Guns Banned?

[creewoman]

I cannot imagine how Griz would have dispatched the 2 pigs he slaughtered the other day...with a knife?Much suffering it would bring the poor critter.
Many times we hace had to use  different calibers of guns for different things throughout the years.Animals that stalked my little girl and killed my dog and  30 plus chickens.Living where we do we have them for self-protection,(the law takes forever to get here).We have also had to end the suffering of an animal a time or 2,without something what would we do?Hit it in the head with a rock and hope we killed it?
The saying say "Outlaw guns and then only criminals will have guns".Stricter application for permits required safety classes locked cabinets when children are residing there.Wait a Minute! Why weren't her Guns in a locked cabinet?she failed her son greatly and indirectly caused the life of the children to be lost.She is guilty also,she had to have known better.If my child had a problem I would know and seek help.

[specialmom]

I honestly think that is why gun owners are so up in arms right now.  They fear that our little democratic republic is moving in the direction of placing restrictions on gun ownership.  The general public that once maybe didn't care or get involved in the issue of gun laws is now noticing and asking for stricter laws and bans.  What if that majority goes in the direction of banning semi automatic and automatic weapons?  

[brice1967]

Well, with the way our little democratic republic works is... majority rules.

[Barb135]

"As for going to what the "founding fathers" thought....?  They also thought slavery was a wonderful idea."   Not all of them

[brice1967]

hrsepwrguy is right... An AR can be either semi or fully automatic.  

I have friends that own "fully auto" weapons and they are far from rich.  Straight up the gut, middle class citizens, just like you or I.  You'd never know they had them unless you went shooting with them.  And guess what, their fully automatic guns aren't killing anyone.

As for going to what the "founding fathers" thought....?  They also thought slavery was a wonderful idea.

[hrsepwrguy]

Civilian AR's are semi-auto, 1 trigger pull for 1 shot and the gun automatically reloads the next shot which requires another trigger pull.

Full auto weapons (1 trigger pull multiple shots) are legal in some states with a special license

[MrsPincince]

There isn't much difference between a fully automatic M-16 machine gun and the semi-automatic AR-15 rifle.

Both shoot the same, high-powered .223-caliber ammo and can be loaded with large-capacity magazines of 30 rounds or more. Except for different internal workings that allow the fully auto mode in the M-16, they're the same gun.

The semi-automatic version isn't much less lethal, either -- that much is made clear by the Army's decision to use M-16s that fire semi-automatically in up to three-round bursts, rather than full-autos. Semi-auto fire can be more accurate than "spraying," the Army found.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/01/fully-auto_vs_semi-auto_the_di.php

"An AR is semi-auto or auto?"

Semi-Auto...

"I THOUGHT that machine guns were still illegal,"

They are HEAVILY restricted...

Here is another excerpt from the link above:

One reason fully automatic weapons don't get used in crimes is because restrictions have taken them out of the hands of all but a few rich people. The only machine guns that can be sold legally to civilians in the United States were made before 1986. About 125,000 "transferable" full-autos exist in the country, Mangan says.