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My wiener dog sneers, and she’s not racist. She knows all races, creeds, and sexual orientations accidentally drop food equally.
Gun registration = confiscation. Period.
This letter has a number of grammatical errors. Are you sure it is real?
Calling the grammar police.
Will they send out of work librarians to retrieve these overdues?
That guarantees authenticity.
I really would like the stats for the use in crimes in NY City by the Lever 39a Mountie!
Or any lever gun.
NO BOATING ACCIDENT JOKES.
Please.
Losing all your firearms in a boating incident is never funny, sir!
I’ll never recover from that time I left all of mine leaning against a tree while hunting.
BTW, has anyone contemplated opening a secure facility outside the city so that people have time to figure out what to do?
Is storing them upstate at your uncles house a transfer?
Man o man this just plain ugly.
What do want? Good grammar or good taste?
So, they’re going for the Fudds, after all. Who would have thunk it?
Tom
No one needs a deer rifle in NYC.
Theme from Cops- Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do? What you gonna do when they come for yours…..js….
So a bunch of highly collectable lever guns are high capacity now? Oh, but nobody is coming for our guns so this must be a hoax.
It has to be a great disappointment to the Democrats that their “we won’t take your hunting rifles” message has failed to convince gun owners of the Dems’ deep and abiding respect for the 2nd Amendment. (“…shall not be infringed? What’s that mean?”)
I know! Democrats should get the president, Barack Obama the Anointed, to stand up in front of the TV monitors, and reading carefully from the teleprompters, make the following promise: “If you like your current 2nd Amendment rights, you can keep them. Period.”
That should work – we all have a deep and abiding trust in the President.
Hey FUDDs still believe the government doesn’t want your gran-daddy’s Winchester or your 30-30??????????? Just my “evil” rifle that no one should own??????????
Yep, not a scary black gun in sight.
I hope you all have a high pain tolerance!
Again folks if you don’t like a law of the given land and cant change it.
MOVE
Im sounding like a broken record here.
I left NYC in 1989 when they started in with rifle registration.
I moved out of NYC it wasn’t a hard or difficult choice.
I left NY altogether when I had enough of handgun registration and a 30 day wait to purchase said same.
Those still stuck there can do the same or organize a bit of civil disobedience.
If I were still there my response would be try to take my guns……
Ill take someone else with me at the least and that maybe what it will come down to.
Cops take an oath just as the military does.
If they are willing to blindly enforce an unjust law.
They have no right to do it to me anymore then I do to them.
A dead body on one side or another might be whats needed to get the ball rolling.
You believe in whats right………or don’t.
Thank heaven all of those high capacity 22 cal killing spree rifles will be off the streets.
Wait, but I thought they only wanted those military-heavy-weapons-of-war-with-the-thing-that-goes-up-black guns that the Fudds don’t have any use for.
Great article. I share the disgust at the jerks who think it’s funny to hand a new shooter a “big boomer” firearm for their first try, and then go into yuckitup fits when he/she flinches. Start with an air-gun or a .22, and make their first range trip fun. For me, the whole point of having a non-shooter try out a gun is to enlist people on my side of the “keep and bear arms” debate – sort of an enlightened self-interest deal.
Kudos to you, Kristen, for being willing to learn effective self-defense after that prior crappy experience, and kudos to your then-fiancé for his help in the process.
What’s interesting is that so far, this has been primarily a bureaucratic exercise. No one’s life is in danger sending out these letters. I think that the police in NYC actually think that the vast majority of gun owners will quietly comply with the directives. What would be highly unexpected is if large numbers of gun owners tell 5-O to FO. My guess is that more notices will be sent and lawmakers will be confounded over the disobedience. I’m guessing here that NYPD is not prepared for large scale defiance. SWAT team no-knocks are a definite possibility, but I would think the police would be reluctant to do that on a large scale.
If I were a gun owner in NYC and had the ability to do it, I would temporarily (and quietly) move my guns out of my house to a secure location the police did not know about. Then I would patiently wait for the thugs. If they kicked down the door, searched the place and found nothing, then things could get interesting. There is always a reporter to be found who has an axe to grind with NYPD. If more than one or two no-knocks resulted in nothing to be found and the press reported the story, things could get mighty uncomfortable for the lawmakers and police. After all, NY residents might not like gun owners, but seeing someone on TV – possibly with kids who has been the victim of a no-knock that turned nothing up could start to sway public opinion. Even in NYC.
The other interesting thing is that owners of “assault weapons” in New York State are going to be watching this whole thing with great interest. This makes clear as crystal that if the NY Po-Po have the details on your gun, its awfully easy for registration to become confiscation.
Gov Cuomo wants “assault weapons” registered under the SAFE act. My guess is that this confiscation exercise is going to complicate his plans for the little banana republic that NY is becomming.
