Automatics for the People

[RooK]

Forget that, I just want a folding stock so I can transport the thing in the vehicle and store it without taking up and extra foot of space.

 

[larryf1952]

Somewhere in here, someone mentioned that gunshows are frequented by a few of the more questionable types on the fringes of our hobby. While I've never witnessed any overtly obvious criminal activity going on at a gunshow, I did once see a couple of young guys trying to buy 9 Jennings pistols from a dealer. Thankfully, he declined to sell them to them. While I see a lot of ordinary Joes at gunshows, I'm still bothered by the GI Joes, who walk around in army boots and full camo (don't these guys own any NORMAL clothing?), with knives and bandoleers wrapped around themselves, carrying their pimped out SKS's, or the bandana bedecked gang member wannabes, with their room enough for a hamster farm baggy pants, handling the Glocks. Also, the T-shirt tables with the "Kill Them All and Let God Sort Them Out", and the "I Don't Call 911" logos emblazoned on them, tend to reinforce the fears and suspicions among the non-gun visitors. I'm not saying that these T-shirts shouldn't be sold, I'm just saying that it isn't really surprising that they might convey the wrong image to Grandma Betty.

I love gunshows, I buy all my reloading components and most of my guns there, but I have to admit that they could look a lot better, especially to the uninitiated.

 

[RavenVT100]

Any sport/hobby/activity/field is going to have its share of idiots. Unfortunately the idiots are almost always about 1000x louder than the non-idiots.

 

[13.45]

regarding a collapsible stock:

This could presumably make the firearm easier to conceal, which is unnecessary in hunting or hobby shooting.

as rook noted above, this does in fact make the firearm easier to transport while traveling by foot or vehicle, which has a definite utility to soldiers, sportsman, and hobbyists alike

as also noted above, research and/or informed opinion seems a little thin...

 

[TarpleyG]

Does anybody really know how a flash hider works. Seriously. We need to have a nightime education session. Have you ever seen an M16 fired at night?

They definitely work. I can shoot Q3131A (hot mil-spec ammo) out of my M4 with a muzzle brake and someone else right next to me can shoot the same ammo out of a barrel with a conventional flash hider. Flash suppression is dramatic. I just witnessed it last Tuesday night as a matter of fact.

Greg

 

[Hypnogator]

Suffice it to say that, if that's all my exhaustive work came to, the reporter was more of a ditz than she appeared. She seemed so smart, too...

Don't beat yourself up, Tamara. We've all been used in one way or another by reporters out to push their agenda. From what you're saying, I think you're wrong about her being a ditz. She was probably very intelligent and well educated. She was just interviewing you so she could (a) sound halfway intelligent about firearms and (b) say she was "objective" in presenting both sides of the issue.

As many others have pointed out, this is an anti- piece wrapped up in the language of objectivity 'Twernt no accident!

 

[KaceCoyote]

That page cant be heres, i mean... that one like has a gun!

 

[artherd]

Drat, I thought this was going to be about repealing the NFA

 

[fistful]

Does she use an air compressor to inflate her diction, or does she get by with a bellows?

increased capacity space of the magazine.

capacity space?

the magazine (the cartridge which holds the bullets)

Come again?

the looming problem with all of these regulations is that, ultimately, many people still owned what the government classified as “assault weapons†while the ban was in effect because of a grandfather clause

people had licenses to shoot these guns [grandfathered assault weapons]

what kind of a license would that be?

but plenty of murders and accidental deaths occur in the home, where no permit is needed.

yeah, we'd better get some training sessions and permits for those murderers

Even the gun enthusiasts at the rifle range would likely support stricter requirements as far as safety education...Hardin, who’s been shooting since his 8th birthday when he received his first .22 rifle

Yes, tighter regulation would have made it easier for young Hardin to learn to shoot safely. Unfortunately, he probably had to make do with personal instruction from a friend or family member.

gun shows have been under attack for years

yeah, from articles like this one.

folks at the RK Gun Show were less levelheaded

Notice that she gives no evidence of this? Or were you distracted by the abuse of alliteration? This next quote is even worse in that regard.

gun shows are notorious havens for unauthorized gun transactions (i.e. a good place for those with criminal records to get guns).

:banghead: the last half of her column is pure bigotry

One booth at the gun show features instructional CDs with titles such as “Silencer Cookbook†and “Full Auto Conversion.†The young man at the counter says of the latter, which describes how to convert a semiautomatic weapon into an automatic, “It’s kind of illegal, but it’s not illegal to know how to do it.

Bet she would defend this guy's right to sell a book about how to kill George W. Bush.

no reason any citizen would need one

What does this guy think a militia is for?

 

[publius]

I emailed her (the author) and told her that this was being discussed at length here.

Yeah, I did that too when I first replied to this thread. It was kind of an experiment, to see whether this reporter was really interested in learning something.

Looks like she was not.

As many others have pointed out, this is an anti- piece wrapped up in the language of objectivity 'Twernt no accident!

Yep.