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In reply to the discussion: Revenge of the Gun Nerds [View all]Any rifle will do it.
Some obscure Soviet era pistols fire a very fast bullet that will.
There were some really expensive speciality rounds made in the 80s for government users that supposedly could do it. Congress reacted by passing a sweeping ban on lots of styles of construction of handgun rounds that banned those and in the process banned a lot of ones that were not ever armor piercing as well because as is typical badly written legislation about guns.
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Yep. Can't express an opinion about guns if one is not a rabid white wing gun-nut, trained to kill.
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#1
Addiction to guns and intimidation is worse. It might be a "game" to me, but it's protecting
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#10
What's your point? That flooding the country with guns is good for someone besides gun CEOs?
sharedvalues
Mar 2018
#52
It's standard corp finance: gun co's have a marketing budget. But here's some details.
sharedvalues
Mar 2018
#87
Do sales between individuals fund the NRA? If I buy a box of ammo from my neighbor, am I funding...
Marengo
Mar 2018
#136
Is there a mathematical formula for computing the amount of blood on my hands?
Devil Child
Mar 2018
#96
Hum, I'd call that arming up against the majority of gun-strokers who are white wing racists
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#12
I would categorize that as a blatant attempt to obscure the fact that white wing racist gunners
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#60
Looking at murders statistics, can't one say that gunners of all races put guns over society?
hack89
Mar 2018
#62
White gunners are the only ones arming up against government and changing demographics they are
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#63
There would be a lot less poor on poor gun crime if you guys would quit buying more guns.
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#73
Your failure to answer is noted. Im going to ask you again, do you categorize them as gunners...
Marengo
Mar 2018
#70
Sure. Pass real bans, that actually work. As Rubio said (to cheers): need to ban semi-autos
sharedvalues
Mar 2018
#53
I'm not interested in people who can't imagine life without guns influencing society's gun laws.
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#64
Ah come on, those might be exaggerations, kind of like gunners exaggerate the need for
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#27
Are there weapons or loads more likely to penetrate an armored vest? If so, then there are so-called
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#37
Well, those guys out in LA years ago, sure managed to take out the police. Of course, they were
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#42
Don't care about gunners' experience with lethal weapons. Has nothing to do with whether guns
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#67
"Well, those guys out in LA years ago, sure managed to take out the police" Not really...
EX500rider
Mar 2018
#104
I don't think you read your citation -- "twelve police officers and eight civilians were injured. ."
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#105
I know all about the events of that day and the only ones taken out as in killed were the robbers
EX500rider
Mar 2018
#107
Handgun bullets are cop-killers. That's why Canada, the UK, Japan and Australia all-but-ban them.
sharedvalues
Mar 2018
#54
Right, because most the criminals who currently kill cops and are already prohibited..
EX500rider
Mar 2018
#111
So sorry that "liberals" and "progressives" aren't living up to your standards.
Paladin
Mar 2018
#19
I was born prior to 1957, and spent my entire life handling firearms of all types.
SlimJimmy
Mar 2018
#35
How do you avoid getting rolled by the NRA again like what happened in 1994 with the AWB?
hack89
Mar 2018
#69
I must have missed where all the AIDS activists in the 80s were medical researcher PhDs
sharedvalues
Mar 2018
#83
Firearms work by sending bullets out of a metal barrel. What else is there to "know"?
Fred Sanders
Mar 2018
#102
I had some nut try this because I mentioned teflon bullets, correcting me as "teflon coated".
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2018
#30
"He tried to trip me up with lingo, because he couldn't refute anything else I was saying."
mac56
Mar 2018
#34
Then I guess the advertising that I posted is a hoax and not the real thing?
SlimJimmy
Mar 2018
#114
I'll never understand that the purpose of hunting is to obliterate your game?
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2018
#133
They could have changed the designation at anytime since. Bet my rear, Marketeers said No.
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#106
Just repeating what DU gun expert -- only ones allowed to express opinions on sicko "hobby" -- said.
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#122
Nice try, but it was "marketeered" as a hunting rifle. See my other response this thread.
SlimJimmy
Mar 2018
#113
Don't think hunters -- of animals -- need a rifle with that capacity. Fact is, only 6% of population
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#121