That’s why it’s called a “collection”
Liberals = bad people doing bad things to good people. Lying scum bastards each and every one of them. It doesn’t matter what state or level of government or anything else, liberals are sick twisted deranged idiots who lie with every breath they take and do not possess the ability to mind their own business or leave other people alone. To the sub sub basement of hell with them all. No exceptions. I hate them, god help me I do hate them so.
God damn. Could they demonize this guy any more?
And nicely said, GrayJohn.
Drew there was a very similar story in England a couple of years back. A man was arrested when they discovered an “arsenal” of weapons. The police couldn’t wait to get on tv to demonise this chap and the BBC of course lapped it up. They were not so keen to publicise the fact that it was subsequently discovered he was a firearms dealer and the guns (mostly antiques) were all legally held. In fact most of them were antiques or air rifles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5341074.stm
This is just one example it was in every paper. Funny that when he was acquitted on every trumped up charge about the only place to cover it was a local paper.
As an aside and frankly because I cant think of much else to say ,This very day I was shooting the breeze with a guy from a Craigslist ad I have. He was telling me that he had just bought 2 new handguns and needed more time to buy my particular item. Heres the fun part. He told me that up to a few months ago he had NEVER considered owning a gun as he is a city dweller like me and not really a sportsman.But after hearing all the noise about the possible restrictions coming up on owning and buying guns he said and I quote” NO ONE IS GONNA TAKE AWAY ANY OF MY FREEDOMS”. Kinda summed it up for me!
OH,BTW,He says he now owns 6 shiny new Freedoms total.At this point in my economic life, I really didn’t need to read this. 259!! Hory Clap! I got to get busy - 200 more to go.
This is why I figure that a good collection of leverguns is ideal. How are you going to demonize a guy who has “cowboy guns?”
And, I need to get some “new freedoms,” too. But by private sale--that way, there’s no paper trail.
Posted by BlueStateSaint
02/08/2009 at 10:12 AM
I’ve got two new and functional firearms in my ‘arsenal’, plus Grandpa’s WW1 Lee-Enfield which needs serious cleaning and a magazine. 3, count ‘em, a three-gun arsenal. I’m way behind Corsair!
Gotta keep up with the Corsairs! 56 to go!
Nicely put Drew.
Almost all of the firearms laws I know of are based on ignorance. The ones about violent felons are ok by me, but that’s about it. Likewise, most of the enforcement of those laws is also based on ignorance. Your article from New Jersey shows the point pretty well.
As a collector in California, I’ve had to learn the CA firearms laws and to be very careful. Enforcement out here makes New Jersey look benign. Cops out here don’t mess around. They will quickly confiscate your firearms and put you in jail on any amount of suspicion that they can imagine.
My former neighbor, a Detective with the Los Angeles Police Department and I got into a discussion involving CA firearms laws and I quickly realized that my neighbor DID NOT KNOW THE CALIFORNIA FIREARMS LAWS! Specifically, She did not know that there was absolutely no requirement for a Japanese WWII, bolt action, Arisaka, acquired in 1962 to be registered. I took some time with reference books and downloads from the California Atty. General’s office to get across the major points. That level of ignorance is scary. Thank G-d she was a good neighbor as well as a good cop. She was willing to learn the law before she put the cuffs on me. Neighbor or not - she was going to enforce the law as she understood/didn’t understand it.
Now on to something interesting. California has a pretty tight “assault weapons” law. There is an interesting exception that legally goes straight through the center of both the Federal and the California AW laws. That is the French made MAS 49/56. About 10 years ago, a quantity of them were imported. It’s gas operated (be careful if you reload), has a 10 shot clip, it’s about the size and weight of an AK, except it has a normal looking wooden stock and it’s chambered in 7.62 NATO. Basically it’s the 10 shot clip plus the normal wooden stock that make it legal here. The importation got covered through some part of the antique and curio section of the Federal regulations. Even Clinton couldn’t stop it.
To be in full compliance with the law, the integral grenade launcher has to be removed (let’s hear a big round of aww). Since that requires recrowning the barrel, groups are typically 2” at 100 yds. with the original sights. All sing: “Reach out, reach out and touch someone, reach out and touch someone...” You remember the commercial.
Be careful of one thing. They were originally chambered in some odd French round, slightly longer than the 7.62 NATO. Some were rechambered by setting the barrel back and some by putting a spacer in the chamber. You don’t want one with a spacer, unless you’re going to set the barrel back yourself. You can generally tell by the forearm. Has it been cut and glued? Shows setback. Completely intact, you’ve got a spacer. Usual warning, have it checked by a competent gunsmith before you do anything.
Enjoy!
Doc
We have one of these guys down the street - I used to wonder about him - now I understand completely (doesn’t help that the people next door are the most in your face Libs in the area).
Where is a lawyer in court simply raising violation of civil rights on that the LEOs did not have a warrent to search on the first (turned out to be flimsy) ‘probable cause’? Sounds like some neighbor who 1) was scared of the weird guy down the road, 2) had an axe to grind with LEOs and took it out on the former LEO, 3) was blowing smoke while he got rid of his ‘borrowed’ items or 4) was a real anti-gun/anti-Second Amendment nut who guessed (rightly so) that an former LEO would have a firearm in the house. . .And from there it blew up into this mess.
Given our current batch of CrapWeasels in Congress and The One (tm) in the WH - I can see where these survivalists/isolationists/’weird’ neighbors come from. Common sense people - he lives alone on a farm far from neighbors/town and was a LEO - how many bad guys with a grudge just might come looking for him after getting out? And whose to say, it hasn’t happened in the past, which is why he has the setup he has. Whose to say he wasn’t just preparing for the ultimate collapse of society that the Generational Theft Act of 2009 and the socialist (I can say it now, Newsweak pronounced that We Are All Socialists Now)in office is inflicting upon America? And lastly - since the articles admitted no stolen items were found, no vast quantities of illegal drug cultivation and/or production were found, and finally no racist literature/afiliation were found - what grounds what-so-ever did they have for the search warrent? A gun - in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey don’t you have the right to produce your license/registration before arrest and seizure? And might that also violate the 4th Amendment? All we have is the LEOs (executing a bogus probable cause ‘investigation’, going nutso on the guy’s gun (on the table,carried) word that he attacked/menaced/assualted them - Wow.
And so it begins.
259 - We are such slackers - I hang my head in shame.
02/07/2009 at 08:18 PM
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