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New round in Gun Issue
Newsday .com ^ | 3/4/04 | Paul Vitello

Posted on 03/08/2004 11:22:32 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants

Edited on 03/09/2004 6:26:26 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Pick up the Yellow Pages and go to "Guns." Call the first gun store you find. Ask what you'll need to purchase a semi-automatic military-style sniper rifle like the one used by John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo to kill 10 people during their 2002 Washington, D.C.-area murder spree.

"You have a driver's license?" said the man at the Long Island store I called yesterday to ask about buying the assault rifle known as the Bushmaster XM-15.

"Sure," I said, "but what else do I need to bring?"

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antigun; assaultweapon; bang; banglist; freedomhater; guns
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There is so much wrong with this article that I don't know where to begin. Our military's standard issue is the AK-47? And it is "highly accurate" from a half-mile? And that Malvo an Mohammed were shooting from 500 yards?

And even worse is that the editor and "fact checker" were even more ignorant than the writer!

1 posted on 03/08/2004 11:22:32 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Joe Brower; Travis McGee; Squantos
You guys just have to see the kind of pap the left is feeding the public.
2 posted on 03/08/2004 11:23:26 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Barf bump.
3 posted on 03/08/2004 11:25:26 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Lazamataz; B4Ranch; Eaker
1700 yard ping.
4 posted on 03/08/2004 11:27:54 AM PST by glock rocks (molon labe)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Ask what you'll need to purchase a semi-automatic military-style sniper rifle like the one used by John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo to kill 10 people during their 2002 Washington, D.C.-area murder spree.

I wanna call up my local car dealership & ask what I need to bring in order to purchase a nice big car, you know just like the one that old man in Californina used to run down & kill 10 people in that open air market?

5 posted on 03/08/2004 11:27:58 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
So so wrong.

The AR-15 Bushmaster could never be mistaken for an AK-47. It's like saying the F-16 is a knockoff of the Japanese Zero.

And if you can kill someone from 900 yards with an AK then you must be firing straight down on them from a 900 yard high cliff.
6 posted on 03/08/2004 11:28:11 AM PST by Bogey78O (The Democrats promised jobs but all they gave you was gay marriage- AppyPappy)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
This article is so bad it must be a joke!
7 posted on 03/08/2004 11:29:45 AM PST by jsraggmann
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To: jsraggmann
I wish it was. But THIS is what passes for factual reporting on the left!
8 posted on 03/08/2004 11:30:48 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"Our military's standard issue is the AK-47?"

The author probably means that his army is equipped with AK-47's.

9 posted on 03/08/2004 11:31:11 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: Blood of Tyrants
o brother what bunch of baloney
10 posted on 03/08/2004 11:32:36 AM PST by ezo4
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"Nothing else," said the man. "Just money."

I see you are not familar with the Bill of Rights. In fact, I have a hunch you are not even familar with what a right is.

11 posted on 03/08/2004 11:32:45 AM PST by MosesKnows
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Like hearing a 3 year old give a lecture on superstring theory.

Though less funny, cause these people are dangerous about our rights.
12 posted on 03/08/2004 11:32:48 AM PST by Monty22
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Our military's standard issue is the AK-47?

Don't forget, this is a "journalist"; our armed forces are not the same as his. His "our" is the PRC or NK army.

13 posted on 03/08/2004 11:33:17 AM PST by JimRed (Fight election fraud! Volunteer as a local poll watcher, challenger or district official.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; All
Hundreds of court cases have set the precedent that the police do not have a responsibility to protect an individual. But society as a whole. This was established to remove the burden of law suits based on the failures of police officers to protect the citizenry. If the Government does not take responsibility for protecting its citizens on an individual level. Then it is criminal to deny the rights of individuals to protect themselves.

Furthermore, liberals don't want the American people armed when their communist coup d'état is achieved.
14 posted on 03/08/2004 11:33:33 AM PST by freebacon
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Typical unfounded scare tactics. FWIW, I went to a gun show a few weeks ago and bought a rifle. The guy turned out to be a licensed dealer. I filled out the usual federal forms and noted that the social security number is now optional. The guy took the form and my driver's license and went off to a phone. In about five minutes he was back with the approval.

The antis would have you believe that gun shows are weapons bazaars for terrorists. Not true. Not to mention it's common knowledge, at least for those who know the truth, they're cruised by the ATF.

15 posted on 03/08/2004 11:33:43 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: Blood of Tyrants
This was published? Bushmaster = AK-47? Bushmaster deadly at almost 900 yards? I used to shoot 40 of 40 in the Army and I don't think I could do that with an M-16.

Come to think of it, Malvo was an idiot for having that be his weapon of choice for a sniper rifle. He could have done much better with a cheap 30.06.
16 posted on 03/08/2004 11:35:38 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"You have a driver's license?" said the man at the Long Island store I called yesterday to ask about buying the assault rifle known as the Bushmaster XM-15.

"Sure," I said, "but what else do I need to bring?"

I was thinking paperwork - perhaps to verify my clean criminal record, my relative sanity, the lack of any documented connections between myself and al-Qaida.

Uh, dude, the Brady background check covers that part - you know, the process that you anti-gunners demanded a few years back. Now you pretend it doesn't even exist. But, then again, what else can you expect from a nitwit who believes that the AK-47 is the military's standard rifle?

17 posted on 03/08/2004 11:36:01 AM PST by dirtboy (Howard, we hardly knew ye. Not that we're complaining, mind you...)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Wow...this might be the dumbest article I've ever read.
18 posted on 03/08/2004 11:37:28 AM PST by GETMAIN
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To: Blood of Tyrants; *bang_list

Boy o boy, Joseph Goebbels has nothing on this guy.

19 posted on 03/08/2004 11:37:34 AM PST by Joe Brower (The Constitution defines Conservatism.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The Bushmaster, a version of the military's standard AK-47 rifle, was the kind of gun they had in mind: highly accurate, extremely deadly from almost a half-mile away.

There's half a mile between this guys brain and his head. And the network connection is extremely lousy.

20 posted on 03/08/2004 11:38:06 AM PST by DonaldDuke
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