Let's hear it for Barrett !!!... BRAVO!

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I'm currently saving up for a Barrett as my next purchase :D Had to agree to get the husband his Sharps rifle in 45/110 though eventually....
 
Calif PD's can just buy them "straw"-style from the NJ PD's. NJ PD's know that cops gotta be there for each other. Except those bums in VA, that is.

How's Barrett going to keep his guns from going interstate, outside his control?

Nice gesture, though.

Regards.
 
If only more gun makers would do this.

Let the police of California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York do their jobs with sticks and rocks!
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Unfortunately, some gun makers are falling over each other to develop smart guns to sell in New Jersey. This is maddening because the NJ smart gun law does not take effect until a smart gun product comes to market. If all gun makers colluded to not develop any smart gun products, the law would be meaningless. They should all follow Barrett's example.

Of course, the NJIT is developing smart gun tech by virtue of generous grants from NJ State gov and from the fed coming by way of Senators Corzine and Lautenberg. So once NJIT develops a smart gun tech, don't be surprised if George Soros or Corzine buy/found some minor gun company just to bring a smart gun to market and then close it down. Then we will be screwed in NJ.
 
Technosavant said:
It will be the people who created, nurtured, and took joy in a hoplophobic culture. I have sympathy for them if they suffer, but had they taken more care at the ballot box, CA wouldn't be the cesspool of Constitutional disobedience it has become.

Besides, let the police use Remington 700s in .308. If they wanted Barrett .50BMGs that badly, they would not have been primary advocates for their banning. If weapons themselves are that dangerous, we should not allow even the police to possess them.
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This is exactly the sort of wrong thinking I was talking about. It isn't the SWAT Team sniper, team members, or team leader that is wanting the .50s banned. Its the administration. The admin. doesn't use heavy guns. So are we hurting the police by not selling to or servicing their Barretts. Sure, but we aren't hurting the right individuals, are we? It won't be anyone in administration that gets killed raiding a meth lab or bad guy strong hold.

My guess is that most of you claiming that you are saving up for a Barrett won't ever get one, not until you feel like your rights are about to be taken away. Even then, it isn't likely. I say this not because I distrust any of you, but because every so often there is a thread like this and you get people posting about wanting to buy and saving up for Barretts, but then they never post about getting a Barrett. The post about every other gun they have purchased, but not about their Barretts...because they didn't ever buy one.

If the private sector purchased more Barretts, Barrett would not have to depend on military contracts and he depends on military contracts because of the low level of civilian sales.

Mostly I just see lots of scabbard rattling. There isn't really any saber rattling because so few of us have the Barrett sabers to rattle.

If I have offended you, then go buy a Barrett, get some decent long range Barrett training, come back, and rub my face in it. Then let's go to a 1000 yard range and bust some caps together.
 
Sleeping Dog said:
Calif PD's can just buy them "straw"-style from the NJ PD's. NJ PD's know that cops gotta be there for each other. Except those bums in VA, that is.

How's Barrett going to keep his guns from going interstate, outside his control?

Nice gesture, though.

Regards.
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Yeah, but what happens if it needs to be serviced? Barrett has terminated all service contracts with the State of Kalifonistan. One can only hope a bubba on the police force volunteers and totally screws up the rifle.
 
If the private sector purchased more Barretts, Barrett would not have to depend on military contracts and he depends on military contracts because of the low level of civilian sales.
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Errr... I don't think that's right. If my memory serves me correctly in his 60 Minutes interview Ronnie said that if civlian sales were shut off he'd be out of business.

The segment can be viewed here: http://justinbuist.org/images/60minutes-50cal-lieslieslies.wmv

Think about it... how many small arms does the military buy per soldier? I don't have a hard number, but when you consider folks in support roles it's probably less than 1 -- and there's only half a milliion and change of them. Heck, even the USMC probably only has 2 small arms per enlisted men, if not less.

Now, take a gander at your gun safe... more than 2 in there? Thought so. Now think about how many "gun nuts" there are like us out there compared to the half a million troops. If you figure 20 small arms per gunny out there we'd only need 1/10th the number of people in the military to equal that buying power, which means 50,000 people.

There's a lot more of us gunnies here in the USA than that!

Granted we were talking about police agencies... but the same idea holds true. One handgun purchased per officer every 3-5 years? A carbine or shotgun maybe every 10 years?

Private ownership of small arms dwarfs police and military ownership of small arms. The only upside to selling to the military/police is that they buy in bulk and they're less whimsical than us. They're more predicitable, but we're a bigger market.
 
Heck, even the USMC probably only has 2 small arms per enlisted men, if not less.
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Many bases do not have enough rifles for each Marine. Aboard MCAS Yuma, I had the same M16A2, and got to know it pretty well, (+23 left on the windage got me expert, third time to the range.) I had the SerNo memorized.

Aboard MCAS Miramar, you turn your rifle card back in after each range visit, because someone else will need it when they go to the range. I had a different rifle every year.

I bet MCB Camp Pendleton doesn't have that problem, though.
 
El Tejon said:
If only more gun makers would do this. :)

Let the police of California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York do their jobs with sticks and rocks! :cool:
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I was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Barrett and his son down at Knob Creek last weekend. In our conversation he mentioned that a few other manufacturers were going to be following in his footsteps.
 
Double Naught Spy said:
This is exactly the sort of wrong thinking I was talking about. It isn't the SWAT Team sniper, team members, or team leader that is wanting the .50s banned. Its the administration. The admin. doesn't use heavy guns. So are we hurting the police by not selling to or servicing their Barretts. Sure, but we aren't hurting the right individuals, are we? It won't be anyone in administration that gets killed raiding a meth lab or bad guy strong hold.

Snipped some of the quote to make it shorter.
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Until the team sniper and others are able to band together and tell the higher ups how badly they messed things up, not much will change.

And this concept is not just for police. You can go back to the passing of the awb and see how many elected folks lost their seats because of how they voted for that piece of legislation.

I am glad barret is doing this and I hope more do it with him.

Here in ohio when ccw was being worked on even the local tv sometimes mentioned that when someone said, "the police do not back ccw permits" that really meant the higher ups did not back it while the police on the street often said they were in favor of ccw.

I doubt you will ever get the higher ups to not say and do things that make it harder for the ones doing the actual work, but these days things are so far gone that it is time to speak up.

And if you are not willing to speak up to your boss because he is making your job that much harder and more dangerous, then I don't know what else to say.
 
While I can't affort a 50 at the moment, I would definitely take a gun mfg's pro 2A stance into consideration when buying a firearm in my price range.
 
I think the main point is that they will no longer SERVICE the weapons that have been bought.

Based on his actions I may have to add a Barret to the Serbu in the collection!:evil:
 
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