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Moscow’s continuing refusal to capitulate to the international homosexual movement’s demands is in defiance of European Court of Human Rights,

Wow, who would have thought 20 years ago that the Russian people's stance on this critically important moral issue would be more biblicly (sp?) correct than that of the American people? I don't want to see physical injury inflicted on homosexual demonstrators by mob violence as has happened recently in at least one former USSR nation, but neither do I want to see their sickening deviancy approved and actually celebrated in our city streets and parks.

I am more amazed every day by the very recent turnaround of public opinion that has taken place in the US just in the last 3 or 4 years regarding homosexual deviancy. God didn't tolerate this abomination in the era of Sodom and Gomorrah and He won't hold back His wrath on the US very much longer unless we as a nation return to the biblical standards of morality that prevailed in previous American generations. If all the very recent reversals of opinion on immoral sexual aberrations that now seem to be acceptable to the majority of Americans are added up we don't appear to be any more morally correct than the ancient Sodomites who God destroyed in one day. We aren't any more immune to His righteous judgment than were they were, and His wrath fell on them and were destroyed down to the last man in just one fiery judgment day. A massive nuclear attack wouldn't kill all Americans as God's judgment killed all the Sodomites, but for all who survive it would be the end of the world as we have known it.

Anyway, a nuclear attack isn't the only way God could and may punish America, and our approval of deviant sex isn't our nation's only nationally approved sin. The murder of over 50 million unborn children may well outweigh even the sin of homosexual deviancy on His scales, and His prescribed punishment for murder is death.

This reminds me of another unworkable proposal made several years ago by NYC's renowned mayor Bloomblossom. His idea was to require ammo makers to somehow put a marker on on every individual bullet so that it could be traced back to the purchaser. I suppose his idea was inspired by the federal law that requires all firearms to have a serial # engraved on the frame, but of course it would be unworkable for many more reasons than I have fingers and toes to count them with. One reason that comes to mind is how easy it is to cast your own bullets by use of bullet molds and scrap lead.

I might give Bloomie credit for having the most stupid idea of all time regarding this issue if not for this one. I remember wondering at the time if he had any idea of how many bullets are made and sold every year, or how little space there is on a .17" diameter bullet, or even a.22" diameter bullet, on which to encode a unique marker of some kind that would identify that one bullet out of the multiple billions, or maybe even more, that are made in many countries around the world every year. And that's not to even mention the uncountable trillions of shotgun pellets that are as deadly en masse as an individual bullet. Perhaps this proposal will be a possibilty by let's say, oh, another 25 years or so, or maybe not even then.

Welcome to Perversion.

Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah. Or more likely, welcome to the end of America's military supremacy in the world and so long to our high standard of living.

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

That verse also applies to nations as well as to men, and ours is mocking God by celebrating what it calls "diversity" but is actually a gross sin according to God's Word.

God save our nation.

Why should He, our nation has rejected Him and His Word.

Unless we a a nation return to the faith of the founding fathers God's judgment is going to fall on this nation, and when it does it's day in the sun will be over. No doubt there's a good reason why the US isn't mentioned in the book of the Apocalypse. IMO, by that time either it won't be important enough on the world scene to be mentioned or it won't exist, probably the latter.

Japan has a near complete gun ban but yet has a much higher suicide rate than America

Mexico has a near complete gun ban yet has a crime rate much higher than America

Russia bans handguns for all civilians, and also bans long guns for almost all Russians except licensed hunters. However, Russia's overall per capita rate for murders committed with any and all types of weapons is almost 4 times higher than the overall US rate for murders committed with all types of weapons including guns. The study also found that many other Euro nations with very strict gun control laws have as high or higher per capita murder rates as the US has.

Its not the NRA saying all that, it's in part of a study of murder rates in several Euro nations that was made by two Harvard professors, and Harvard isn't exactly what I would call a pro-gun institution. Actually, in view of Harvard's well known hostility to our 2nd A rights I'm surprised that the results of that study were made public.

A 9 year old kid was suspended for 2 days for pointing a PENCIL at antoher kid and goign ‘Bang’- does htis answer your question?

YES! Going by that rule of thumb for kids and "weapons", as a kid I must have "killed" at least 50 other kids in my neighborhood with my pot metal cap guns.

Not only did he let his 3 year old son shoot it, he gave it to his daughter who rode around the park on her bike and pointed it at other children.

