
..well I never knew that. ..
No, the real tough guys burrow their way to the top, removing granite with their teeth.Rum wrote:Mount Everest is hollow??!!![]()
..well I never knew that. ..
Ying tong iddle i po!
Seth could do that - if he wasn't always armed to the teeth.Blind groper wrote:No, the real tough guys burrow their way to the top, removing granite with their teeth.Rum wrote:Mount Everest is hollow??!!![]()
..well I never knew that. ..
Surely if it looks like a weaopn to a member of the public it counts as one if you use it in another crime. Whether it works or not isnt relevantWumbologist wrote:For anyone who doubts that the media will full-on lie to sensationalize the topic of gun control in the US:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12 ... snhp&pos=1
Oh my! Rocket launchers! That darn second amendment is nothing but trouble!
One problem, though. The launcher pictured is an AT-4, a single-use tube. There are literally thousands of these empty, non-reusable tubes around, look around flea markets or army surplus stores and you'll typically find them for around $50. Once the rocket has been fired out of it, it's no longer a rocket launcher, it's a useless tube that might look cool if you put it up on a wall. Someone doubled their money on this buyback and the media pounced on it as evidence of how scary guns are because every American gun owner has rocket launchers hiding in their basement.
I doubt it'll go that far, but I expect the inexcusable types of firearms to go. There's no defensible reason whatsoever to own an AR-15 with a 30 round magazine.orpheus wrote:As I've said before, the guns will eventually go, because they will simply become socially unacceptable. If nothing else, their prevalence will vastly decrease, as has happened over the past decades with smoking. Guns will follow suit. It is already happening. The current noise making of the gun proponents is simply because they know that they're on the defensive now, and ultimately they will lose.JimC wrote:That's something, at least, though it's only about banning magazines with a capacity greater than 10.Blind groper wrote:Interesting to note that Americans in general, since the massacre, have hardened their views, with more wanting stricter gun laws. 62% now want bans of guns that hold more than 10 bullets in the magazine.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/27 ... trol-poll/![]()
No rational argument (eg. "for hunting") could be made for 30 shot magazines. If you are such a poor shot that you need a 30 round semi-automatic togo hunting, try going to a butcher's shop instead...![]()
Cue Seth with a "when they prise them from my cold, dead hands" line...
The army surplus store in the city I spent a most of my time growing up in used to sell MK. 2 grenades. The blackpowder and ignitor were removed of course.. but it's not as if blackpowder is hard to come by.Wumbologist wrote:For anyone who doubts that the media will full-on lie to sensationalize the topic of gun control in the US:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12 ... snhp&pos=1
Oh my! Rocket launchers! That darn second amendment is nothing but trouble!
One problem, though. The launcher pictured is an AT-4, a single-use tube. There are literally thousands of these empty, non-reusable tubes around, look around flea markets or army surplus stores and you'll typically find them for around $50. Once the rocket has been fired out of it, it's no longer a rocket launcher, it's a useless tube that might look cool if you put it up on a wall. Someone doubled their money on this buyback and the media pounced on it as evidence of how scary guns are because every American gun owner has rocket launchers hiding in their basement.
No hand grenade manufactured since the Civil War uses "blackpowder" as it's fuse.Făkünamę wrote:The army surplus store in the city I spent a most of my time growing up in used to sell MK. 2 grenades. The blackpowder and ignitor were removed of course.. but it's not as if blackpowder is hard to come by.Wumbologist wrote:For anyone who doubts that the media will full-on lie to sensationalize the topic of gun control in the US:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12 ... snhp&pos=1
Oh my! Rocket launchers! That darn second amendment is nothing but trouble!
One problem, though. The launcher pictured is an AT-4, a single-use tube. There are literally thousands of these empty, non-reusable tubes around, look around flea markets or army surplus stores and you'll typically find them for around $50. Once the rocket has been fired out of it, it's no longer a rocket launcher, it's a useless tube that might look cool if you put it up on a wall. Someone doubled their money on this buyback and the media pounced on it as evidence of how scary guns are because every American gun owner has rocket launchers hiding in their basement.
Sure there is. It's called the Right to Keep and Bear Arms that's explicitly protected by the 2nd Amendment. According to Supreme Court precedent, of all of the possible configurations of firearms that are protected by the 2nd Amendment, AR-15s with 30 (or 100) round magazines are the most stringently protected of them all.Făkünamę wrote:I doubt it'll go that far, but I expect the inexcusable types of firearms to go. There's no defensible reason whatsoever to own an AR-15 with a 30 round magazine.orpheus wrote:As I've said before, the guns will eventually go, because they will simply become socially unacceptable. If nothing else, their prevalence will vastly decrease, as has happened over the past decades with smoking. Guns will follow suit. It is already happening. The current noise making of the gun proponents is simply because they know that they're on the defensive now, and ultimately they will lose.JimC wrote:That's something, at least, though it's only about banning magazines with a capacity greater than 10.Blind groper wrote:Interesting to note that Americans in general, since the massacre, have hardened their views, with more wanting stricter gun laws. 62% now want bans of guns that hold more than 10 bullets in the magazine.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/27 ... trol-poll/![]()
No rational argument (eg. "for hunting") could be made for 30 shot magazines. If you are such a poor shot that you need a 30 round semi-automatic togo hunting, try going to a butcher's shop instead...![]()
Cue Seth with a "when they prise them from my cold, dead hands" line...
Nope. Not in any modern hand grenade since before WWI.Făkünamę wrote:Blackpowder was used as the ignitor charge when the filler was regular, everyday, smokeless gunpowder.
It's not the facking fuse.. it's the ignitor charge. Reading comprehension. Jeebus. I'm also talking about a specific frag grenade - the MK 2.Seth wrote:Nope. Not in any modern hand grenade since before WWI.Făkünamę wrote:Blackpowder was used as the ignitor charge when the filler was regular, everyday, smokeless gunpowder.
A grenade with a black powder "fuse" would go off the instant the spoon was released and the primer ignited.
All modern grenades (in fact all grenades) have a time delay fuse of some sort, beginning with cannon fuse and now using a complex stack of chemicals that delay the ignition of the booster charge long enough to arm and throw the grenade.
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