Great. We are under seige by terrorists and we are going to attck a problem that doesn't exist.

bang_list bump!

There will be NO new regulation of firearm production allowed, especially in this time of war!

The government should begin issuing training programs nationally, for arms, at the taxpayer expense!

Thank you for the heads up...

Leftists are such anti-American idiots!

If they succeed in banning the .50, the big belted magnums will be next. This must NOT be allowed to happen.

>Leftists are such anti-American idiots!

Funny how in times of crisis people like the Brady freaks show their true colors.

Next the Brady freaks will be saying that lack of gun control is the reason the Tali-go-booms treat women so inhumanely. Wonder how Sara would fair over in Afganistan? Not pretty I would bet.

snooker

John L. Plaster, a retired Army major who authored The Ultimate Sniper and said he served three tours running covert operations during the Vietnam War, said ''any weapon is a potential terrorist weapon.

I graduated from the Infantry Officer Basic Course with this guy in the Fall of 1975.

I'm pretty sure that:

(1) .50 caliber rifles are responsible for millions of childhood deaths in the US alone each year and the number has doubled each year since 1950.

(2) Thousdands of concealed carry .50 caliber rifles are brought into schools across American each day.

(3) .50 caliber rifles are responsible for the growth of violent crime in American.

(4) It was actually a .50 caliber rifle round that brought down the second World Trade Center tower.

(5) Sinister American business men are arming children across the world with .50 caliber rifles to boost sales.

(6) A .50 caliber rifle caused Sarah Brady's cancer.

Opps, wrong forum. Those "facts" should have gone into a post on DemocraticUnderground.

This latest move makes me want to go out and buy a Barrett. I don't need one and am not interested in shooting one, but these lying bastards just piss me off!

You forgot:

"Even though the weapon is 5 feet long and weighs 30 pounds, it folds down to the size of a credit card and can be concealed in a wallet, perfect for bringing on planes and into hospital nurseries, where its single shot fully automatic nuclear Ebola plague virus 155mm cartridges can vaporize an entire city block."

Hey, with it's tactical nuclear round, now I am being to see the need for one!

Even though the weapon is 5 feet long and weighs 30 pounds, it folds down to the size of a credit card and can be concealed in a wallet, perfect for bringing on planes and into hospital nurseries, where its single shot fully automatic nuclear Ebola plague virus 155mm cartridges can vaporize an entire city block."

Thanks for pointing out that omission. Sometimes I take it for granted that everyone knows the basics about .50 caliber weapons, and that's just not true.

Those of us who grew up in the country and used a .50 caliber for plinking and pest control forget that our city friends may not have shared that experience. Those of us who have wiped out the neighbor's farm with an errant round sometimes assume others have the same knowledge base.

Living in a big-gun deprived country, there has always been at least one thing tempting me to cross the Atlantic (staying in the army was however too much trouble for this). Now don't take away this incentive! :)

''When the Iraqis got hit with that round, they said they felt they got hit with a rocket, because it is designed
to penetrate and then explode and put fragments and incendiary particles inside whatever it hits,''
Diaz(...a former National Guard arms specialist and a senior policy analyst for the Violence Policy Center...) said.

As a "former US Army arms specialist" I can say that this guy is simply being a "terror talk" mouthpiece for the PC groups.
A slapshot round is designed to penetrate but it does not "explode" (although it will be coming apart as it goes through).
Putting "fragments" into the target is what is supposed to happen.
Incendiary rounds are, indeed, supposed to put "incendiary particles" on target.
(Duh!)

''It's a relatively low-tech weapon that you can leverage into potentially catastrophic and high-casualty scenarios.
It does not take an enormous amount of imagination. And it can get real scary real fast.''

This clown knows all the buzz words.
Sounds like a room temp IQ.

"The institute isn't calling for a ban on the weapons, only for stricter regulation of their sale."

Bottom line:
They are moving consistantly, one step at a time.

we are going to attck a problem that doesn't exist.

Ahhh,but the real terror here is the terror in the gun control groups that their funding will decrease now that we are at war.

I graduated from the Infantry Officer Basic Course with this guy in the Fall of 1975.

Really? What rank was he? He was a buck sgt in 1969.

Those of us who grew up in the country and used a .50 caliber for plinking and pest control...

Goodbye prairie dog city?