SO WHAT ??? For cryin out loud, it was a TOY GUN like the cap guns I and my friends played with 70 years ago. When we got old enough (10-12) most of us were given a shotgun or a .22 rifle if we wanted to hunt squirrels and rabbits. My grandfather taught me to shoot his .22 rifle when I was 9 and shells for his 12 guage Winchester pump gun were hard to get during WWII. I don't remember any of my cousins or friends at that approximate age whose parents wouldn't let them use a gun for hunting, or even for making holes in tin cans. OK, yeah we had to have an adult with us when we were shooting real guns, but nobody was arrested and if they had been any jury would have laughed the prosecutor out of the courtroom.

Has the entire US gone nuts, or does it only seem that way to people like me who are old enough to remember when the great majority of the American people weren't insane?

the ban affects firearms that are semi-automatic, with detachable magazines and one or more military features, such as the pistol grip or a flash suppressor at the end of the barrel.

Yep, we gotta get rid of those deadly flash hiders and pistol grips, thousands of kids are no doubt killed every year by those evil devices.

The gun grabbers have learned very well how to take advantage of the ignorance of the average American who knows about as much about firearms as I know about the dark side of the moon. When I got my 1st shotgun in 1949 for my 12th birthday I already knew more about guns than the average American adult does today.

Several weeks ago, maybe a bit earlier, I posted the results of a scholarly study made recently by 2 Harvard professors showing that Russia, which has a virtually total ban on privately owned handguns plus strict licensing for hunting rifles and shotguns, has a murder rate almost 4 times higher than the US. Murder by firearms is lower than ours, but the overall murder rate is much higher.

That study also found that the UK's overall crime rate has increased dramatically since handguns were banned except for police and military in the early 1990s and stricter controls on long guns were imposed. IIRC, the UK murder rate by firearms has declined somewhat since that ban, but not the overall murder rate and crime in general has increased.

So true! My Godly parents used to tell us kids that we should be happy with the things we had and not to be jealous of kids who had more material goods (toys, clothes, etc) than we had. But of course that didn't satisfy us, we wanted everything the other kids had and didn't understand why our parents couldn't just pick them out of thin air for us. They also told us not to lord it over the poorer kids who had even less than we did, but sad to say we didn't always do that either.

Of course all that went right over our heads way back then (1940's) but I began to understand it much better after I had kids of my own and my financial situation seemed to be just one disappointment after another while they were still in their early years. Now as I look back from my current age, (late '70's), I can see that God was guiding my life and that in all those seemingly difficult mid-life years He knew what was best for me and I didn't. Today I don't have all the material goods that I spent a goodly portion of my life trying to obtain, but never the less I am more satisfied with my current way of life and what material goods I do have than I have ever been before and the best is yet to come.

All that to say this; Surrender your life to the lordship of Jesus Christ, then take your hands off your life's steering wheel and let Him do the driving.

It doesn't matter to me, or to God for that matter, whether those babies were killed in the womb, the birth canal, or after birth. What matters to me, and should matter to every decent human being, is that those tiny, innocent, human beings were painfully, torturously murdered in either case.

The only proper sentence for murder aforethought is death, but in light of the current lenient attitude of most Americans regarding moral issues I don't expect anything more than a light slap on the wrist for this despicable baby murderer and possibly his willing accomplices. But true justice will be eventually served, if not in this present world's court it will be served in God's Supreme Court.

On that note, I have no doubt that unless the 7 Justices of the USSC who voted in 1973 to legalize murdering babies in their mothers' womb have repented or will repent of that unspeakable sin and seek forgiveness through the blood sacrifice made by Jesus Christ on the cross they will join the murderous Philly doctor in one of the warmer cells of hell.

I've been feasting on mangoes the past few days. It's the season

Mmmm, mangoes, one of the few things I miss about FL.

I remember when we picked them up off the sidewalks in the town where I lived as a kid. There were hundreds of huge old mango trees growing between the sidewalks and curbs and countless thousands of ripe mangoes fell on the sidewalks, nearby lawns, and empty lots and were free for the taking. When I left FL 17 years ago those trees had been cut down several years earlier, probably because of the mess they made. Bad decision IMHO, the poor Afro-American kids in some of those neighborhoods ate them by the bushel and they were probably the only nutritious fresh fruit they got.

all people are entitled to their own interpretations of the Book of Leviticus.

