Ronald Reagan used gun to save nursing student.

[Dionysusigma]

It's been two hours... anybody? I'm not saying Reagan wasn't a great guy--his speeches were/are more compelling than anything I've heard lately. It's just that on a board where discussion of the RKBA is practially its core purpose, this point hasn't come up once.

 

[jsalcedo]

The machine gun ban was attached at the last minute to the Firearm owners protection act.


The "FOPA" was a great piece of legislation that was difficult to get through congress and I guess the last minute machine gun clause was not enough of a poison pill to make it worth killing the whole bill.


I don't think Reagan should be blamed for that one.

 

[2nd Amendment]

It's a crap technique. Stick some abomination onto a popular or necessary piece of legislation then sit back and grin. "Pass my disgusting POS or kill something important and publicly humiliate yourself". Next piece of legislation I want to see is one ending Poison Pill Riders...

 

[Nightfall]

Dionysusigma

Reagan may have offered the NRA a veto on the entire thing because of the MG ban.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthre...5&highlight=reagan veto nra fopa&pagenumber=1

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthre...light=machinegun and nra and ban&pagenumber=2

 

[jAK-47]

I think Mrs. Brady stole it when he was in the hospital.
She had the barrel filled with cement and presented it to Diane WineStain to use as a paper weight. There is an inscription that reads, "For the children".

jAK-47

 

[roscoe]

So who was it who signed the May 1986 bill that stopped production of civilian-transferable fully automatic firearms?

He also signed California's most drastic gun-control law when governor. Evidently, he found the notion of blacks with guns quite frightening.

 

[ww_kayak]

An old thread, but I just heard it from the horses mouth

Reagan Interview on GunTalk

 

[sniper5]

Cool story!!

 

[BearAZ737]

Is it even legal to point a gun at someone from your window/balcony/car window when someone else is in immediate danger today? I live on the 2nd floor on a noisy street by campus and I always wounder if I had to do that if i would get in trouble? Anyone know?

 

[GRIZ22]

Is it even legal to point a gun at someone from your window/balcony/car window when someone else is in immediate danger today? I live on the 2nd floor on a noisy street by campus and I always wounder if I had to do that if i would get in trouble? Anyone know?

Use of deadly force laws in the state you are in will apply.

 

[BCCL]

Is it even legal to point a gun at someone from your window/balcony/car window when someone else is in immediate danger today? I live on the 2nd floor on a noisy street by campus and I always wounder if I had to do that if i would get in trouble? Anyone know?

If "defense of others" is a legal defense where you live, then yes. If someone sees a guy threatening someone with a weapon from 15ft away, or through a scope 200yds away doesn't matter.