Posted on 12/20/2012 6:39:41 AM PST by marktwain
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, announced it will not be pulling the type of weapon used in the Newtown school massacre off its shelves, while another major retailer announced it would.
Walmart confirmed Tuesday that it does sell the Bushmaster Sporting Rifle at its stores and plans to continue to do so.
"We have made no changes to the assortment of guns we sell in our stores," Walmart spokesperson Kory Lundberg said in a written statement.
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I wouldn’t have bought a gun at Dicks anyway. Their specialty is shoes as far as I’m concerned. You talk to them about anything else and they don’t have a clue.
The best dealers specialize in guns. I’ve got my sights on a BAR Safari, 30.06. It is an awesome deer rifle and deadly to larger varmints (coyotes are a problem here). It’ll reach out and touch them at a couple hundred yards.
Since it’s a gas-operated, autoloader, the regime will say it’s a “semi-automatic assault rifle”. Which is silly. I believe with the 30.06, it only holds 4-5 rounds in its clip, and there is no fully auto, machine gun effect.
In essence, it’s not a whole lot different than a Civil War Spencer repeating rifle. Which is the case with just about every “semi-automatic”.
Would I go to Dicks to get such a gun? I don’t think they’d even know what I’m talking about.
They do where I live. Given the political sticker breakdown, I'd say most days the shoppers that fit that definition run at least 35 - 40%
News reports I've read indicated it was found in the trunk of shooter's vehicle.
In the past, they caved to Handgun Control Inc and quit selling handguns. Then a few years later, they quit selling military style rifles.
Then a couple of years back they began to sell rifles again.
That’s difficult at Chinese wages.
Are those real Coyotes in Southern Ohio or some kind of half wolf mix-breed?
The coyotes here in Southern California are generally about the size of a medium dog and are usually as skinny as a concentration camp survivor and could easily be put down with one shot from a .22.
One would think a 30.06 might be overkill (unless you wanted to try to kill 3 or 4 with one shot). When you say “larger varmits” and coyotes together in the same sentence it doesn’t compute with my Southern California experience.
Just how big are your coyotes?
A recent article about the eastern coyote says:
Wolves in the eastern United States are hybrids of gray wolves and coyotes, while the region's coyotes actually are wolf-coyote-dog hybrids, according to a new genetic study that is adding fuel to a longstanding debate over the origins of two endangered species.
I was a bit surprised at the size of the one I saw last week. We do have black bear in the region that were released by wildlife folks about a decade ago, but I've not seen one, although some church members a few miles to the east of us into the hills have.
Varmints require firepower!
I've heard stories of people cutting down trees with an M16 on full auto. Any truth to that rumor?
The ones in my neighborhood are so skinny they could fit through the bars on my wrought iron fence. But I don't think they'd try because they'd have to deal with my 25 pound/24 claw cat (who we nicknamed "Killer" - although his penchant for dragging the corpses of his victims through the cat door has pretty much faded off as he has aged. I always expected that someday he'd drag a coyote through the door, but so far the biggest animal he has disemboweled on my living room floor has been a jackrabbit).
If a person were persistent and had an awful lot of rounds to blow (or a really small tree), they could cut a tree. But a 5.56 round is the same size as a .223 caliber which is just .003 larger in diameter than a .22LR round.
I believe the spec ops miniguns mounted on AH6’s fire 5.56, and I’ve no doubt they could cut down a tree, but that thing puts out thousands of rounds really quick.
Any of the 7.76 weapons on full auto could get around to it and is a good reason for really understanding the difference between cover and concealment.
Mythbusters tried it.
Couldn’t do it with an M16 but easily took care of things with a minigun, 3000 rounds a minute.
As with a lot of early reporting on this story, much was wrong. It appears that the rifle was used and found with the dead shooter.
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