Wrong, no one is entitled to interpret the bible to mean what he or she wants or doesn't want it to mean in order to make it conform to their own views on whatever the issue at hand may be. The biblical condemnation of homosexual acts as sin is as clear as any combination of words can be, and it isn't limited to Leviticus or to the Old Testament. The biblical account of the perverted sex acts of Sodom's homosexual residents are so clearly shown to be grossly sinful that the word "sodomy" is still commonly used to identify that abomination. That particular sin is also cited, among others, in the 1st chapter of Romans (New Testament) as one of the most prevalent sins of the antediluvian people, and as the primary reason for God's almost total annihilation of that ancient civilization with a world-wide flood that killed every human being except righteous Noah and the 7 other members of his family.

There are several other passages in both the NT and OT that condemn homosexual acts as sin, but it really doesn't matter how many times it's repeated because God only has to say a thing once in order for it to be as true as if He had said it a thousand times. I can't say with absolute certainty that an inborn tendency to desire sex with persons of the opposite sex constitutes sin in God's book, but there is no question at all as to whether or not the actual practice of those acts is as sinful as any other act identified as sin in both the Old and New Testaments.

The good news, aka the Gospel, is that Jesus Christ's atoning death on the cross paid the death penalty for ALL sin of ALL men and women who repent of their sins, accept Jesus Christ as Lord, and believe in his/her heart that God the Father raised Him from the dead, as per Romans ch 9 v 10. Many thousand of homosexuals have become Christians and have been delivered from their former perversion. But the God-hating American media and the non-Christians who are now the majority in America insist that homosexuality is irreversible, that those who claim to have been delivered from their former perverse desires are lying, and that most of them have resumed practicing their former homosexual lifestyle.

There may be some justification for his fans to suspect that Tebow’s open displays of thanksgiving to God on the field is the real reason for him losing his job, and as a born again Christian (there's no other kind) myself I can understand that suspicion. We Christians aren't popular in today's world, and in truth we never have been. However, in his case I think there's good reason to believe what was quite obvious when Denver traded him, namely that his inability to adapt to the pro game is the real reason, and that's an entirely valid reason in the pro game.

1 out of 10 of my Winchester Wildcat .22 did not fire.

I read a lot on gun forums about that happening with all brands of .22 ammo that's sold in those large boxes. However, I have fired several thousand of them over the past few years and haven't had any more misfires than I would expect to have with the more expensive stuff, which is very few. Maybe I've just been lucky, or maybe my little 1940's vintage Mossberg rifle has a stronger firing pin spring than newer rifles have. It's the most accurate .22 rifle I have ever owned, and that includes most of the big name brands at one time or another over the past 55 years that I've owned guns.

As for the current ammo shortage I don't know what's going on, but if I were a betting man (I'm not) I would put money on it having something to do with the Kenyan Kommy who has twice lied his way into our White House. Now that he's on his last term his real agenda is beginning to show through the camouflage. It's not pretty now, and it's only gonna get uglier as his time in office grows shorter. The next Congressional election may well be the most critical election in US history.

Have the media outlets that you follow ever even mentioned that some studies have produced evidence that murder rates tend to be higher in places with tight gun control laws?

A recent study by 2 Harvard professors of Russia's gun laws found that it's per capita murder rate is almost 4 times higher than the US rate. This despite a total handgun ban for virtually all Russians except police and military personnel, and licensed long guns are only allowed for licensed hunters and must be stored except during hunting season. The study found that the majority of murders in Russia are committed with bare hands and/or improvised weapons such as knives, clubs, tools, ropes, etc.

IIRC I posted a brief summary of the Harvard study on FR several weeks ago, but I may be thinking of something else I intended to post on that same subject but never got a roundtoit.

How long is it before one's own government, by refusing to even name, much less fight against its sworn enemies, itself becomes an even greater enemy of its own people?

Up until about 4-1/2 years ago I would have answered that question with "sometime in the next 20-25 years", but now I think we're almost there today. Obama is not only the most incompetent president in US history, he ranks highest in the running for the most dangerous enemy the US has ever faced whether foreign or domestic. One camouflaged enemy in the camp poses a greater danger than a thousand enemies in the open field.

The big question is what doses he mean by explosive powder.

