Posted on 03/07/2006 5:09:58 AM PST by tcostell
I don't see any qualifications for "illegal" weapons in the Second Amendment. There are no such things.
Fatboy, I know where you're coming from - I lived in NJ for about 38 of my 40 years before leaving 5 years ago for TX. Now I can carry a .45, buy a handgun as fast as the paperwork can be prepared, own whatever rifle and however many magazines of whatever capacity I'd like. Hell, I can even buy full autos if I had enough bucks to pony up for them. I didn't leave NJ because of guns, but let's just say that guns didn't appear on my list of "reasons to stay in NJ" list.
I used to go with a friend to gun shows in PA after Fascist Florio rammed the AWB through the legislature. I got a real kick out of the "America starts here" signs that PA Gov. Casey had put up. I also bought lots of verboten mags for my guns, just as a way of giving Florio the finger. Several years later, I got married, and about 1 1/2 years after that we left for TX. As we passed into Delaware on the DWB, I turned to my wife and casually mentioned that "now you won't have to worry about bailing me out of jail." After picking her eyeballs off of the floor, she asked me why, and I explained the magazine law. She then asked me how many I had, and I said, "Oh, about 200 years in Rahway worth, and there sitting 18 inches behind our butts." Silence. Then she said, "They don't have laws like that in Texas, do they?" I said, "No, Texas is in America."
Having lived here for 5 years, and seeing how bad it truly is getting in NJ, I can honestly say that I will never go back there to live - because that would be almost like moving from East Germany to West Germany, staying awhile, and then deciding to go back to East Germany. Insane I'm not.
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