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Gun shows caught amid heated crossfire
The Kansas City Star ^ | Sun, Mar. 26, 2006 | JUDY L. THOMAS

Posted on 03/26/2006 4:56:25 AM PST by jmq

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To: SLB

As long as polidiots and pandering presstitutes and their handlers strive to keep law abidding folks unarmed all guns on the street are pretty much illegal.......

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Stay Safe SLB...


61 posted on 03/26/2006 9:06:54 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Condor51

yeah what you said


62 posted on 03/26/2006 9:47:39 AM PST by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: wita

As long as you pay the tax.


63 posted on 03/26/2006 10:29:40 AM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: Comstock1
The KC Star won't allow handgun advertisements except by FFL holders. So law biding citizens can't sell the legally owned guns in the most convenient way in KC.
64 posted on 03/26/2006 11:00:08 AM PST by jmq (Islam=Religion of Peace)
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To: Chode; Eaker; Travis McGee; Joe Brower; Darksheare

seen this?


65 posted on 03/26/2006 11:38:30 AM PST by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal. this would not be a problem if so many were not under-precise)
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To: theBuckwheat

"assault-rifle" is a valid term with a strict denotation: light shoulder-arm, intermediate caliber, select-fire mechanism

"assault-weapon" is pure BS, loosely translates as: black, ugly, scary semi-automatic weapon easily demonized for furthering hoplophobic agenda


66 posted on 03/26/2006 11:42:13 AM PST by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal. this would not be a problem if so many were not under-precise)
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To: 60 in 06

a good Norinco SKS is quite accurate within its useful range of 600meters


67 posted on 03/26/2006 11:44:14 AM PST by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal. this would not be a problem if so many were not under-precise)
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To: Riley
I've worked gun shows where there are lots of undercover Feds and uniformed police walking around and where most of the DEALERS AND ATTENDEES would drop a dime on you in a hot second if they thought you were selling weapons unlicensed. Nobody wants someone screwing it up for everybody else by making the leftist nitwits right

Their real objective is to outlaw all private sales of firearms, not just at gun shows. They want all transfers (even family member to family member) to only be thru licensed dealers, who will dutifully record all the info and forward it to the feds

Makes confiscation at a later date much easier

68 posted on 03/26/2006 11:48:14 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the hubris to think they will be the planners)
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To: SauronOfMordor

North and West of Mojave is the place to blow off rounds in the desert. Don't venture east. The Air Force creates big holes there. Somebody told me those holes became swimming pools for birds and snakes recently. I don't know how things live with all that carbonate and hydroxide there.


69 posted on 03/26/2006 12:46:40 PM PST by BobS
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To: jmq
Where's the
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70 posted on 03/26/2006 3:16:06 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if you don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
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To: GW and Twins Pawpaw

...and most importantly have the government paperwork in hand showing you paid the tax which of course finally makes your silencer legal. Until that time, don't touch and don't possess.


71 posted on 03/26/2006 5:12:37 PM PST by wita (truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
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To: wita

Absolutely! Afterward, the 'paperwork' stays safe in the gun safe. A copy of said paperwork goes out with the weapon when it goes to the gun range...:-)


72 posted on 03/26/2006 6:01:41 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: jmq

Oh no! AK-47. SKS. Machine guns! Hey, she forgot the lovely AR-15. Too bad she has no clue what she's talking about. Since when have criminals desired to carry around small-bore rifles at least 32" long and typically weighing 7-10 pounds? Not exactly easy guns for criminals to conceal. Seems to me that criminals are much more fond of cheap, decades-old revolvers or really low-budget semi-auto pistols that can bought on the street for next to nothing instead of buying $1000 rifles at a gun show. If by machine gun, she means a fully-automatic rifle, then even if the criminal somehow got through all the paperwork, fingerprinting, and background checks first, something tells me the criminal would not have the $25K - $50K asking price.


73 posted on 03/26/2006 8:41:51 PM PST by CountryBumpkin
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To: AAABEST; wku man; SLB; Travis McGee; Squantos; Shooter 2.5; The Old Hoosier; xrp; freedomlover; ...
SSDD.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

74 posted on 03/27/2006 5:19:50 AM PST by Joe Brower (The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
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To: Joe Brower
Now I feel really good about buying this SKS over the weekend.

This "EVIL" SKS.


75 posted on 03/27/2006 5:36:59 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: jmq
But gun-safety advocates point out those prosecutions, which they applaud, are mostly for felons possessing firearms or committing a felony with one — not for violators who buy and sell firearms illegally.

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Still, some gun-rights advocates complain that federal law enforcement agencies are too aggressive. Last month, they persuaded a congressional subcommittee to hold hearings on the way the ATF investigated gun shows in Richmond, Va.

SO this is how the Media are laying the battle out nowadays. "Gun safety advocates" are actually gun ban advocates, while gun owners, who actually advocate gun safety are called gun rights advocates, which "nuances" out to mean that if you are in favor of "gun rights" you are opposed to "gun safety" as advocated by the GUN BANNERS. Rank royally rotten anal drippings.

Do people nowadays have trouble understanding English because of the media, or does the media have trouble understanding the language? This obfustication is purely intentional.

Yet you never hear of "automotive safety advocates" advocating banning autos. Well, anything that isn't fun, anyway.

76 posted on 03/27/2006 5:53:28 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: OXENinFLA

OMG!!! It has a sniper bayonet on the end!! Able to kill humans at a distance of over 1000 mm!! Who needs to kill people at this distance?!?!?!


77 posted on 03/27/2006 5:54:51 AM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: coloradan
a sniper bayonet

LOL!!

78 posted on 03/27/2006 5:59:16 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: jmq
AK-47s.

Well then, it's a Class III, ain't it, and nobody is just going to walk in off the street and buy it without some serious paperwork. Unless the columnist is an ignorant, biased twit and is in fact referring to any of several semi-auto versions of the AK action.

SKS sniper rifles.

An SKS sniper rifle? Please. Oh wait, the intent was to classify anything resembling a rifle as a "sniper weapon" for the purpose of demonization. Gotcha.

Armor-piercing bullets. Piercing what kind of armor? Any rifle ammo off the shelf will pierce body armor, and I've yet to see any DU rounds for sale for taking out Bradleys. Again, an obvious attempt at demonization and simultaneous display of wretched ignorance.

79 posted on 03/27/2006 6:01:19 AM PST by RogueIsland (.)
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To: Comstock1
3) I've been to dozens of gun shows in the past twenty years. I've never heard of someone being shot at a gun show. Even at the shows that allow ammo to be sold at the same time as guns, I've only heard of one problem--some idiot at the Houston Gun Show discharged an "unloaded gun" about ten years ago--the details are fuzzy.

The dumbest incident I heard of was a guy who was looking a a .22 pistol. Since it was a rimfire and he didn't want to damage the gun by dryfiring it, he somehow got it into his head that the proper course of action was to chamber a live round into it and fire it at the floor -- right in the middle of the busy gun show.

Needless to say, his willingness to go the extra mile to preserve the firing pin for future generations was not greatly appreciated by the dealer, the patrons, or the uniformed officers providing security for the event.

80 posted on 03/27/2006 6:06:46 AM PST by RogueIsland (.)
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