Given his long record of introducing and sponsoring anti-2nd Amendment bills he no doubt means the smokeless propellants used by handloaders to reload fired cartridge cases. Black powder that was used in pre-20th century cartridges is an explosive, but the smokeless propellants used in virtually all cartridges since then isn't. Smokeless propellants aren't classed as explosives by the BAFTE, not yet at least, and are sold by most gun stores.

The next step will probably be restrictions on lead since most reloaders reload with lead alloy bullets which can be cast from many common items containing lead such as wheel balancing weights, scrapped plumbing fixtures, old printing press lettering type, etc. I have about 50 lbs of lead I salvaged from the logs and dirt backstop on what I call my back-forty shooting range. I wanted to order a bullet casting kit from the Lee Loader website but they're out of stock and back ordered for the foreseeable future. I have propellant, fired brass cases, and primers, but I'm short of lead bullets and all of my usual sources are backordered from here to eternity.

The real but hidden purpose of the bill was to establish defacto gun registration, which the antis have been diligently working to get for the past 80+ years or more. The feds already know who has bought guns from licensed gun dealers within the last few decades, thanks to the existing background check law that applies all gun sales, trades, or other transfers from licensed dealers to individuals. The bill that was defeated today was intended to plug up that loophole in the background check law that’s been on the books for years. That law requires the feds to destroy the name and address of the purchaser within a certain time period, but the gun grabbers would laugh themselves silly at anybody who believes they actually do what that law requires. Bottom line is that once the govt knows where to find the guns the next step is a law that calls for confiscation of as many privately owned guns as can be located by info gained by that law. If we give the grabbers an inch they will grab a mile, so we can’t allow even that inch or the 2nd A will just be worthless ink on yellowed parchment for all practical purposes. Be sure to thank your Senators if they voted to kill the bill, this isn’t by any means the last battle of the war against gun ownership.

.makes my physically ill.....

I started to read the article to my wife while she was clearing dishes off the dinner table. But when I read where that monster slit the throats of fully born living babies she covered her ears and told me not to read any more of it out loud.

That guy is living proof that inhuman monsters walk among us every day in every state and city in the US. One of the most disturbing parts of this matter, to me at least, is that multiplied millions of otherwise normal Americans who we know, or work with, and/or live beside fully approve of what is going on in those murder-for-hire hellholes, and actually make government's protection of that so-called "right" their No.1 priority in deciding who they will vote for.

God won't put up with this incredibly evil practice forever. I'm afraid that my kids' and/or my grandkids' generations will pay the penalty for this current generation's ever growing litany of sins against God and His righteous laws and principles. Government sanctioned baby murder, rampant sodomy, farcical same-sex "marriage", destruction of the family unit, prohibiting even the mention of God's name and/or citing His Word at all public functions, gatherings, and school athletic events, etc. The list goes on and on, and our moral values go down and down in importance to the American people. No great nation has ever escaped divine punishment for flagrantly disobeying God's laws and spitting in His face while doing so. Neither will ours, count on it.

I just want all of ‘em tried and summarily-executed.

Can I be the guy on the gallows who pulls the trap door open, I want to see both GA Senators standing on it when I make the pull. I knew that both were going to betray the very same people who sent them to the D.C. to represent us when I got their deceitfully worded replies to my emails and letters.

Chambliss says he won't run for another term when this one expires in 4 years, but he may change his tune between now and then and if he does i won't vote fr him again. I'm sure that Isakson will run again, and I can hardly wait to vote for whoever his opponent may be in the primary. If he wins there I'll vote for his democrat opponent in the general election even if it causes my mind to go dark and I pass out from pain for doing so for the first time in my 75 years of life.

A pox on both their houses, will a pair of REAL American patriots please stand up and run for those offices? I can hardly believe that GA voters will send either of those two back after this stab in our collective back, but once again I underestimated what seems to be their propensity to vote by party preference alone even after being stabbed over and over by the people they elected. No one is more thoroughly opposed than I am to virtually everything the Democrats do and support, but even so I think that from time to time our side in Washington has to be taught a lesson in loyalty to the voters who sent them there, hard though it may be for us to do. I may change my mind about that when I cool down a few degrees, but right now that's how I feel about what went down in the Senate yesterday because the people who we elected to do our bidding did just the opposite.

So will it pass the Senate and does it have a chance in the House?

Easily pass the Senate and now probably the house as well.

