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Not one but I might get one as I hear they are SUPER EFFECTIVE

Pretty tasteless timing op. Stay classy.

Get her a pink one: http://www.sharppointythings.com/rifles.php

I'm a sword collector & do a little bow hunting from time to time. I use a Martin Hunter One Piece Recurve 62", Easton XX75 Hunter Arrows with Tusker Concorde 190gr Broadheads.

First, most of the well informed patriots don't like the NRA. The reason is, the NRA compromises way too much. Also, the NRA has a bit of a monopoly. Too many gun ranges require an NRA membership. Those that do not do that, get no help or defense from the NRA, and that is in spite of the fact that just about ALL gun clubs support the NRA in some way. The NRA also picks and chooses cases to defend. If the case is not mainstream enough, they ignore it.


I won't say what guns I have, though I don't have a lot. I know too many people with a lot of guns who don't know how to shoot them. I have a few guns, but I know how to use them. I have more in my possession that I keep for others. Some I might buy, but really, from a collectors view there is no such thing as "too many guns" but from my personal station in life, don't have a lot of space. Half of the total mass of "gun stuff" is reloading equipment for making my own ammo, much of which ends up being used to train other people.


I will say that none of my guns were involved in the Sandy Hook Shooting. None of them have attempted to escape from their secure lockers either. Though there is a Taurus that looks like it's plotting something, and it's not even mine.


Finally, if it's a shotgun you want, I must say this one appears rather epic. I normally don't get a hard-on for guns, but when I do, it's something like that. It looks like something out of HALO, but I would like to see if this is a jamomatic before I put 800 dollars on the counter. New approaches to gun design like that come with a host of issues.


I wan to remind those of you in the vassal states that real liberty is not needing your acceptance. Why do we have guns? Because we can, that's why. No excuses needed. If you don't like that, well I'm not sorry. A European state that has already been robbed, diminished by two wars, and now the domain of oligarchs might boast that they get by without guns, but you are for the most part like a poor man in the eyes of a mugger. Are your borders being left open for criminals to cross freely and raise the crime stats while illegal workers drive down wages? Ours are. Do you have a underclass targeted for destruction through mass media conditioning and used to boost the crime stats and turn cities into war zones? We do. Does your government run illegal narcotics while maintaining a prison-industrial complex? Ours does. The USDOJ even ran guns to Mexico to side with drug cartels and blame the resulting violence on the second amendment. Does your country have social engineers and Big Pharma screwing people up? Ours does.

So yeah a (house)broken Englishman can live in his little flat with his little job and nothing has really changed since the days of Charles Dickens, and he is happy with that. So what. Thomas Jefferson warned about that. (see reference in Paragraph 7)

America is the golden goose: the people still have a lot of wealth, and the collectivists trying to change that, first by fiat and then by force when that fails, are here. A robber does not go back to a house he already cleaned out (Europe). While the Unites States is going broke from endless unjust wars, the warfare state, and the welfare state, the people still have some wealth accumulated and a drive to restore it if given the chance. We don't want to be like Mexico where you are either very rich or very poor, or like most nations of Europe that appears to have 20-30 percent constant unemployment (worse for the young). Things can be better than that, we have the memories of our forbears still. We know who is against that, and we know what they are trying to do. Disarming us in one of their goals.

Rarely if ever go to actualy 'rifle ranges' - by which I mean indoor establishments that charge an entry fee, etc.
Most 'ranges' up here tend to just be a row of stands with a gravel backstop....or just a nearby gravel pit.

My introduction to the NRA was when I was in highschool - the NRA was quite active in our school's competitive shooting team, promoting good ownership habits and safety.

When I was in 9th grade, I remember the NRA volunteer/coach showing up and giving a stirring talk about the importance of the 2nd Amendment...as the massacre of Tiananmen square had just occurred and the images of Communist tanks and soldiers massacring unarmed Chinese students were quite fresh in our memory.

That was just one man, hardly representative of the entire organization, but I came away with a strong respect for them at an early age. To this end....they understand that working with young folk is critical.

Decades ago, I think NRA may have been more willing to make concessions - willing to throw 'some' gun owners under the bus to protect 'sportsmen' - but I believe in the 90's they eventually came around and understand that the leftists/socialists/activists they were making concessions to - were people who will simply not be happy until everyone is disarmed.

Increasing gun control was no longer viewed as an inevitable rising tide - but a force that could be beaten and discredited. And today, they are in full retreat, clinging to unreasonable bans in places like Chicago and Washington DC.

I have a hard time faulting them. Without them fighting the battles - today, I'd likely be considered a 'criminal' simply for exercising my 2nd Amendment rights.

I have never owned a gun, although I have shot many guns for qualifications and carried for duty. I am pro gun rights and pro gun education, not that I am going to derail this into a political thread, just giving a bit of a backstory on my conundrum of not being able to decide
a) which is the best gun for me
b) how to justify spending upwards of $1000 on a gun I will never have time to take out to the range

This has plagued me for over a decade, so I haven't gotten around to buying one

Sorry about that whole non-American thing, but try to avoid personal attacks and strange fascist comparisons. The 'spray a kindergarden' thing was particularly unwelcome. That is, after your eventual forum ban.

Its pretty apparent you are not a gun owner, so your only purpose here is to stir people up. If the German government decided that its citizens were not collectively responsible enough to own firearms, I'll leave that up to the Germans to decide.

They, after all, are uniquely positioned to understand all the benefits that spring from a disarmed population and a heavily armed police state.

This thread, on the other hand, is simply here to learn about the types of people that make up the EVE community. That includes hunters, sportsmen and gun owners. Eve is a big game. We can't ALL be pasty-white basement dwellers and latte sipping urban metrosexuals.

This thread is now locked as it has gotten far out of hand and no amount of cleaning it will fix that, I see. Please remember that when posting, you should follow all the rules that have been laid out. They are there for a reason. Thank you.