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2010-05-20 Britain

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 If this works out well at all, heck if he's actually sincere, perhaps we should consider drafing Mr. Clegg to run for POTUS in our next election. Now that, y'know, citizenship is no longer a prerequiste to holding the office.

Posted by AzCat 2010-05-20 01:30|| 2010-05-20 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Let us know when you can own guns again.

Or knives.

Or pointy sticks.

Posted by flash91 2010-05-20 10:44|| 2010-05-20 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually flash, I have 16 bore, 12 bore purdey side by sides and a bolt action rifle all legal and processed under section 5 firearms .
Semi autos are section 1 and not for private use, but I have no use for them

Happy hunting old chap

Posted by Granpaw 2010-05-20 11:17|| 2010-05-20 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Update: British government to partially privatize Royal Mail, which sets up a big fight with the government union.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-20 12:25|| 2010-05-20 12:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Granpaw, it's fine if you have no use for a certain type of firearm, but if a law abiding citizen does have a use for a semi auto firearm, they should be able to buy one. Without looking through the safe I own 5 different guns that I wouldn't have the right to in England. That's crazy.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-05-20 14:24|| 2010-05-20 14:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Jefferson, you have the right to own and carry them anywhere you damn well please. Whether or not it's actually legal is an entirely different matter, but that never stopped me when I lived in California.

I'm sure many of our British cousins feel the same way as Robert Heinlein did on this particular issue: I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Posted by Secret Master 2010-05-20 15:38|| 2010-05-20 15:38|| Front Page Top

#7 So Granpaw, I suggest you not be such an smug but oblivious idiot. You've become an utter subject to authority - people like you are the reason England is dying. I am a free citizen, and plan on keeping myself and by extension, my nation, free.

Answer this: what happens when you cannot bring that long arm to bear properly in self defense, and miss the hooligan with your one shot? I'll tell you: he and his thug buddies beat you to death with the butt of your own firearm.

Me? My semi-auto is a handgun, it comes to bear quickly, and if I miss I simply squeeze the trigger another time, up to 13 of them in a row.

Posted by No I am the other Beldar 2010-05-20 16:39|| 2010-05-20 16:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Bolt actions were the primary infantry weapons in both WW1 and 2. Plenty of people got killed. It really depends on what your opponent has and AFAIK, English criminals are not going off firing Tec-9s gangsta stylee. And a shotgun is still the best home defense weapon. Don't like that it is only double barreled? Buy two.

That said, every gun I own would be illegal in England. I don't plan on losing because of firepower issues.

Posted by ed 2010-05-20 16:55|| 2010-05-20 16:55|| Front Page Top

#9 How is it that a rare positive article about Britain gets hijacked by snarling gun owners? How about some praise instead.

Posted by gromky 2010-05-20 17:00|| 2010-05-20 17:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Sorry about that. We're prone to snarling. The fault lies not in Britain, but in ourselves.

Posted by Secret Master 2010-05-20 18:07|| 2010-05-20 18:07|| Front Page Top

#11 This would be wonderful for two reasons:

1) The British people deserve it, and

2) Should they succeed, sales of Depends would spike in DC.

I think of that as a win/win.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-05-20 19:30|| 2010-05-20 19:30|| Front Page Top

#12 armbritain.com/index.php?topic=18.0
So to be truly 'free', I would have to vote in the BNP? I prefer to keep my own politics and to stock up on cross-bow bolts and pig-fat to dip them in. There is no (gun)-culture in the UK, and trying to learn it now is about three generations too late. Anyway, I got the freedom to get the sh!t taxed outa me, what more do I need?

Posted by Rhodesiafever 2010-05-20 22:00|| 2010-05-20 22:00|| Front Page Top

#13 FTA, don't even think of getting a stun-gun or a Taser, could cost you five years. Harsh. Although, I do like the idea of a flare/signal/distress gun, and semi-auto air power seems to be allowed (within limits). Treat 'em like children and they will act like children.
www.policeoracle.com/forum/printer_friendly_posts.asp?TID=8968

Posted by Rhodesiafever 2010-05-20 22:37|| 2010-05-20 22:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Snarling? Eh. I think the short sighted comments about "I dont need a semiauto" was pretty stupid. Especially for a "granpaw" that should know better than trust in authority after all the recent abuses in England.

True some of the responses aren't exactly tactful, but this is RANTburg.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-05-20 22:42|| 2010-05-20 22:42|| Front Page Top

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