing Nuts' on Talk Radio

    The "cool" thing about the "fairness" doctrine is being the one to determine what constitutes a political position and its counter. The masters-of-what-we're-allowed-to-say concerned will simply declare CNN/NBC/ABC/etc. to be unbiased. A person on TV reading news and pushing republican...
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    Liberals Urged to Take on 'Right-Wing Nuts' on Talk Radio

    "left" and "right" are such nebulous groupings. How did "right" end up with guns and "left" end up with gay people? Pat Robertson is nuts, can't he switch teams? The "right"'s arguments aren't necessarily less assailable, whether when they are in the right or when they are full of it...
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    Liberals Urged to Take on 'Right-Wing Nuts' on Talk Radio

    They don't have to be able to support theselves - it is not in violation of socialist doctrine to force others to pay for their propoganda.
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    Are any Republican presidential hopefuls really supportive of the 2nd Amendment?

    77% rule - 77% of the population support any "reasonable" incremental gun control step. A politician who openly opposes 77% of the population on an issue is not viable a national politician. Take the AWB. Kerry openly supported the AWB. Clinton openly supported the AWB. Bush openly...
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    Thoughts on Being a Liberal Gun Owner

    O'Reilly has gone ecomarxist apes**t as well, giving clear bias toward wealth redistribution or environmentalism. Your site will actually demonstrate my point. They miss his errors/lies (that he makes because he's O'Reilly) on those topics as that's "normal", and isn't even noticed. Only...
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    Gun Control Today

    Gun rights is the mother superior of lost causes. While few favor banning guns, 77% of the pouplation supports any given "reasonable" gun laws. Reasonable ones, neither at the "extreme" of just anyone being able to buy assault weapons and not wanting to be licensed, and the "extreme" of...
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    Thoughts on Being a Liberal Gun Owner

    It's hard to work out if Fox is Republican or conservative biased, or just seems that way relative to the others. To fix such a label on it involves defining some "middle" (itself a rhetorical political strategy). Sean Hannity is a conservative/republican to a fault. He follows the party...
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    Hi. I live in NY and I'm mad as hell.

    Trusted isn't the right word - it's tolerated. Without getting to how the conclusion is made, guns are bad, they have to go away. It's a little unkind to take people's guns; but less so to phase them out. Each "legitimization" of a use of guns, or reduced barrier in obtaining and using...
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    Possible Third Party Strategy?

    Honestly, the best third party strategy would be to make a party that adopts a more pure version of your adversary's politics, then siphon off their votes. I.e. if you're a conservative, start a socialist party that cares about the trees. If you're socialist, advocate some libertarian or...
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