@hightor,
Quote:"Styled" means it looks like the real thing. When a cop confronts someone brandishing a .38 he'll behave differently than when someone's carrying a military look-alike. That's why people are mistakenly shot dead for carrying a pellet gun or pointing a toy at someone.
People are shot carrying pellet or toy guns because they take the orange plug end from the barrel. All of these types of toys/pellet guns are by law suppose to have the orange tip in the barrel so law enforcement know it isn't a real gun. How they react to a gun, doesn't matter what type of gun they have. If you pull a gun on a cop whether it is a .38 or an AR-15, they are going to shoot you.
Quote:I didn't know that. Interesting.
This isn't the majority of soldiers of course, but they can do it and I have seen them do it.
Quote:Yes. It was issued to me and I was instructed in its use.
So you are a vet? Awesome, if you were using the M-16 that had full auto, that puts you in the military during the 70's or 80's. As far as I know, the majority of the US military moved to the M16A2, which wasn't full auto, in the mid to late 80's. What branch did you serve in?
Quote:Depends on what the gun is used for, right? We're not allowed to have more than 6 rounds in a clip when hunting. I had to fit a block of wood in the clip to make the gun legal to even carry in the woods. For self-defense I don't see why anyone would need more than 9 or 10 rounds which is what most semi-auto pistols hold. "Offensive capability" means that someone could enter an area and squeeze off a lot of shots without stopping to reload which would be very useful if your intention was to take out as many people as possible.
What you are describing is law speak, what does the manufacture say is high capacity. I don't care what the laws say, none of them were put in place with common sense being used. They were arbatry # picked by politicians.
Most semi-auto handguns, depending on their size and the type of ammo they are using, do not come with 9 or 10 rounds unless it is a small gun. I have 2 S&W semi-auto hand guns, they both shoot the same ammo, 40 S&W, my "full" size hand gun, which has a 6" barrel holds 15 rounds in the mag and that is how the manufacture built the gun. My compact gun has a 4.5" barrel and only holds 10 rounds in the mag, once again this is how the manufacture produced the weapon. That is a far cry from what a politician or you "think's" standard capacity means.
How do you know how many rounds someone is going to need to protect themselves? Have you ever been in that sort of situation that allows you to speak with some level of authority on the subject?
Quote:Nice. Call a guy a liar! Christ, talk about "offensive capability"!
I had to say something to get you to prove you hunted. I now accept your claim and appoligize for my rudeness.
Since you know a little bit about hunting, then you should know the rounds you use will rely on what you are hunting. Coyotes will take a different round than a deer, and a deer will take a different round than an Elk... so on and so forth. Do you deny that hunters use either 5.56 or .223 ammo for hunting smaller game like small deer and coyotes? I would never hunt an Elk with 5.56 or .223, I would use something more along the lines of a .308.
Quote:And much of that banning talk is spread by the pro-gun side.
Sorry but you are wrong about this. Look at the reason for our talk, Mass wants to ban the very type of gun we are talking about, because of a single school shooting in their state. It's the anti-gun left that starts the talk and then push it past talk right into law, as Mass has done. Do you think it is paranoria that leads to the sales? Nope it's the actions of politicians and the anti-gun left.
Quote:And guys who already have a ******* arsenal run out to spend more money on more guns. It's irrational.
If they are allowed to own guns and have no criminal records, what do you care if they own 10 or 20 rifles, they aren't harming you.
Quote:And really man, when someone shoots two dozen schoolkids do you really wonder why people might innocently question why so many kooks have guns and why nothing is done about it?
This was taking place long before Sandyhook. Do you not remember the "assault weapons ban" from 1994? There has been a constant attack on gun rights by the anti-gun left. So many kooks? You are proposing that everyone who owns guns is a kook. As long as the left go after the right to own a gun, you will have people who fight against the grab.
Quote:Maybe the gun manufacturers can start making guns that look friendlier, like those pink ones they market to women.
A gun looks how a gun looks. If the sight of a gun bothers you, maybe the problem is you and not the person who owns the gun. They do make guns in colors other than black and pink. In fact you can get a gun made in about any color you want if the company has the ability to do so. My buddies Ar-15 is a slight champagne color due to the protective coating that was applied to it. It doesn't look anymore "scary" than a black one. I have a chrome colored mini-14 Ranch rifle and it doesn't look scary either.
