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Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
4/15/14 2:14 p.m.

April 15th deadline to register "assault weapons."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2014/04/13/as-many-as-one-million-armed-new-yorkers-are-about-to-break-the-law/

That's a lot of criminals.

bigdaddylee82
bigdaddylee82 HalfDork
4/15/14 2:24 p.m.

I struggle to stay off my "soap box" on stuff like this. "Assault weapons," please, suffice it to say, were I a New Yorker, I'd be a "criminal" too.

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yamaha
yamaha UltimaDork
4/15/14 2:37 p.m.

<<<<Not surprised by that many people telling them to GFY.

pilotbraden
pilotbraden SuperDork
4/15/14 2:52 p.m.

Good for them, more citizens should tell the public servants to piss off.

Bumboclaat
Bumboclaat HalfDork
4/15/14 2:54 p.m.

Bobzilla
Bobzilla PowerDork
4/15/14 2:56 p.m.
pilotbraden wrote: Good for them, more citizens should tell the public servants to piss off.

This. And not just about asinine gun control laws. Someone needs to remind these pencil necks that they serve us, not the other way around.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
4/15/14 3:05 p.m.

Everyone should register a few of these just to gum up the works:

Dr. Hess
Dr. Hess MegaDork
4/15/14 3:14 p.m.

Connecticut too. Meanwhile, in California, the lead state Democrat pushing gun control on the peons and author of the impossible to implement microstamping BS is arrested for selling guns, RPG's, SAM's, etc. to (almost) terrorists.

Bobzilla
Bobzilla PowerDork
4/15/14 3:17 p.m.

Ahh.... the ol' "do as I say not as I do" routine.

Dr. Hess
Dr. Hess MegaDork
4/15/14 3:21 p.m.

The best line went like "when I'm Secretary of State, this will be much easier and we won't have to go through Florida...."

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
4/15/14 3:23 p.m.

I love these threads.

Bobzilla
Bobzilla PowerDork
4/15/14 3:40 p.m.

That's not technically accurate. This is the first "assault RIFLE":

The Brown Bess was a musket as it's bore did not have any rifling to spin the projectile. Basically a single bullet shotgun.

yamaha
yamaha UltimaDork
4/15/14 3:45 p.m.

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

Pretty much, its just now we don't get the same(or better) stuff as the military

In reply to Bobzilla:

Pretty much, back then the military used highly inaccurate smoothbore muskets, most of the colonists had much more accurate/effective rifles.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
4/15/14 3:51 p.m.
Bobzilla wrote: That's not technically accurate. This is the first "assault RIFLE":

Dr. Hess
Dr. Hess MegaDork
4/15/14 3:52 p.m.

The advantage of the smoothbore musket was that it could be reloaded in a fraction of the time it took to reload a rifle. The U.S. Civil War 1 changed that with the introduction of the mini ball, which loaded into a rifle as fast as a musket, then expanded the base when fired to engage the rifling to impart spin for accuracy.

oldeskewltoy
oldeskewltoy Dork
4/15/14 4:00 p.m.
Bobzilla wrote: That's not technically accurate. This is the first "assault RIFLE": The Brown Bess was a musket as it's bore did not have any rifling to spin the projectile. Basically a single bullet shotgun.

this...

although its origins (Kentucky, or Pennsylvania) are disputed. Historians tend to lean to Pa being the original home of the "Kentucky Rifle" If you were talented you might get off 2... MAYBE 3 rounds a minute...

The first "rapid" fire rifle(4-6 rounds per minute), the Ferguson breech loading rifle would be considered what??

slantvaliant
slantvaliant SuperDork
4/15/14 4:09 p.m.
Dr. Hess wrote: The U.S. Civil War 1 changed that with the introduction of the mini ball ...

You mean the Second American Revolution?

wbjones
wbjones UltimaDork
4/15/14 4:18 p.m.
slantvaliant wrote:
Dr. Hess wrote: The U.S. Civil War 1 changed that with the introduction of the mini ball ...
You mean the Second American Revolution?

the northern war of aggression

HappyAndy
HappyAndy SuperDork
4/15/14 4:23 p.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Everyone should register a few of these just to gum up the works:

Man, I've got a couple of way more powerful hammers, that would probably be legal

Kenny_McCormic
Kenny_McCormic UberDork
4/15/14 4:27 p.m.

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

Would one of these be a "machine hammer" or something then?

Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
4/15/14 4:43 p.m.

It might be time to take up gunsmithing. Then they will want me to register these.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
4/15/14 4:50 p.m.

In reply to Toyman01:

How do you even get to that fridge for beer?

Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
4/15/14 4:58 p.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: In reply to Toyman01: How do you even get to that fridge for beer?

That's the back.

Kenny_McCormic
Kenny_McCormic UberDork
4/15/14 5:06 p.m.

In reply to Toyman01:

I've constructed a (legal) functional firearm with nothing beyond a hand drill.

mistanfo
mistanfo UltraDork
4/15/14 5:10 p.m.
wbjones wrote:
slantvaliant wrote:
Dr. Hess wrote: The U.S. Civil War 1 changed that with the introduction of the mini ball ...
You mean the Second American Revolution?
the northern war of aggression

Disagreement amongst Her Majesties former holdings.

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