A few of the so-called conservative Senators who voted to stop a filibuster will probably vote against the bill itself in the final version in order to placate the gun owners back home, all the time knowing that the Dems can pass it easily without their help now that a filibuster os off the table.

I never doubted that it would pass in the Senate where Pubs only hold 45 seats, some of whom are liberals at heart when the folks back home aren't watching. But certainly not with the help of 21 treacherous Pubs who I hope and pray will be forever remembered as traitorous turncoats by gun owning voters and conservatives in general in their states. I still have a small remnant of hope for the house, but zero confidence in the master of compromise, aka Speaker Boehnor.

If the house doesn't put the kibosh on the final version after scores of amendments are added in the Senate, a version which I guarantee will be far worse than the current version which is only a pale ghost of the final offering, it's all over but the orgasmic shouting by the ant-American lefties who worship at Obummer's feet and fervently hate both the 2nd Amendment, the US Constitution in toto, and all gun owners regardless of race, color, or creed. All we can do now is put as much pressure as possible on our people in the House and pray to almighty God for the future of our progeny who must live somehow in this rapidly self-destructing nation after we're gone.

Buy guns like criminals do. You are now a criminal.

Good idea, then you won't have to worry about the gun grabbers coming after your guns.

As we all know the grabbers aren't concerned about criminals having guns, it's the ordinary citizens they want disarmed. They won't stop until they achieve their life's goal of destroying the liberty our forefathers won for us by force of arms. A great many of those arms were owned and used in combat by the citizen-soldiers themselves, hence the 2nd Amendment's high ranking in the BORs amendments.

Obviously in 2009 when they formed this opinion.

Lots of bad things took place in 2009, IIRC some new folks moved into Washington.

I'm surprised that the hammer & sickle flag wasn't raised over the White House that year. It's probably folded up in an Oval Office desk drawer waiting for the right time to raise it and make the changeover official. May as well go ahead and let it fly, everything else is falling into place as planned.

How did we ever let our nation be taken over without even a fight? The people who voted in this revolution deserve everything we are all about to get now that Obummer doesn't have to run again and the GOP's white flag is flying higher than ever, and it ain't gonna be purty.

Yeah, but what would that medal be made of? Cheddar cheese?

Cheddar would be OK, but I much prefer Swiss. Thanks for asking though.

Better yet, ban all metals that are used to make guns, knives, etc

Great idea man, Obummer's gonna love it. He may award you an autographed 5x7 photo of himself grinning like a possum eatin briar berries. You'll probably want to frame it and put it on your desk where everybody can see it.

What do you say, let's get the ball rolling by melting down our own "weapons of war", OK? I'll melt down mine if you will and we can cast the metal into a statue of Obummer standing in the Rose Garden with one foot on the Constitution and his other foot kicking Wayne Lapierre's butt. We might even get a medal of some kind, I want mine engraved to say "He gave his all (all his guns that is) to save mankind".

How would the gov. know you transfered a gun to someone unless they knew you had it in the first place? AKA registration. !!!!

That's what this bill is all about, defacto gun registration by expanding the scope of the currently required background checks to include checks on all gun transfers by and to all individuals no matter how temporary or nominal the transfer may be. The current background check law doesn't require the gun's serial number or description but as I understand it the proposed new law does. Once Big Bro knows the gun's serial number and who received it, it will be defacto registered to that person along with his/her address so that Big Bro's goons will know where to come for it when the order is given that Senator Feinstein says she wants to hear. Of course that order she wants to hear is "Ok Mr. & Mrs. America, turn 'em all in".

Just a piddling $3 billion per year to Israel, our best friend in all the world and our one and only true friend in the entire middle east? Money well spent IMHO. We probably give Israel's enemies, and ours as well, much more than that in total, and they hate us and would blow us off the face of the earth if they had the ability to do so.

Obummer and his spendthrift wife have probably squandered almost that much on an unprecedented series of lavish vacations in exotic locations plus Obummer's luxurious golf outings all around the globe. All this travel and recreation has of course been supported by a large fleet of military planes and a huge retinue of assorted attendants and camp followers in general ever since his gaggle of America-hating far-left wingers took over the White House.

Some of the Obummer family's spending habits must have rubbed off on the harebrained clown who claims to be Obummer's VP. He recently managed to somehow blow a cool half million of the US taxpayers' frogskins on one night's room and board in Paris. That has to be a record of some kind, although his boss probably thinks he's just a small time piker in comparison to his own family's profligate spending habits.