When you get to Idaho, be sure to stop in at Red’s Trading Post (redstradingpost.com) in Twin Falls, and Buckhorn Guns (buckhornguns.com) in Boise. If you wander off the beaten track southwest of Boise, try Shooter’s Guns and Ammo (shooterwsgunsandammo.com) in Kuna, Idaho. /End shameless Idaho plug/
Knowing supercilious, condescending and smug New Yorkers as well as I do, I’m sure they will line up like lemmings to surrender their
rightsguns. And the sheeple will cheer.In the 1870’s to the 1890’s America played “cowboys & indians”. Now it’s about time that America play “cowboys & liberals/progressives/socialists”.
If anyone is ‘bitterly clinging’ to anything, it’s OBAMA — bitterly clinging to the wreckage of his disastrous, socialist, bureaucratic Frankenstein called Obamacare — as the rest of the country watches in horror as the hideous, stitched-together monster of his struggles to come to life and consume us all in it’s wretched embrace.
“We just need more lightning Igor, more lightning! HaHaHaHaHaHaaaaa”
I got nothing. I stayed inside and avoided the crowds of insane human-cattle. Did some online ordering, if that counts. Got ammo.
So – how much did your health insurance go up?
A Lee Autoprime XR, 100rd bonus pack WWB 40S&W, and a reloading manual for 10mm/40S&W. Picked up while birthday shopping for my wife.
Curley: “I’m tryin’ to plink but nuttin’ happens!”
A case of 9mm from The Armory (best prices on the east coast) and NOTHING from Buds Gunshop (worst gunshop on the east coast.)
I think an important aspect of this story is how the men in her life unintentionally contributed to her fear of guns by treating shooting as a masculine activity. It is up to us to make sure the women in our lives have the opportunity to learn how to shoot safely, and in a manner that is appropriate for them.
I hate to throw a wrench in the works of this matrimonial love story, but ……..which way does your girlfriend VOTE?
I don’t care how many anodized 9mms your lady owns, and neither does anyone in DC.Votes talk, and BS walks.If she owns 100 guns, its for naught if she decides for civil disarmament at the ballot box.
We need to move past how many guns people own.The question we need to ask is will someone VOTE for the 2nd Amendment. For an example of a state populated by millions of gun owners , I give you California.Plenty of guns are bought and legally sold there.Yet look at their laws.
Only around 20 percent of Californians own guns, so even though the numbers may be high, keep in mind that the total population of California is also high. So in actuality, the vast majority of voters there do not own guns and vote that way, thus outnumbering those that do.
Over 50% of marriages end up in divorce. I give this one 2 years on the outside.
“She grew up in New Hampshire where shooting guns wasn’t even a consideration, let alone a hobby.” Maybe in her house.
Might I point out that silencers are mandatory in Finland? And that they repelled the Soviet Union?
Not that they are anything like that today. I think the once-iron-headed Finns have been tamed by the cell phone.
Just like John’s story I learned from my time at krtraining about proper gun fit. I have short stubby fingers and glocks are just not for me. I shot and handled Karl’s (of krtraining.com) g19 with a grip reduction to figure this out and soon was in the market for an M&P. After acquiring an M&P 9FS in May and using it in competition I decided to upgrade to an M&P pro 9L 2 weeks ago. I cleaned and lubed it and shot it the next day. I was horribly disappointed at how badly it shot. It consistently shot left of point of aim and to prove to myself that it wasn’t my shooting, I bench rested it and shot my FS right after to verify. I was ready to call S&W that night but once I inspected the gun I realized that BOTH the front and rear sights were completely off. I used a vice/nylon hammer to adjust the sights, verified with a laser boresighter and it shot like a dream the next day. I’ve put almost 300 rounds through it now and can’t be happier with the upgrade. The trigger pull on the pro is definitely much lighter than the FS but the FS has a much better reset. I do have an apex kit just sitting around and might install the sear as others have suggested here.
I bought the APEX kit prior to obtaining the FS with the intent to replace the FS trigger but was shocked to find out that the new M&P’s manufactured in 2013 already have an excellent trigger and very audible reset so I decided to keep the stock trigger.
…are there really people out there who think Beck isn’t a wanker?
Of course!
I think he’s a twatwaffle.
I try to listen to most of the popular broadcasters.
Since most low information voters tend to listen to these folks, it helps to know who leans which way.
Tho I can only stand a few minutes of the left.
Know the enemy…
Dear government employee with a piece of costume jewelry,
You are a civilian, not a member of the military. You should not be allowed to carry any thing but a radio and a whistle. If you need a firearm, ask a citizen for aid. You are more dangerous to the average citizen than any gang banger.
Sincerely,
An Honest Tax Paying Citizen
Sheriff Timothy Howard of Erie County, New York. “Do you want law enforcement people that will say, ‘I will do this if I’m told to do it, even if I know it’s wrong.’?” . . .
Because there’s a different kind? Please do find him/her, they’ve been held-back, demoted, slow back-upped, or worse. I love the grandstanding, too bad there’s never any action to back it.