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2016-09-21 -Land of the Free
Kuntzman: 3% of American adults hold us all hostage
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Posted by badanov 2016-09-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 Cars kill more people than guns. Let's talk to Jay Leno why he needs so many. Here we're talking about a 1 percenter.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-21 07:38||   2016-09-21 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Ditto P2K that was one of my first thoughts too.

Are there any other collectibles that need to be regulated?
How about snow globes or Hummel figures? Tea pots?
Posted by AlanC 2016-09-21 08:43||   2016-09-21 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Be advised - You will pry my Hummel 'Sensitive Hunter' from my cold dead hands.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-21 08:48||   2016-09-21 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 In 2013, 44,000 people died from drug overdoses and these deaths are on the rise. Drug overdose deaths exceeded motor vehicle-related fatalities in 36 states.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-21 08:52||   2016-09-21 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 -but whatever you call them, they have a disproportionate influence over gun policy in this country.

And yet this douchebag provides absolutely zero documentation to substantiate this claim. (Hint: because there is none)

Posted by DepotGuy  2016-09-21 10:01||   2016-09-21 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 ...they have a disproportionate influence over gun policy in this country.

The people who care most about a subject always have a disproportionate influence over it; for some decades they were at a disadvantage to the equally passionate anti-gun crowd, but that crowd has shrunk dramatically as liberals have increasingly found reasons to invest in their first gun.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-09-21 10:27||   2016-09-21 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 When I read the headline, I thought this was going to be about trannies.
Posted by charger 2016-09-21 10:31||   2016-09-21 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 I like the way they count the guns as if it is each gun that votes and not the owners (or non-owners who are still pro-2nd ammendment.)

Clever twisted logic that probably works on the liberals. I bet this stat gets added to hundreds of coffee conversations over the next week.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-21 11:08||   2016-09-21 11:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Problems with the new Harvard-Northeastern Gun Survey

Because harvard is useless.
Posted by newc 2016-09-21 11:09||   2016-09-21 11:09|| Front Page Top

#10 #4In 2013, 44,000 people died from drug overdoses and these deaths are on the rise. Drug overdose deaths exceeded motor vehicle-related fatalities in 36 states. Posted by JohnQC

Bingo. But, but, but we NEED more methadone clinics and suboxone clinics to ruin our communities... And less enforcement on the Mexican border in order to keep the prices low on the poison crossing our borders...in order to muddle the heads of the D voters. If a few die from OD - well then that is the Police's fault... Sigh...
Posted by Tennessee 2016-09-21 11:10||   2016-09-21 11:10|| Front Page Top

#11 I guess I'm a 1%er. I have more than 17.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-09-21 11:58||   2016-09-21 11:58|| Front Page Top

#12 It's NYDN - by posting here you likely doubled its audience
Posted by Frank G 2016-09-21 12:50||   2016-09-21 12:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Accurate name.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-09-21 12:56||   2016-09-21 12:56|| Front Page Top

#14 There is a lot wrong with this.

First, the study: how was this data obtained? Did we do a survey? Get ahold of purchase records? Does the count include air rifles? How?

A sportsman, with the money and proper storage space, will get to 17 quite quickly. A collector may get to 17 just doing History and Evolution of the M-1.

Then, someone who has that many firearms and that much political influence isn't holding up gas stations. Much more influential is the out of money meth head with a ghetto banger - all of which is illegal, unlike the gun collector.

Oooohhh, Mrs. Kuntzman, AR-15 felt like a bazooka in her mouth, felt like a cannon on her rear, caught the PTSD. Smelled of sulfur and brimstone, have her irritable bowels.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-09-21 13:03||   2016-09-21 13:03|| Front Page Top

#15 For your amusement:

Our first encounter with Mr. Kuntzman

Our second encounter with dear Mr. Kuntzman -- he really is irresistible.

And between times the owner of the gun shop where our hero played with guns responded. Rantburg won't let me add a third link to my comment, but it is available in the second encounter if you want to read it.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-09-21 13:43||   2016-09-21 13:43|| Front Page Top

#16 I'd like a nice air rifle. Say, like one of the Lewis and Clark walkabout types (Girardoni). A better air reservoir would not be refused. But (on topic) if anyone asked me if I had any firearms, I would walk away.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-09-21 14:33||   2016-09-21 14:33|| Front Page Top

#17  K ---> C & z?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-21 14:38||   2016-09-21 14:38|| Front Page Top

#18 Problems with the new Harvard-Northeastern Gun Survey

Saved for future discussions on the subject. Thank you, newc.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-09-21 14:58||   2016-09-21 14:58|| Front Page Top

#19 Whiskey Mike, there are some real nice Pre-Charged Pneumatic Air Rifles out there. AirForce Big Bore Texan claims a .45 @ 1000ft/s. Probably want an air compressor or compressed air tank so you are not sitting around the campfire pumping the tank for 6 hours.

And I agree, when talking to strangers the answer is always no. newc's link claims the data was by polling.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-09-21 15:17||   2016-09-21 15:17|| Front Page Top

#20 I can't hang out with Neil Steinberg anymore; he always gets drunk and hits me.
Posted by Gersh Kuntzman 2016-09-21 15:20||   2016-09-21 15:20|| Front Page Top

#21  Blah, blah, blah
More people are killed by cars than guns.
Let's condemn every two+ car family
Posted by Skidmark 2016-09-21 16:48||   2016-09-21 16:48|| Front Page Top

#22 3% of 55 million is 1650000 peeps. 130 million guns divided by 1.65 million peeps is an average of 79 guns. New math?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2016-09-21 17:17||   2016-09-21 17:17|| Front Page Top

#23 Math be hard, BrerRabbit.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2016-09-21 18:07||   2016-09-21 18:07|| Front Page Top

#24 SwksvolFF. Wow I had no idea! Great info. TY sir or madam! Off to look NOW.

And I never respond to polls. Congenital defect I suppose.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-09-21 22:37||   2016-09-21 22:37|| Front Page Top

#25 I looked that beast up. Véry nice. $1700 all up, $1000 bare. Looks like it is worth every penney. And it sounds like it needs a suppressor (also found). Bullet selection is 'limited' but I have a Corbin hydro swaging setup. .458 conical looks like a place to start. Will go longer if I have to. Thank you again.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-09-21 23:18||   2016-09-21 23:18|| Front Page Top

23:18 Whiskey Mike
22:56 Rambler in Virginia
22:44 Crusader
22:39 Crusader
22:37 Whiskey Mike
22:37 Crusader
21:53 Grunter
21:29 trailing wife
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20:49 Rob Crawford
20:39 Procopius2k
19:54 Black Charlie Hupeng3366
19:53 charger
18:39 Pappy
18:39 rjschwarz
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18:24 swksvolFF
18:13 swksvolFF
18:11 SteveS
18:07 Rambler in Virginia
17:34 The peanut gallery
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