Not to worry though, the Fed is no doubt warming up the presses to print another 2 or 3 trillion frogskins backed by nothing less than the US treasury department's endless supply of paper and ink. Who needs heavy gold bullion when ink and paper is so much easier to handle?

He should have never walked free again

Allow me to suggest another way that situation should have been handled. If he was proved beyond reasonable doubt to have murdered his grandmother, or any innocent human for that matter, he should have been hanged on the courthouse square the day after he was convicted.

OK,I admit that's a bit tough. I could go along with giving his lawyers a few months to come up with positive proof of his innocence. Then if nothing turned up to place doubt on his guilt, throw the trap and let him swing. That's not unfair, cruel, or unbiblical (tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for tooth, etc, Exodus ch 21 vs 24)

The very obvious anti-Israel bias of the Dems, (with Obummer as the most outstanding example) doesn't seem to matter to most Jewish voters. Election after election they vote en-bloc for the worst of the worst anti-Israel Dems at every opportunity. American Evangelical Christians stand solidly with Israel and are Israel's best friends and backers in the entire world. OTOH, America's left wing Jewish vote bloc seems to be among Israel's worst enemies, go figure. More proof that liberalism is a serious brain disorder.

My grandmother was born in 1879 and lived to be 100.

It's in the genes, if you don't smoke or have a fatal accident you will probably have a long life as well.

My mom was born in 1911 and died at 97, her mom died at 95, her mom at 92, and her mom at 102. All of them except my mom raised large families and outlived their husbands by quite a few years. Unfortunately for me my dad's family didn't have good genes to pass on to their male descendants.

Lately the drive by shootings in Chicago have been killing more 6 year old girls this year,

Impossible, guns are illegal in Chicago therefore gangbangers can't get them. The 6 year old girls are probably being killed by drive-by spear chunkers.

I'm afraid the government is involved somehow in the current ammo shortage. I have been trying for the past 2 months or more to buy .22 rimfire ammo and haven't found one single round available . The manager of the largest gun store in this area told me he could get $75 each for the 525 round boxes if he could get any from his supplier. The ammo makers blame the shortage on the huge orders placed by the federal government, but AFAIK the government doesn't use much, if any, .22 rimfire ammo.

Although gun ownership is protected by the 2nd A, the right to own ammo was not addressed by the recent USSC decisions and without ammo guns are useless for anything other than firewood or scrap metal. This makes me afraid that Obumma will get his way on the gun issue one way or another.

Of course you're right about the 2 recent USSC decisions that have confirmed what every honest American has known all along whether or not he/she liked it. However, the anti-gun politicians in the DC & Chicago are now rewriting their gun laws in a manner that appears on the surface to comply with the USSC decisions but in reality are almost as restrictive as the laws that were invalidated by the Court.

The last thing I saw in re the DC’s revised gun law was that the female reporter who has been trying to get the DC government's permission to buy and keep a handgun in the DC has not yet succeeded in doing so after more than 2-3 years of attempts.

Considering the age and health issues of 2 of the the conservative Justices and that 4 years are left for Obama to nominate a replacement for at least one of them, I'm not at all comfortable with the direction that a liberal-majority Court will probably take on future 2nd A cases. I hope and pray that my fears are not realized, but my outlook for the US with a majority of young generation voters like those who elected Obama twice is not very optimistic.

2nd amendment rights which cannot be infringed.

If only that were true in reality and not just in theory.

20,000+ local, state, and federal gun laws already severely and unconstitutionally infringe on the 2nd Amendment rights of all law abiding Americans. There wouldn't be any restrictions on possession of firearms by law abiding Americans if the 2nd Amendment had ever been interpreted by the USSC as the authors intended.

I thought it was from the company that made it--ARmalite.

It was, even though many other companies have made civilian versions. AFAIK Austria had nothing to do with either it's design or development as a military rifle.

The commercial AR15 variations that can be owned by civilians are modified semiauto versions of the full auto M-16 US service rifle deigned by Eugene Stoner in the 1960s. IIRC the original full auto version of the M16 went into service during the Vietnam war and was eventually modified to fire in full auto mode only in 3-round bursts. I haven't kept up with any of the the later developments and modifications of the Stoner design so there are probably more variations out there that I'm not familiar with. However, I doubt that Austria is involved in any way unless Glock has somehow gotten into the act.

