No, Lancer, it's just that we've been down the whole gun regulations debate road a thousand times before and I think we're just putting a damper on it now. It's Modacity's 2nd oldest dead horse to flog, up there with ripping.
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No, Lancer, it's just that we've been down the whole gun regulations debate road a thousand times before and I think we're just putting a damper on it now. It's Modacity's 2nd oldest dead horse to flog, up there with ripping.
Neither of us were trolling, simply debating the issues with firearm regulations. Since I'm sure we both share a similar love for guns. For example, in America regulations vary from state to state. In New Hampshire or Vermont (usually live in one or the other) I have almost no restrictions on firearms other than being a NH resident I need to have a license to carry a concealed and loaded firearm (which I have). Other than that everything from automatics to suppressed weapons, hell suppressed automatic rifles are legal. They are incredibly expensive and fall under class III requiring that you pay a $200 tax stamp on top of the fee, but still legal. This to me makes sense.
But where it starts to get ridiculous is when you get to the "Assault" weapons ban. States like Connecticut, New Jersey, California (obviously) ban aspects of rifles that they feel are solely for the purpose of an assault weapon and therefore no civilian should need them. Things like a telescoping stock (because that makes me 100% more deadly than a fixed stock that's at most 5" longer), flash hiders, because for some reason this makes you invisible when shooting and has no application for target shooting. Not like it helps manage muzzle climb or anything....California for a while had actually specifically banned the AK-47 and AK patterned rifles. I haven't kept up much with recent regulations over there so don't know how it still goes. And some of states still ban the owning of "high capacity magazines"....meaning anything greater than 20.
There's tons of other regulations similar to this that honestly I think are ridiculous and again have no affect on your ability to kill. Someone with a ar-15 carbine with a 20 round mag and a fixed stock with no flash hider can be just as deadly as someone with an ar-15 carbine WITH the telescoping stock, flash hider and 30 round magazine. Not all regulations are worthless, many exist for a reason, but things like this I just think makes no difference.
I thought California has some silly rule where you needed to have THREE things on a firearm that were classed as "assault weapons parts" for it to be illegal.
True statement. Thats why I never venture to the People's Republic of California.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
Just so everyone knows, I'm not really debating the laws right now, just discussing them. I don't live in the USA so I don't really KNOW the laws down there.
This guy is awesome though:
The interview with the guy in the crowd was planned earlier, and they organized their presence with the Police beforehand as well so they knew what was going on. There was a plain cloths officer attached to each guy with a firearm in their group at the event so that they could make sure everything went well. I think this is a great way to show how open carry works well.
EDIT - This is great:
The funny part is that the checkpoint is placed really badly, and that you can totally (legally) question officers back just like he does in the video. At least here in Canada you can, I assume you can in that state as well since they're doing it in the video. Not really sure what organization the checkpoint guys are with though so.
If I ever drive into the USA, any cool things like this I can do on camera? Can I legally film through a checkpoint?
Because this thread has been dead for a month, I figured I'd post some pics of my guns, starting with my ancient as fuck Remington 721. Tis a .30-06, and the ammo I posted it with are 165 grain Hornady Superperformance, which are listed at a very fast 2960 FPS. This is the load I use for all of my rifle hunting.
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We use 165grain SuperPerformance as well, we debated carrying some 190 around for Elk and Moose but in all likelihood it won't make that much of a difference. .30-06 is bad ass enough as is.
If you want to be pimp you use 168 grain Winchester Supreme Ballistic Silvertip:
Little more money but it looks awesome!!
I hate that Remington and Winchester haven't gotten with the program of using mixed powders. It makes their ammo seem worthless lol. Plus its all super overpriced.
never noticed much difference between the ballistic tips and regular cor-lok psp's.
just stay away from that Federal Fusion. it's horrible ammo and I've watched 3 other shooters and myself all with different rifles not able to shoot a group with it. it's maddening to sight in with. otherwise federal is pretty decent.
At least its not fucking Weatherby .30-378. Talk about overpriced proprietary ammo. $7/round.
