There’s lots of weapons that can take down a large mammal in a matter of seconds. At close range a single shot shotgun with a rifled slug would do the trick on most targets. There’s plenty of rationale in having a weapon to defend yourself, your home, your family, your animals. That rationale may not apply to your…

We tell million of people what they can or can’t do all the damned time. Does it matter how someone intionally kills 58 people? Or just that they did? The how isn’t the important part. It’s never been the important part.

It’s a nice round number, the 1911 holds 7, the M1 Garand held 8 with a fixed mag. Seems like it’s covering the classics without offering too much headroom for massacre.

Seems overly litigious. Why not just limit the mag capacity so they have to stop and reload?

I mean the term applies when emulating a police officer. and is found in plenty of statutes. there’s lots of ways that can be interpreted, the method is not important, the result is e.g. similar or equal to fully automatic fire. what that does is avoid the legislative whack-a-mole that we see when dealing with arm…

A low capacity semi automatic weapons is no more or less dangerous to humans than lever action rifle of the 1800's. What it does is minimize, to a reasonable level the amount of available firepower available in a set situation. If the Vegas shooter has 5-10 shots, then has to stop and reload, you think we’d be looking…

Ok, but a shotgun isn’t accurate for more than 100 yards, especially in the case of 00 buck shot. I’d much rather get tagged with a piece of buckshot at 300 yards than the last 20 rounds of a high powered rifle.

I am genuinely, no-fooling curious to hear your reasoning as to why a civilian needs any access to electricity, internet, running water, or starbucks.

I see you’ve had your car in an impound lot before hahaha. And I hear your concerns, its the correlation of gun violence to DV that gives me pause to side with the accused.

The only problem with that is now you have to have some sort of regulatory board to determine and catalog this info.

Well its not just a bumpfire problem, its a magazine capacity problem. bump firing becomes kind of moot if your mag only holds 10 rounds.

I think this is the big one, and it solves a lot of problems. Mag caps are crazy. 5-10 rounds is enough. I mean I’ve got a Glock 17, and 17 round mags seem excessive, of course in a situation where i had to use the weapon to defend myself I’d be glad they were there, but ultimately they would probably be unnecessary.

That’s not the point that I was making. I think that while the SBR/SBS and LBP definitions are kind of outdated, and we need to revise the laws regarding them. the point I was trying to make was that having laws in place make it easier to prosecute, and there is also feeling the community that automatic weapons and…

I think that if we’re going to have a dialogue about weapons, we should skip the ad hominem attacks and discuss the issue here. a large group thinks that no one should have guns, another group thinks there should be no restrictions and yet another group is in the middle who thinks that we need to do something, but…

It would be temporary confiscation until proven guilty. The police can impound your car while you wait for your court date on that reckless driving misdemeanor, the same applies here.

Though it isn’t often portrayed as an unlimited right, it is not. You don’t have the right to own any weapon you want. That’s settled as a matter of law. When you start putting an object and your enjoyment of it over the wellbeing of other people, something is fucked there.

We don’t tell hockey players not to go for the rebound. Skill marksmen miss sometimes. You spend hundreds of hours each season freezing your nethers off to miss, not be able to take a follow up shot and tell me how that feels. I know that feeling. I get that lots of people don’t like hunting, but we eat the meat and…

Brother I’ve been shooting since I was 6 and have fired a variety of weapons including full rock-n- roll pre-ban automatic weapons. I’m also political scientist with a concentration on public law. The way that is written would only apply to devices in addition to the rifles themselves, as delivered by the…

If you miss an initial shot you get a quick follow up. Small game - rabbits and squirrels, they’re fast and small. Also, sometimes if you fire at say a deer, and miss they will just freeze until they can verify where the noise came from, reloading manually in a bolt action rifle or a pump action shotgun can create a…

Yeah, I want mag caps federally limited at 10 rounds and need based requirements for handgun ownership. Complete and total ban on concealed carry, 30 day waiting periods and mandatory registration of all guns. Immediate confiscstion of the weapons of Accused domestic violence suspects, only to be returned if it goes…