Posted on 12/12/2007 2:15:35 PM PST by CHICAGOFARMER
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own
Government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million
Dollars. The first year results are now in:
List of 7 items: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent Australia-wide, armed
Robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
Yup! LOL!
My hat's off to you for that kind of shooting.
My recipe goes through a Steyr Scout, and a Ruger M77 RSI. It's a very accurate load, but too slow a propellent for an M1A.
Respects to the Corps from an old Navy airdale.
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You would think these nitwits would at least wait until the court hears the DC ban.
Really? Too bad there was no opposing council, not even an amicus brief, to point that out. Of course since the case was directly appealed, interested parties, like the NRA, might not have even heard about the case in time to file such a brief.
I just took a quick at the current form of the NFA, and there is no *specific* exemption for the military, there is a *general* one for any US government agency, and other exemptions for state and local government agencies.
Not if they're afraid it will be overturned. I'm guessing they want to get this passed and as many guns collected and as many gun owners who don't want to hand them over arrested as possible while they still can.
That's just sick. Why shouldn't the kids be able to take part in a activity, with their grandmother, that has been endorsed by no less than Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declamation of Independence, former Ambassador to France Third President of these United States, and founder of the University of Virginia?
From Letter to Peter Carr, his nephew.
In order to assure a certain progress in this reading, consider what hours you have free from the school and the exercises of the school. Give about two of them, every day, to exercise; for health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. Never think of taking a book with you. The object of walking is to relax the mind.
I'd suggest an "Equal protection argument". Of course child custody courts seem less bound by the Constitution than most other sorts.
Art IV,Section. 2, Constitution of the United States.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
IOW, when in Texas, Illinois citizens have the rights of Texans. And that includes the right to go shooting with your Grannie, or gramps as the case may be.
Illinois and Chicago are just evil corrupt f*** up places. Be glad to get out of here.
Well, if they don't and that case goes the way the Constitution says it must, then maybe Chicago's laws should be the first test of wether a city or state can infringe upon the right of the people which the federal government may not. A 14th amendment "incorporation" case, or possibly even go back the original understanding of "priveleges and immunities of citzens of the United States" under the 14th amendment, which the immunity from having one's RKBA infringed upon is certainly one.
This is being pushed by someone called “Billy Beavers”?
And the bad guys.
Oh, no.
The ban will apply to bad guys, too.
< /mindless liberal blather>
And that’s why I did not write that the law *specifically* exempted the military from the NFA tax provision.
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