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Libertarian VP Candidate Video; Rifles are "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Gun Watch ^ | 7 August, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 08/16/2016 5:08:54 AM PDT by marktwain

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To: Gaffer

Sounds like fun but I think I’ll stick with those rockets powered by baking soda and vinegar.


61 posted on 08/16/2016 6:50:46 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: Gaffer

One time a friend of mine tried to warm up beans with a pressure cooker. I do NOT advise it. Dangerous. And big mess on the ceiling.


62 posted on 08/16/2016 6:52:32 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Pressure cookers have relief valves built in.


63 posted on 08/16/2016 6:53:36 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

‘Actually, a semi-auto shotgun is good enough.’

I should hope so for home defense! But I did read about a fully automatic shotgun used by the military. Loaded with a drum if I remember correctly.


64 posted on 08/16/2016 6:54:47 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: Gaffer

Only thing, I thought that shotguns violate the Geneva Convention. So maybe mercenaries? Dunno.


65 posted on 08/16/2016 6:55:55 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: marktwain

Libertarians. Not only wrong for America, just wrong.

“The Libertarian Party... helping to elect democrats since 1972.”


66 posted on 08/16/2016 6:56:16 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: Gaffer

I saw the mess. The cap blew off like a bullet.

And the Boston Marathon Bombers used a pressure cooker too.

[But I was trying to keep it ‘light’.]


67 posted on 08/16/2016 6:57:40 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

I have an 8-9 shot semi from Mossberg. Frankly, I can’t see how an automatic version would be any good especially when recovering the aim from the first shot.


68 posted on 08/16/2016 6:58:58 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Don’t doubt that but it shouldn’t have happened with your friends beans.


69 posted on 08/16/2016 7:00:40 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Celerity

The French Revolutionary mantra: liberte’, egalite’, fraternite’; spawned Libertarianism. As such, it is a relatively modernist fad, in contrast to Principled Conservatism; which grew from the Greece of Antiquity from the likes of Aristotle, Pericles, Solon, Plato; among many others.
Does anyone seriously believe that a lack of freedom is the root cause of the very severe malaise that afflicts us as a nation?


70 posted on 08/16/2016 7:00:51 AM PDT by Arrian ('Girls)
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To: Gaffer

Powders used back in mining days definetly yes. But in a gun, todays modern powders only burn at an incredibly fast rate. It takes an awful lot of continuous “push” for a projectile to be sent out of a long barrel. Theory is this. The heavier the projectile and the longer the barrel, the more push is required for it to make it to the muzzle. All powders burn at different rates for this reason.


71 posted on 08/16/2016 7:13:57 AM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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To: OldMissileer

Damn,,,, I forgot about that part. I stand corrected.


72 posted on 08/16/2016 7:16:13 AM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

“There are rifles that can work like machine guns if a pin is pulled.”

Uh, no.

The only legal ones that (or similar trivial modification) might work for result in an uncontrolled complete mag dump: pull trigger, keeps firing until empty - extremely stupid dangerous.

Any guns which sanely handle what you claim are illegal.

And what the idiot in the lead post claims amounts to converting an M1903 bolt action rifle with fixed magazine, to a detachable magazine M16 (invented half a century later) machine gun, by merely pulling a pin. That’s stupid. The conversion is absurd; seriously, it’s easier to convert a VW Bug to a machine gun.


73 posted on 08/16/2016 7:23:25 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Gaffer

Yeah, but maybe we’re thinking ‘home defense’ while the leftists are worried about ‘drive-by’ shootings. One quick burst and they floor it.

Funny thing though. Gasoline is a much deadlier weapon than guns and wickedly versitile. Especially when a household chemical is added, and that knowledge is out there. The public could google it, not that I’ll make it easier for anyone.

And one guy turned his truck into a ‘ramming tank’. He tore up an entire town before they could stop him.

But let’s take guns away from law-abiding people.


74 posted on 08/16/2016 7:39:51 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: ctdonath2

I agree on all points.

There are a lot of things that could be converted into deadly weapons or delivery systems. Fear of law abiding people owning guns is irrational and might indicate clinical paranoia.


75 posted on 08/16/2016 7:44:40 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

“What the heck is going on with the Libertarian Party?”

From the two commies that they are running for pres and VP, I think it’s pretty obvious that at the national level the libertarian party are just communists.


76 posted on 08/16/2016 7:56:46 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: marktwain

I thought Libertarians were supposed to be pro-freedom and not Statists?


77 posted on 08/16/2016 9:03:30 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obamca loves America)
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To: marktwain

Mass destruction? What a dope.


78 posted on 08/16/2016 10:03:56 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: marktwain

What a joke the LP has become!


79 posted on 08/16/2016 10:31:19 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: ctdonath2

...what the idiot in the lead post claims amounts to converting an M1903 bolt action rifle with fixed magazine, to a detachable magazine M16... machine gun, by removing a pin....

That’s what it sounded like.


80 posted on 08/16/2016 3:18:50 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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