Would you be allowed to concealed-carry a leprechaun?
It was staring us both in the face right there in the title: Confiscation. Not some namby-pamby, one Saturday every few years, program where grandma gets a gift card for turning in her late husband’s service revolver, but National Guardsmen going door to door searching homes. It will give the “cold, dead hands” crowd a chance to put their money where their mouths are.
Okay, if you’re so smart then come up with something better. Here I am offering a way for hyper-masculine men like some of our users to pack heat like movie stars on their weekly trips to Home Depot while making the rest of of a little safer.
We can also save a lot of money on all those expensive military bases by having said National Guardsmen and other military personnel just live in people’s homes.
Since you evidently don’t understand why people own, want, or like guns, you are unlikely to develop a “solution”. You also fail to actually define a problem, much less look at any implications to said solution and/or look at the real state of the problem you previously failed to define.
This is something I see quite often from gun-control advocates. I can make a better argument than they can, but don’t because I also see the numerous problems with that argument.
So gun owners are paranoid, huh? :dubious:
It would also be a boom for the pickaxe/shovel/lockbox industry as gun owners coast to coast bury caches of weapons, like Sarah Connor in those years between Terminator and T2. Hopefully, with less dirt falling all over the guns.
I can see an amendment in that, and a great way to get rid of my surplus daughters.
This proposal is either a joke, or so poorly formed as to be indistinguishable from one.
That’s pretty much what they did here, actually.
And the internet made it easier for them to spout silly solutions to overblown problems.
Why would you want to give them a chance, or an excuse? One did and gave us a smoldering wreck of a federal building in Oklahoma City.
Actually, I do. I grew up around guns. I like target shooting and can satisfy that desire with BB guns in my basement because I see the point, and the challenge, as consistent and accurate shooting and I don’t need a .44 Magnum to do that, especially in my basement. I don’t hunt because it leaves a frightful, smelly mess and I have a root canal and crown named after a bit of birdshot I wasn’t expecting to bite down on, though deer watching the cars go by while looking like sides of beef on stilts and Canada geese, sized for a roasting pot, taking their sweet time crossing the street because they know I can’t do anything about it make me want to show them just who is Top Predator on THIS planet. As for collecting, let’s just say that the OP speaks for itself about a guy who wants all of those guns and more but doesn’t see the fun in owning anything as ugly as a Glock.
It’s satire. Jokes are funny. Satire is bitter. Duh.
You know those guys who say “From my cold, dead hands”? How many of them *actually *mean it; would rather die than lose their AR-15?
Even better, how many of them would kill or risk killing National Guardsmen in order to keep it?
Um I have to butt in here,
I have fired black powder rifles, smoothbores and pistols, they are scary, dangerous and unreliable IMO. The long guns are not so bad but have you ever heard the phrase
“flash in the pan”
that means misfire on a flintlock, misfire is very bad because black powder can burn fast, medium and slow and you have no idea which or if at all, there is a corkscrew like thingy you use to extract unfired shot from the weapon, want to try that?
“going off half cocked”
BP long guns have, in general, 3 hammer positions. Full cock(bang) half cock(load primer charge) and closed. Slip up unintended bang or misfire
Now to the fun part
I was out at the range and firing a replica Colt Navy .44 revolver. This is cap and ball meaning it uses a cap just like the ones you used as kids except the cap is enclosed in a small brass cylinder, this the primer and a .45 cal lead ball x6. Load weapon…
Take a measured charge of powder, put it down cylinder, with lever attached to barrel point at face and tamp down, take .45cal ball, place over cylinder bore and use lever to force ball into said bore, if you do this right a small ring of lead appears, do this 6x, while pointing at face. Next go to half cock and put caps on all the cylinders with a little squeeze to keep em on. Ready to fire but you are covered in lead and gunpowder. Draw to full cock, squeeze trigger and pop but no bang…
What are you going to do? This was a common problem in the black powder days, happened to me twice in 18 rounds
Modern cased ammunition is worlds safer for everyone, stable, predictable and uniform it goes off when you want it to and mostly does not when you don’t.
Modern BP guns are better but still iffy because BP is
Think a bit about this
Capt
You forgot “keep your powder dry” and “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”
Capt, I did think about that. It’s exactly the pain in the ass I was talking about, except you left out the part where you top off each cylinder with Vaseline so stray bits of powder don’t set off all the cylinders at once. Bearing arms may be a right, but there’s no Constitutional requirement that it be easy.
OTOH, you’d have to be nuts to go hunting with a flintlock, Dan’l Boone or not. That’s why I compromised with percussion caps, though the hardcore DIY survivalist may want to knap his own flints.
And Ethilrist, I mentioned the moisture problem and that whites of their eyes thing went out of fashion with rifling—ask General Sedgewi…
:eek:
The point was
if I was unclear Blackpowder is dangerous. Burns easily and unpredictable. There is also the lead thing.
“don’t fire til you see the whites of their eyes”
Need them close because they are not accurate, means collateral damage
Capt
Is that why we keep hearing a voice coming from your pants muttering something about ‘me lucky charms’?
No less accurate than a comparable modern long gun or handgun (Sedgewick was supposedly nailed at about 1000 yards), but wives might have something to say about cans of gunpowder around the house. No worse than if you were a reloader, but with BP everybody’s a reloader. So safety is an acceptable objection.
[aside] Local VFW hall had a range and a reloading station in their basement. Construction workers created a spark and had there not been serious injuries to people on the verges of my monkeysphere I’d say that hilarity ensued. Instead let’s say that the predictable ensued, but only fire. [/aside]