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January 2, 2009, 06:19 AM | #26 |
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May be it's something in the water up in NY
I had a guy at my gun club last month who moved down here from NYS a few years back and his 'solution' to our 'gun control' problem was we need someone in government who actually knows about guns and which ones are good and which ones are bad to determine this for us. I was just lost and could only give him that blank look.
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January 2, 2009, 07:29 PM | #27 |
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El Paso Joe:
Kafkaesque??? , as in Kafka. My former girlfriend, back when our hair was dark, ad long suffering wife has an MSW from Columbia University, circa 1964. She has been known to "blaze away" with ponderous dignity, using a Smith Model 15, which she shoots double action. Used to be she could take the upper half of the "A" zone out of a standard IPSC target at 25 yards. I would NEVER offer ANY discretionary authority or power to ANY Civil servant, appointed, elected or otherwise. BTW, I lived in NYC for many, many years, leaving it in 1967. blume357: One finds passing strange legislation/regulations in any number of locales. For instance, as memory serves me, it is or used to be that Glock Pistols couldn't be sold in South Carolina. Seemed they failed some sort of "melting point test". I don't especially care for Glocks, a subjective judgement, however they do seem to work. As for this business over/about "Assault Weapons/Assault Rifles, most individuals in "public life", haven't the proverbial clue re what it is they speak of. Ignorance is simply a lack of information. The syndrome they suffer from is very much worse, which brings interested parties to the following question. How is it that such creatures obtain public office. |
January 3, 2009, 01:03 PM | #28 |
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That's scary. In NYC the M1 is an assault weapon. And even if it weren't, the commissioner can declare it one. |
January 3, 2009, 03:48 PM | #29 | |
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January 3, 2009, 07:24 PM | #30 |
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The Garand is banned in NYC. Only exemptions were for gun clubs or vets that already had them registered before the ban.
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January 3, 2009, 07:28 PM | #31 |
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Well it sure as hell was one at Normandy.
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January 5, 2009, 12:28 PM | #32 |
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Crime in New York as decreased dramatically because of banning Garands. No landing craft full of criminals carrying Garands stormed Brighton Beach or established beach heads on Staten Island. See, it is a good policy.
Long Island and the Hamptons are safe also because of this policy.
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January 5, 2009, 11:24 PM | #33 |
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Glenn E. Meyer writes:
Crime in New York as decreased dramatically because of banning Garands. No landing craft full of criminals carrying Garands stormed Brighton Beach or established beach heads on Staten Island. See, it is a good policy. Long Island and the Hamptons are safe also because of this policy. I removed myself from NYC, where I had been born, raised and lived for many years in 1967, however even in those fargone years, neither I had niot taken note of the city being invaded, perhaps by the British coming down from Canada, so there would be no "need" for the possession of "assault weapons", such as the Garand, by the citizenry. As for The Hamptons being held safe, I think it's more a question of attitude, rather than the banning of so-called "assault weapos" that keeps them safe. In any case, The Hamptons are somewhat removed from NYC and it's ordinances. As to Brighton Beach, were we used to play outdoor handball during the summer, as I understand, that area has been pretty much taken over by what is sometimes known as The Russian Mafia, gun control didn't work there either. |
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