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The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper Or, “Who Needs an AR-15 Anyway?”
The Medium ^ | 4/20/2018 | BJ Campbell

Posted on 12/03/2019 7:05:11 AM PST by infool7

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1 posted on 12/03/2019 7:05:11 AM PST by infool7
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To: infool7
I remember that story from a couple weeks ago about a home invastion where the thugs were pistol whipping this woman's husband. She grabbed the AR-15 and took out ALL three of them. She killed all three of the thugs.
2 posted on 12/03/2019 7:10:37 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land,)
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To: infool7

It’s not the Bill of Needs.


3 posted on 12/03/2019 7:11:58 AM PST by real saxophonist (Never let Sean Connery teach your dog to Sit!)
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I don’t have an AR-15; I have a Ruger 556. Saying AR-15 is like saying you have a car.


4 posted on 12/03/2019 7:12:40 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: infool7

“flooding, which is my field”

Then you should know better!


5 posted on 12/03/2019 7:14:31 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: SkyDancer
Saying AR-15 is like saying you have a car.

More like saying you have a pickup truck, as opposed to a Ram, Ford, Chevy, GMC, or Toyota pickup truck.

Technically, I have an Anderson Manufacturing AM-15, since that is the model designation of the stripped lower that I built my MSR upon.

The rest is Palmetto State Armory.

6 posted on 12/03/2019 7:17:06 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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> There’s the “you can’t fight the army with small arms” bucket,

Were it not practically illegal to get larger arms, that assertion would be moot.


7 posted on 12/03/2019 7:21:05 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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I must take issue with the notion that the Civil War was an effort to overthrow the US government. It was an effort of several states to secede from the union.


8 posted on 12/03/2019 7:30:09 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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He completely left out Islam.

Islam has been a “religion” of conquest and slavery, murder and mayhem since its founding by Mad Mo.
Stupidly, we have allowed millions to come here and colonize our country.
When they have sufficient numbers they take over, look around the world.


9 posted on 12/03/2019 7:31:53 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Siaga 308, much better.


10 posted on 12/03/2019 7:32:04 AM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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No. It was a rejection by southern states of the government of the United States. That’s why they called their new country the Confederate States of America.

The author is exactly right.


11 posted on 12/03/2019 7:37:36 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
I think you may be thinking of this story from last month

Pregnant Florida woman uses AR-15 to fend off burglars attacking her family

A Florida woman who was eight-months pregnant and came out wielding an AR-15 rifle reportedly saved her husband and pre-teen daughter last week from a pair of violent intruders who'd broken into the family's home — with the gun-toting matriarch fatally striking one of the men, who was later found dead in a nearby ditch.

Jeremy King was at his home in Lithia, 25 miles southeast of Tampa, at 9 p.m. Wednesday night when two armed men, wearing masks and hoods, broke inside.

You can file this one under "Don't EVER mess with Mama"

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12 posted on 12/03/2019 7:58:29 AM PST by infool7 (When you have the Lord, nothing else is important and everything is fascinating!)
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He completely left out Islam.

Insight and comments like this are

exactly the reason why I posted this article

for discussion here at FR.

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13 posted on 12/03/2019 8:01:27 AM PST by infool7 (When you have the Lord, nothing else is important and everything is fascinating!)
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To: Yo-Yo
More like saying you have a pickup truck, as opposed to a Ram, Ford, Chevy, GMC, or Toyota pickup truck.

I agree. We have a variety of semi-automatic rifles with magazines. I suppose to the average person unfamiliar with firearms that they all look similar.

We don't own any AR-15 style rifles. .223 projectiles reach such a high muzzle velocity that they need a “jacketed” bullet and it is very difficult to make those at home yourself.

I admit to having prepper type tendencies. we have several hundred pounds of lead tire weights. After I heat treat the bullets that I cast myself out of them, they can be seated in fully charged cartridges in an AK-47 style rifle. I can also use cast bullets in partially charged .308 cartridges, and even partially charged 7.62 x 54 cartridges. These bullets have a lower muzzle velocity, but have excellent knock down power because they weigh several times more than a .223 projectile.

The tire weights can be cast into a wide variety of projectiles, from pistol bullets, to shotgun slugs and buckshot, to rifle bullets. We live in a liberal state that is likely to tax the hell out of ammo in the future. Assembling my own cartridges is insurance mostly against that.

14 posted on 12/03/2019 8:02:25 AM PST by fireman15
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15 posted on 12/03/2019 8:09:42 AM PST by real saxophonist (Never let Sean Connery teach your dog to Sit!)
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16 posted on 12/03/2019 8:09:48 AM PST by infool7 (When you have the Lord, nothing else is important and everything is fascinating!)
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So that’s another canary in the coal mine for the tin foil hat right winger — you have a class of people who are vehemently demanding confiscation of rifles in the public sphere, while some of them are secretly building underground fortresses in the private sphere.

This is why it is very important to list out the times when the commies have demanded gun confiscation

They try to pretend this is all a conspiracy theory when they have been demanding this all along.

The left has called for gun confiscation over 75 times – Beto version 2019 https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3797787/posts

17 posted on 12/03/2019 8:10:30 AM PST by Hustoon71
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18 posted on 12/03/2019 8:13:03 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: real saxophonist

AR-15 has become the Kleenex of rifles

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19 posted on 12/03/2019 8:13:53 AM PST by infool7 (When you have the Lord, nothing else is important and everything is fascinating!)
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To: Hustoon71
This is why it is very important to list out the times when the commies have demanded gun confiscation

In no instance has it worked out well for those that disarmed.

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20 posted on 12/03/2019 8:21:05 AM PST by infool7 (When you have the Lord, nothing else is important and everything is fascinating!)
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