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    how is "gunviolence" like an epidemic?

    The published one in 2003: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5214a2.htm "During 2000--2002, the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force), an independent nonfederal task force, conducted a systematic review of scientific evidence regarding the effectiveness of...
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    A Carcano joins the Carbine clan. Really?... A blonde Italian?

    Also a Mannlicher M1895, which are probably still pretty cheap. I got one from J&GSales 4 years ago for $150 + $15 shipping that came with matching bayonet. Picked up 4 of the en bloc clips for $20. The downside is the ammo is hard to find. Very nifty little rifle though; straight pull, en bloc...
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    Embarrassing for Gun Rights - Why it's important what you post on Social Media

    It's a bit like if the CEO of Diageo got hit by a drunk driver and people were now making mean spirited memes with a picture of him in the hospital. Knowing how the Internet can be though, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.
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    California's new law allows for gun confiscation without notice

    +1 This law is rather important in that it is explicitly targeted at gun owners who by definition are law abiding. After all, If they were a violent criminal there was already a Federal law against them possessing a gun, has been since at least 1938...
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    National Basketball Association is airing anti Second Amendment PSAs

    +1 on what Red Wind said. These (https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/expanded-homicide-data/expanded_homicide_data_table_3_murder_offenders_by_age_sex_and_race_2014.xls) are the 2014 homicide stats by offender from the FBI, but pretty much...
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    New Shift in Attempted Gun Control

    Heck, the whole market has done very well for the last 5 - 7 years. The question is how much are their shenanigans holding back their performance and raising fees/commissions/etc? Edit to add: well, that didn't take long on Google. Apparently mismanagement, high fees, and playing politics like...
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    New Shift in Attempted Gun Control

    One of the best funded or one of the best managed? After all, Bernie Madoff was pretty well funded. If they're considered well managed, those other public pension systems must be setting the bar awfully low. I'm no expert, but from that article it really sounds like the managers are churning...
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    New Shift in Attempted Gun Control

    :shrug: All they're going to accomplish is lowering returns for their fund members. Heck, they might even run the fund into the ground. Not that they probably care, I'm sure the managers are getting rich off their fees. They're basically the stereotypical 1% that the protesters were talking...
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    New Shift in Attempted Gun Control

    This is dumb on a number of levels: If they're picking individual stocks then by definition they're not using index funds in their pension fund, which means they're most likely ripping their customers off on fees :uhoh: They're not only stock picking and probably charging high fees...
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    NOT A TROLL - Serious Question

    Something else to consider; anti-gunners love to say that high gun ownership should prevent mass shootings, while conveniently forgetting that even if 100% of non-criminals owned guns that wouldn't prevent any crimes in public if citizens aren't allowed to legally carry sidearms. When it's not...
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    The tide has turned

    That's why having this on the ballot wouldn't be such a bad thing. If it wins, the losing candidates should be barred from running for public office for at least the next few elections.
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    What would you tell yourself back then?

    If I could go back to Jan 2009 when I bought my first gun I'd have told myself not to. I still like that 1911, but it wasn't worth what I paid. I compounded the mistake by buying it off post in WA, thereby getting hit with the 9.3% mark up. I don't regret the second one at all, but I should have...
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    The correct argument we don't hear on state with 'lax' Gun Control laws

    Cook and Ludwig, hardly shrills for the NRA, tried their best to show that the 1968 GCA and the Brady Bill accomplished something. They were unable to: http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2000/08/study-finds-brady-act-ineffective-reducing-homicides...
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    Analysis of Brady Campaign Statistics

    There's numerous problems with even their "crime guns exported". If they're pulling their "trafficked guns" data from the same place Bloomberg did then they're using ATF trace data: https://www.atf.gov/about/firearms-trace-data-2014. There's a couple issues with that though, and the ATF says it...
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    Most mass shooters got there guns legally

    Depends on what definition of a mass shooting we're running with. The VPC likes to use a definition that includes those news stories since it drives up the raw number of mass shootings. Most though use the definition of at least 3 homicide victims in one incident, and those are also the cases...
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    Why brick and morter are dying

    Sort of. It seems like there's a bit of confusion going on between 'local' and 'small' businesses. Just because they have a website doesn't make a business an IBM or a Microsoft. Transfer fees aren't a complaint against small or local businesses, they're a complaint against the stupidity of...
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    bs gun control/safety groups

    They couldn't care less about safety, it's just that their PR advisers told them that "gun safety" sounds better than "gun control". http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/01/political-language http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/748675/gun-violencemessaging-guide-pdf-1.pdf They...
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    Why brick and morter are dying

    + 100 That law badly needs to be fixed, amended, scrapped, something. Or a truly pro-gun President could just order the ATF to declare all Title I firearms to be curios. That law is seriously anti free commerce. Don't even get me started on the import restrictions...
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    Daily Beast: Hillary Really Is Coming For Your Guns

    Heck, I've known people in the Army who didn't even own a gun but had more than 20 mags at home with their gear between mags for the M16/M4 and the M9. :uhoh:
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    Creating a contingency plan to influence the legal language of a UBC

    Of course, even if that was done CA would still have their silliness: https://www.empirearms.com/cal-ffl.htm You know, because before they commit a homicide someone would be sure to want to pay $30 to send the ATF their name, SSN, and home address first :scrutiny:
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