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| Peace through superior firepower  |
By 1964, the Colt AR-15 was available to the public. We're talking about more than half a century. Guns are not the problem. Our sick society is the problem. Multiculturalism being rammed down our throats is the problem. Leftist, America-hating assholes who want to destroy this nation are the problem. | ||
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Oriental Redneck |
Preach it, sir! Q | |||
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| Ignored facts still exist |
at that time, you could mail order the rifles and there was no 4473, no FFL, or anything else. And it just worked out. ---------------------- Let's Go Brandon! | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
And I could get full auto too, right? ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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A Grateful American |
Some choose to stick band-aids on rabid cancer and pretend they are curing the disease. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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ABSOLUTELY! I was just thinking this same thing after the recent shooting in Florida. The AR-15 has been available WITH 30 round magazines for roughly FIFTY years. Nick "I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that." -Capt. Edward Smith | |||
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| Short. Fat. Bald. Costanzaesque.  |
Cool that you brought this up, just this weekend I was with someone that said these 'modern' rifles are the problem, and I looked at her and said that the AR15 is older than I am and hasn't changed at all in function, just in window dressing. She got puzzled and flustered all at the same time. Then we got back to eating and she never mentioned it again. ___________________________ He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
Thirty round magazines were developed during the Vietnam War. Thirty rounders would have been available to the American public by the 1970s. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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I definitely remember the Colt catalogs in the 70s having several models available. I don't think they were particularly popular at the time, but definitely out there. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Weren’t they at first called “Stoners” after the developer? Or is that term for what was, or became known as M16s. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
Plus...in our society today the media, both "social" and "news" allows and promotes everyone to be a "victim"...totaly side stepping anything that involves personal responsibility for one's own actions...it's always a "thing" that's at fault... Plus they make heros out of villains and villains out of our heroes... Sadly, it's getting worse. ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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I was just saying this to my wife yesterday, now all of a sudden the AR-15 is to blame. Something in society has changed in the last 15-20 years yet the AR-15 has remained the same since the 60's. On a separate note, yesterday I heard someone say when an AR-15 is carried in a police car it is referred to as a "patrol rifle", but when that same rifle is owned by a civilian it is referred to as an "assault rifle". I thought that was a very interesting observation. | |||
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| Official forum SIG Pro enthusiast  |
The left is experiencing a mental health crisis. We have had the AR 15 in our society a long time. Have we had a left that acts openly like this for as long as we’ve had the AR? (It also says “resist 45” on the bottom left)  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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Hop head  |
yep, with paperwork in most states you still can https://www.chesterfieldarmament.com/ | |||
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| Hop head |
Stoner is the designer, and there are some Stoner Rifles, (Cadillac Gage made some really nice ones) they were called by the parent company name as well, Armalite (the design and contract for the .gov went to Colt) https://www.chesterfieldarmament.com/ | |||
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Rule #1: Use enough gun |
What was Lee Harvey Oswald thinking? He could have use an AR and killed everyone in a 3 block radius.  When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. Luke 11:21 "Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush | |||
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Exactly. And the mushroom cloud could have masked his escape, probably in the back of a NRA rented limo.  Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
I know you can still get them. But you can't get a brand new one today which was my point. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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