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A second national poll from a major media outlet in the past week has found a majority of Americans now oppose a ban on so-called assault weapons even after the New York Times published an editorial on its front page supporting it.

Fifty-three percent of respondents said they oppose a ban on assault weapons in anABC/Washington Post poll released on Wednesday, an increase of more than 10 points since the last time the question was asked in 2013. Forty-five percent indicated they would support such a ban, a drop of 11 points in the same time period. The poll of 1,002 adults, conducted between December 10 and 13, has been asking the assault weapons ban question since 1994, when 80 percent of respondents supported a ban while only 18 percent said they opposed it.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/s...assault-weapons-ban/

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Harald Weissberg posted:
HIFLYER2 posted:

Well the KIng will not let that stop him from doing a executive action!  I just ordered a AR-10 from buds 5 minutes ago.  Merry Christmas for me!

 

Picked up a CETME last month.

Picked up a Swiss K31, and ordered a scope mount last week.

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Always wanted a K31 or S-R 1911 because of their cool factor.

 

Stanky posted:

I'm sure the nekkid emperor will get around to assault muskets eventually!

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Just as a precaution, I got one.

Capable of launching a couple of ounces of 7.62 caliber projectiles in less than a second.

Not from a gun show or out of a van in Indiana.

Over the internet!  No background check!

I'm worried now I may have to retrofit it to make it a "smart gun."

My reproduction of an 1850's shotgun.

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Note in the above photo of the disassembled Remington, the barrel stays with the frame.  Not so with a Colt.  If an original Remington is encountered with a mis-matched serial number on the cylinder, there's a fair chance it was subject to cylinder swapping as Dire posts.  Pouches were made that accommodate 1 or two spare cylinders.  Civil War speed loaders.  Duplicate reproduction combinations are available and often encountered in use by Period cavalry re-enactors.

Anyone with any kind of understanding would realize that the whole reason for the 2nd Amendment was to enable citizens to have the type weapons needed to allow overthrow and control of an out of control central Government gone amuck.  The Government was always to have the military to protect it from foreign adversaries but the 2nd Amendment was citizen's protection against our own Government getting too powerful and power assuming to the point that it was out of control and where it got to a point where it would seek to eliminate weapons from the citizens.

Granted the founders never could have anticipated society as it is today and likewise they never could have comprehended the advanced and technological advances in weapons that has happened but you can still make applications today from their decisions then. 

No doubt that the founders meant that the ordinary citizens, of our nation, were to have the ability to have, possess, and purchase the exact same weapons that the military had at their disposal at that time.  Likewise the amendment was drafted to address a run away Government that at that time was unforeseen but was to be protected against.  I'm sure there was people that existed during those times that concerned others and that they felt were unstable it's just hard to know.  Still though the right to buy, purchase, possess, and use weapons, even military type weapons, was so essential to the founders and to freedom that they made it the 2nd Amendment only surpassed by Freedom of the press, of speech and of Religion.  If it (the amendment) is to be changed then it should be altered and changed in the same way that all other amendments are addressed and not just by Executive action or order.  But that's just my own 2-cents worth of opinion and as long as this response is maybe 10 cents worth.

budsfarm posted:
Stanky posted:

I'm sure the nekkid emperor will get around to assault muskets eventually!

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Just as a precaution, I got one.

Capable of launching a couple of ounces of 7.62 caliber projectiles in less than a second.

Not from a gun show or out of a van in Indiana.

Over the internet!  No background check!

I'm worried now I may have to retrofit it to make it a "smart gun."

My reproduction of an 1850's shotgun.

I guess you can duct tape a few Picatinny rails on it for optics, lasers, flashlights, and a coffee maker.

Stanky posted:
budsfarm posted:
Stanky posted:

I'm sure the nekkid emperor will get around to assault muskets eventually!

+++

Just as a precaution, I got one.

Capable of launching a couple of ounces of 7.62 caliber projectiles in less than a second.

Not from a gun show or out of a van in Indiana.

Over the internet!  No background check!

I'm worried now I may have to retrofit it to make it a "smart gun."

My reproduction of an 1850's shotgun.

I guess you can duct tape a few Picatinny rails on it for optics, lasers, flashlights, and a coffee maker.

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Like this?

 

http://ww2.rediscov.com/spring...886,DATABASE=objects

 

 

budsfarm posted:
Stanky posted:
budsfarm posted:
Stanky posted:

I'm sure the nekkid emperor will get around to assault muskets eventually!

+++

Just as a precaution, I got one.

Capable of launching a couple of ounces of 7.62 caliber projectiles in less than a second.

Not from a gun show or out of a van in Indiana.

Over the internet!  No background check!

I'm worried now I may have to retrofit it to make it a "smart gun."

My reproduction of an 1850's shotgun.

I guess you can duct tape a few Picatinny rails on it for optics, lasers, flashlights, and a coffee maker.

+++

Like this?

 

http://ww2.rediscov.com/spring...886,DATABASE=objects

 

 

You're part way to a cup of espresso with that setup.

Wanted to follow up with what I have read and heard is a more likely turn of events.  Cylinders were swapped.  There's physical evidence of that.  Pouches and spare cylinders existed.  When exactly when they may have been used is subject to conjecture.  What is unlikely a trooper could swap cylinders during a charge.  However, when his primary revolver ran out, he would grab another revolver, and another till his revolvers ran out.    Reason being, a loaded revolver is quicker to fire than one that needs to be loaded even if it does have speed loader assist.

My gr.gr.granddaddy served in the 11th Ala Cav Rgt, known as the bull pups and assigned as part of Forrest Escort.  He carried a brace of Colt Navies which I understand are in the possession of a distant cousin.

So the carte de visite depicting the Yankee trooper may be more in line with the truth than a gag.

Rick Revees "Confederate Cavalary Forrest Command" accurately depicts how a trooper would have carried his revolvers but I can't find a clearer reproduction of this print..

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May have had a couple more strapped to his horse.

As an aside, carrying capped & loaded spare cylinders can present a dangerous situation.  Everyone I've talked to including using them myself is to carry them loaded with powder and ball, but absent percussion caps.  Those were pressed on after the cylinder was mounted within the firearm.  The need for them to be uncapped would especially be true if they were stacked one on top of another, such as in  a sleeve.

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