Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

oralloy wrote:

I'd like to see a cite before I accept a claim that the *semi-auto-only* version was ever intended as a weapon of war.

This is immaterial,

and what more, contradictory to gun-nut messaging. You guys just can't seem to get your story straight on full-autos; one minute, it'll be 'they're hard to hit with so it's ridiculous that they are banned, they should be legal;' the next minute, it's 'full-autos are weapons of war and semis are not, so there's a real difference between the two.'

The recent events in Vegas show that this is an meaningless difference anyway, as a semi-auto can fire just as fast as a full-auto and is just as deadly if not more so.

The fact of the matter is that everything I wrote was accurate: the M-16 was an adaptation of the AR-15, which was a rifle marketed to militaries.

And it should be banned,

as it's nothing more than a weapon of warfare and toy for wannabe soldier gun-nuts.

Baldimo wrote:

You can't mass murder people with a bow and arrow but does that really matter? To take your message of "weapon of war" we must follow through will all weapons of war, their ability to kill the masses shouldn't matter since most deaths by guns are not committed by AR-15 type guns. You just want to pick the cases that back your dislike of specific guns, which will turn into all guns. This type of BS and false claim about "weapons of war" proves it.

Literally none of that logically follows, it's just stream of consciousness ranting.

Baldimo wrote:

As for your uneducated opinion on the AR-15 and it's use as a hunting weapon, you prove you don't know what you are talking about.

That's the opposite of the truth. The AR-15 is not a good weapon for hunting deer unless it's been modified. A .223 is too small to reliably drop a deer in a single shot, let alone an elk.

The fact that it's semi-auto doesn't help much imho as I've never personally hit something with a second shot that I missed with the first one, ever, even when firing a semi-auto weapon. There's really not much to recommend it over a proper long rifle.

If any type of gun should be banned, it's a pistol, not a rifle, as pistols are mostly a coward's weapon and what's used in the vast majority of gun crimes.

A lot of hunters use semi-autos to soften the recoil of harsher rounds.

Pussies. The bruise is part of the experience.

The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty-aught-six" or "thirty-oh-six"), 7.62×63mm in metric notation and called ".30 Gov't '06" by Winchester,[3] was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in use until the early 1980s. The ".30" refers to the caliber of the bullet. The "06" refers to the year the cartridge was adopted—1906. It replaced the .30-03, 6mm Lee Navy, and .30-40 Krag cartridges. The .30-06 remained the U.S. Army's primary rifle and machine gun cartridge for nearly 50 years before being replaced by the 7.62×51mm NATO (commercial .308 Winchester) and 5.56×45mm NATO, both of which remain in current U.S. and NATO service. It remains a very popular sporting round, with ammunition produced by all major manufacturers.

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And... Nicole Kidman also, DOES NOT ENDORSE TRUMP.