Posted on 12/26/2012 12:38:40 PM PST by Perseverando
In 1996, John Ross penned what has become a classic story of what might happen when the federal government oversteps its bounds and clamps down too hard on guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans. So chilling is the story, so graphic in its descriptions of how some Americans might fight back, that Mr. Ross and his wife were hounded and intimidated by federal authorities.
Yet the title of his novel speaks loudly about what the gun-grabbers can expect when they legislate from emotion rather than fact. There, in Unintended Consequences, many of them lost their fictional lives. Here, in real-life America, we have magnets that draw armed lunatics into schools, malls, and other venues where guns are banned.
So we need more gun laws! We need to reinstitute the assault weapons ban!
Let's recall.
In 1994, Congress implemented a so-called "assault weapons" ban. Basically, this law forbade the sale of guns that had two or more "assault" features. Pistol grips, telescoping stocks, bayonet lugs, extended magazine tubes, flash suppressors, and other accessories could suddenly turn a "lawful" gun into the singularly loathsome "assault weapon." In fact, when I added an extended magazine tube to a Benelli Super 90 shotgun before I first removed the pistol grip, I was, for the 20 minutes it took me to pull the pistol grip, committing a felony.
The law also banned "high-capacity" magazines. Henceforth, no magazine could be manufactured containing more than ten rounds.
Okay, fine and good. We all made do. We lived. We got really fast at making magazine changes. No one came to arrest me.
But the law was clearly foolish. Something not appreciated by the gun ban folks is that it takes barely a half-second to drop a magazine out of a handgun and ram a fresh one home.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
List? Should I care about that?
If so, aren't we way past any "tipping point" and due for a serious house cleaning any way...
Where did you find the pdf?
Just posting telepathically won't help. You also need to post without being logged in.
I just tried to go there. No luck. Maybe I just wasn't quick enough. It will be interesting to see if that site page is down for good.
Gladly. The enforcers will probably want to be on the same team / list after they see what O has in store or the American people. I think all tyrants secretly worry that their minions will wake up and turn on them.
“I’ve converted it to epub so I can read it on my eook reader”
How do you do that? Please explain.
And thank you (in advance!).
“I tried to find this book to buy it, and it is now so rare that it’s over $200. Did the government buy up all the available copies? It sounds to me that it would be profitable for the publisher to have a new printing.”
I bought two when they came out and had John autograph them at a pro-2A rally in Denver (there were more cops than there were of us), I still have one and gave the other to a friend. The BATF tried to intimidate him because of the book. They didn’t like the way they were portrayed poor babies. I’ve read it several times but not recently.
Went to your link and his account does not jibe well with the account of government intimidation described in the article.
Here it is at the bottom of the FAQ...
If you want to give out copies of UC as gifts or sell them at fundraisers etc. and make some money, call Accurate Press at (800) 374-4049 to get case pricing (multiples of 8 books.) If you ask nicely, you can probably convince them to make me sign them all for you. Accurate Press is also on the web at www.accuratepress.net.
“So, please tell me why the publisher hasn’t printed another run of this book that retailed for $28.95?”
Just a guess, but maybe for liability reasons. If something goes down, and the perpetrator has a copy of this book, the publisher is sure to get sued into oblivion by the libs.
Great book and it paints a very realistic scenario that is just a stark and eye opening as Ross' book.
my, thank you for the link!
The conflict has been building for over half a century, and once again warning flags are frantically waving while the instigators rush headlong towards the abyss, and their doom.
It is my hope that these people will stop and reverse their course before they reach the point where such reversal is no longer possible.
John Ross
September 1995"
The actual quote is: "to ride well, shoot straight, and speak the truth...""
Try again. It's there. You can also right click the link and use 'Save link As'.
List? Should I care about that?
If so, aren't we way past any "tipping point" and due for a serious house cleaning any way...
Just for the heck of asking, "What was your MOS?" Semper FI,
TS
Download Mobi Book Creator for free. It will convert Adobe .pdf files to all formats read by Kindle (prc) or Nook.
30 rounds to 10 rounds, to 7 rounds, to 5 rounds, to 3 rounds, to 1 round, to NO ROUNDS.
“shall not be infringed”???
But if he had his preference, Bloomberg said he would go farther than the 1994 ban and outlaw all automatic and semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines. The mayor said magazines shouldn’t be allowed to contain more than five or six rounds.
“If you haven’t hit the deer with three shots, you’re a pretty lousy shot. The deer deserves to get away,” he said.
6027. F/A-18 A/C jet engine mechanic.
It will let you convert just about anything to anything as long as the doc isn't encrypted. It takes a little trial and error to get the output to be what you want, but with a little practice, you can do some really cool things.
Calibre is great. It runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. I use Linux, so I'm more familiar with that.
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