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Old 06-05-2011, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by flacaltenn View Post
As for the huge VOLUME of weapons, the left bears some responsibility for that. My dad bought his first 3 rifles right after the 1968 legislation passed. Was CONVINCED that he had to do it NOW or that right would be gone. Same thing happened when the Congress goes left, Obama gets elected, or whacko legislation is proposed. Gun sales soar. Permit volumes go up. The NRA goes ballastic (pun intended). It's justified by the history of those opposing gun ownership. Maybe THAT's where your buds get that "patriotic duty" crap. It's not the guns that they want, they want to SCREW the political opposition to their ownership! And that -- is patriotic.

If the left would just work to enforce the EXISTING laws, make a better INSTACHECK, encourage training and safety and SHOW that they truly want safer gun ownership, the personal armory sizes would SHRINK within one generation.
Horse feathers, it was a GOP led Congress that passed legislation that forbids the BATF from keeping records on firearms use in the commission of a crime. That way the dealers who are providing them are never identified. Enforcing the laws my arse.
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