And on November 4, 2008 they chose obama and reaffirmed their want and choice. Now, he is doing what they wanted him to do to them.

“A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than a gun in the hands of 200 million law-abiding citizens."

I put that line in quotes because a friend sent it to me by email. It's not original to him, but it's certainly true, and frightening as well.

IMHO the US and we it's people are in the greatest danger since it became a nation. I really believe that Obama hates the US and most of it's people. It's becoming more evident every day that he's hell bent on destroying everything that has made the US great and the American people the freest and most prosperous people in the history of the world.

I would much rather lose my property and whatever money I may have (not much) than my freedom and my Constitutionally guaranteed rights. But I'm very much afraid that all of us may lose those things and much more within the next 4 years. The Republican majority in the House could reign him in on many, if not most, of the issues that are most important to me, and IMHO should be to all Americans. But given the GOP's long record of go-along-to-get-along cowardice I'm not counting on that happening.

Sorry that I sounded so pessimistic, I hope I didn't discourage you in any way regarding your prospects for good health in the future or for lack of same. Actually, when I look back on my life I have to be thankful to my God and Savior Jesus Christ that I have reached this age without encountering nearly as many health problems as have many of my friends and family members in the same general age bracket. When I consider the many serious abuses that I have carelessly and deliberately inflicted on my body over the course of my active life I have to be reasonably content with the overall state of my health.

In any event, I must accept responsibility for any and all of those problems. After all, I'm the one who caused practically all of them, and I can't and don't blame anyone or anything other than my own stubborn insistence that I could live my life as I pleased without ever considering the unpleasant consequences that would inevitably follow. Lesson learned, a little too late for me but a good example for my beloved posterity as to how NOT to live their own precious lives. Even a longer than usual lifespan is much shorter than any young person can imagine, so they must get it right the first time because there won't be a 2nd chance to make corrections.

I turned sixty last July 7 and it’s been downhill ever since. Kind of like skiing...

Wait till you hit 75 as I did last year, the ski slope became a 100 foot high cliff with rocks at the bottom. My cardiologist tells me he will get me to 90 if I obey his orders, but I'm not sure if that's a promise or a threat.

New York law classifies ownership of 5 or more firearms as a class C felony.

That NY law would make me a 3-time loser because I own 15 now and will own a couple more whenever the firearms manufacturers catch up with demand. When I visited a local gun shop a couple of weeks ago there were only 3 revolvers & 0 semiautos in the handgun display case, and 0 semiauto or repeating rifles of any kind in the shoulder gun rack.

Shotguns still seem to be available, but I have 2 now and that's probably enough for me. I gave up hunting a few years ago when the woods around here became overrun with city-slicker hunters who think red plaid is the natural color of game animals. I've been handloading almost all my ammo since 1962, and I thought I would be OK if factory made ammo ever became in short supply. But I was wrong, reloading supplies are mow almost as hard to find as factory made ammo and guns.

To me a background check is the same as registration

It is the same for all practical purposes. If you're approved after the background check the gun dealer's record of that sale, which includes make, model, and serial number of the gun, are kept by BATF for 20 years. During the first Clinton term I was told by an agent at the Tampa BATF regional office that the gun dealer's sales records, which have the buyer's names recorded, are stored in an underground facility in WV. But I'm pretty sure that by now all those records are computerized and are instantly available to the feds. In other words, gun registration by another name.

I don't care how fat he is, but I DO care that he's just as liberal and just as much anti-2nd Amendment as the clown we're stuck with now. NJ has some of the worst unconstitutional gun laws of any state and he strongly supports every one of them. If the brain dead Pubs ever nominate him for president that will be the final straw for me and my family.

Once big government gets it's big foot in that door, all bets are off. The gay Oregon law is proof of that.

Exactly. If I had the time I could make a list of the liberties we have lost in that manner during my 75 years on this ball of dirt. In one way it makes it easier for me to contemplate my eminent departure from here to reside in a far better place.

My main concern now is the future of my kids and grand kids, what kind of world will they have to live in 40-50 years from now? Not the same one I once knew and loved, that's for sure.

The government can always threaten to take that status away — forcing churches to allow gay marriages or hire gay job applicants.

