U.N.: Nearly 1 Gun for Every American

AP ^ | 7/8/03 | EDITH M. LEDERER

[76834]

Thanks for the hint.
Still remember my sore, bleeding thumb the first time I encountered one of these monsters. Hated it at first but learned to love the weapon.
LOL

[AnAmericanMother]

Great minds travel the same channels and all that.

The CMP has a good newsletter too. That .30-'06 has a bit more recoil than the .303 or .308, but it sure is a sweet rifle!

[Rebelbase]

" looking at some nice 9mm's though.........."

Reminds me of a billboard some gov. sponsored group has posted in the ethinc areas of my city. "Pull a Nine, do the Time"

[tet68]

Garands are available through the CMP program for under $500. Excellent/like new bolt actions can be had for under
$100, with most going for $150 up.

check out www.Cruffler.com

And the BBT (big brown truck) brings them right to your hot
little hands.

Mausers and Moisins, invite one into your home and the next
thing you know, the whole family is living with you.

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, gosh, another sufferer from "M-1 Thumb".

I was warned, when my husband first went into the Army they were still drilling with those things.

[tet68]

www.milsurpshooter.net

[shootist]

More guns less crime!!!

[76834]

LOL
Like I said, "I am no spring chicken"

So old in fact that when I was going to high school they didnt teach history, didnt have any yet.........

[GovernmentShrinker]

Nope, not good. Not nearly enough. Everyone needs at least one sidearm and one rifle. And since there are serious attempts to make it difficult of impossible to buy them down the road, one of each of these should be stockpiled for each child one has or plans to have.

[radiohead]

the title said, "Nearly 1 Gun for Every American"

somewhere, somebody's slackin' up...

[ought-six]

You can be very well-armed with a .30-06. The 1903 Springfield and the M1 Garand are both chambered in .30-06. Get the Remington 700, it's a great gun. You should also be able to find a used '03 Springfield at any gun store, and Springfield Armory is reintroducing the M1 Garand on a limited basis (but it's procey: be prepared to pay $900 - $1,100).

[GovernmentShrinker]

I wonder what the per person average is for registered freepers. Bet it's a lot higher than one :-) I've got 7 (and counting).

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Get a Springfield Armory M1 Garand.

General Patton said it was the greatest weapon of war ever made.

It is my favorite. Straightest shooting visually sighted rifle anywhere. Of course, I have others...

[AAABEST]

You need something big. Get a 12 gauge and a rifle.

It's your duty to your country and your family!

[JOHANNES801]

I have alot of the off the wall stuff,308 norma mag,25-06,a 44/357.0ver 30 in all ,some good scatter guns and pistols too.We still shot must of our meat.

[realistic]

Agreed, some folks out there are slackers. I like my mini 30 and my Winchester 12ga. and most especially the Ruger .357 single action, the only pistol I've been able to shoot accurately. I'm looking for more to keep the numbers up but I'm not so sure I'll put my resources to work to protect those who think personal safety is a function of government.

[AAABEST]

still shot must of our meat.

I envy you to a certain degree, I live in a semi-rural area, but not that rural. What area do you live in?

[superloser]

Humm, I'm obviously not keeping up with you folks :)

My circa 1890 side-by-side, M1 Carbine, and pair of .32 revolvers from my grandfather just isn't enough it seems.

Time to go shopping this weekend...

[tet68]

I would like to take this opportunity to urge everyone who owns arms to buy a good quality safe to keep them in.

A heavy duty 14 gun unit can be had from Wally world for around $300 on sale, just keep your eyes peeled.

I didn't for years, and lost all, ALL my family heirloom guns in a robbery. Now I have a safe, and infact will soon be buying another as I am running out of room.

Please don't let scum steal your heritage, keep it safe to pass on to your children, they may NEED it.
I doesn't hurt to keep them safe till then too.

[Southack]

NOTE: It's not just guns.

Yes, we're well-armed, and we're going to stay that way, but we've also got planes and boats.

American civilians own more private aircraft than all non-U.S. airforce's in the world, combined. The UN NWO types might think that a few suicidal jihadists are a "potent force" with which to be reckoned, but they haven't seen anything compared to what enraged American civilians could do (not that we'll ever have to, mind you, as our military needs no such help from us).

And navies? Private American civilians own 20,000 **TIMES** more salt-water boats than the largest ocean-going navy. Americans are are also pretty good with GPS's, computers, and timers; and we can legally buy fertilizer at every feed store and diesel fuel at every marina. So for you UN types, you do the math. Of course, our military needs no such help, but our civilian backup is one of those nice-to-have luxuries that come as a perk to living in the free-est, richest, most powerful nation to ever grace this planet.

Messing with us is simply **NOT** a wise career move.

I mean sheesh, leave us alone and we'll trade with the rest of the world. We'll donate more Dollars to world charities than anyone else can muster on an absolute level, and we'll provide techincal aid and expertise.

Why mess with that? Why go picking a fight with the one nation that controls enough nuclear devices, chemical munitions, and biological weapons to wipe out entire continents at our whim?

Who thinks of such ridiculous notions as prodding us by hijacking our our airliners and crashing down our own civilian buildings? What can be wrought from such annoyances besides the eventual wholesale destruction of those who so attack us?

Technology. We went to the Moon more than 3 decades ago, and the rest of the world still can't match even that old feat. Only a dozen nations have even managed to build their own nukes, something that we did more than half a century ago. Stealth?!

Economy. The U.S. is it. We've gone from 23% of the world's GDP in 1983 to 30% today. We're only 4% of this planet's population, yet we have more wealth than 60% of other countries combined. We fund research and development on mere whims. We've got more money in money market funds than most entire nations will ever even see.

Military. The U.S. is it. No other combination of forces even comes close. The full might of the Soviet forces and technology at their peak saw two very different proofs of the superiority of American power in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Food. No one produces or exports as much food as does the U.S. Food and money are crucial to winning extended wars of attrition.

At the present time, there is simply no deficiency to be exploited by our enemies against us. Not economic. Not with food. Not militarily.

And here's the punchline:

Ever **IF** an enemy could get by all of the above, then they'd face the most armed civilian population in history.

We've got more guns (see this thread's lead article). We've also got more civilian planes and boats than any other nation has torpedoes and anti-aircraft missiles.

Put simply: military options against the U.S. are not feasible at this time in history.