I'm a born again Christian (there's no other kind) first and a Baptist 2nd, and I believe my local church would give up it's tax free status when, not if, it comes down to a choice between obeying God's Holy Word or relinquishing it's tax exempt status. If I'm wrong about that matter I will leave my current local church and look for another one that has a strong Christian backbone like the great Apostle Paul's. In his Holy Spirit-inspired epistles he told us to obey government's JUST laws which are ordained by God, but not to obey Caesar when his UNJUST laws conflict with God's commands. I don't think there is any question about whether or not a government order to tolerate or ignore a gross sin such as homosexual depravity is NOT ordained by God since He identifies homosexual acts as a prominent one of the gross sins that the antediluvian people practiced in their heyday, (see Romans ch 1, v 26-27) and by so doing brought down God's judgment on their depraved civilization.

Simply said, I will NOT be a member of any so-called church or denomination that tolerates the practice of homosexual depravity and/or approves same-sex "marriage" by it's members. If that means paying higher taxes than are paid by those Christians who are willing to compromise with gross sin in exchange for a tax exemption so be it.

I thought a business had the right to refuse service to anyone.

No, unfortunately that right was made invalid by the 1964 civil rights act. You or I can't demand that a baker sell us a cake and then have the baker heavily fined or put out of business if he doesn't, but a pair of homosexual perverts can. If that's not a specially created "right" for one type of people I don't know what would be.

The issue back at the time the Civil Rights Act was passed was primarily restaurants, hotels, and other businesses that refused service to black people. Congress decided and the courts agreed that the right of the state to regulate businesses trumped the right of the business's owner/operator in that particular situation, and I agree. I think that law was justifiable in those days because racial characteristics such as skin color and/or other physical features are usually determined by race and are irreversible even if the person in question wanted to change. But OTOH homosexuality has been proved beyond doubt to be reversible by literally tens of thousands of former practicing homosexuals who have come out of that perverse lifestyle and now live well adjusted normal lives with opposite-sex pardners and children. IMHO forcing people to go against their traditional American Christian beliefs simply in order to cater to the whims of that one particular portion of the population is wrong-headed and un-American no matter what the courts of today say.

OK, OK guys, gimme a break willya? Yeah, I shouldn't have posted this video last evening when several other people were impatiently waiting for me to get off the puter and join them. 1st of all I should have checked to see if the video had already been posted, and 2nd I should have taken time to check my spelling. At least I gave 60-odd FReepers something to have a laugh about. No harm, no foul.

Pardon the misspelling, I was in a big hurry when I posted this. Actually, I’m still in big hurry so I may not replay to comments tonight. Scary stuff if true.

Please explain the "stupid" part.

This may not be sufficient to explain the "stupid part", but I'll give it a shot. I'll admit that it might have been more appropriate for me to have said that it was not a good idea to post the picture at the time he did. Anyway he didn't commit any crime and the really "stupid" part of the entire affair is the part in which he was arrested and is being held in custody for simply doing something that is not a crime by any cop's or judge's interpretation of the law.

If the young man had posted the photo before the Connecticut school shooting it would not have been stupid, However, it just seems to me that in light of the general public's incredibly emotional reaction to the school shooting it was stupid of the guy to post a picture of himself holding what would probably appear to most people to be a real gun while also holding a small child. If he had posted the photo prior to the school shooting and the unprecedented hyper-emotional reaction of the American people, most of whom have already been brainwashed to fear guns and gun owners, I doubt there would have been much, if any, outraged reaction to the poor guy's picture.

For all I know he may have a higher IQ than most rocket scientists, but I still think it was was stupid of him to post that picture while the public's overly emotional reaction to the Newtown school shooting was at it's highest point. What he did was certainly not a crime, and it is outrageous that he was arrested for doing something that is not a crime by any interpretation of Ohio's laws. On the other hand, if he actually posted the picture before the school shooting took place it wasn't stupid to do so and I'm the stupid one for not checking out that possibility.

Easy to spot all circled around the local Starbucks quaffing their lottes each morning around 9.

Open carry is legal in GA if you have a GA gun license. I like to wear mine in places where I know liberals hang out, but I haven't yet gotten around to doing so in a Starbucks. Thanks for reminding me to put that on my to-do list.

Open carrying in Starbucks may be a one time experience for me, because in GA the operator of a place of business can deny access to licensed gun carriers if they choose to.