Fellow Hunters & Shooters.
As an Owner of 2 ( Yes!, he said Two!) .50BMG rifles, I can not believe that there are still hunters/shooters that support PBR & Other's stand that "Maybe, if we just >Give-up< the .50 cal guns, the anti's will go away and leave Us alone!?!"
WAKE THE HECK UP PEOPLE!
Today it's ".50 cal Super-guns"
Tomorrow it's "Scoped Sniper Rifles" (Hunting rifles)
The Next day it's "Shoot from the hip with no need to aim Shotguns".
Then it's "Pocket death bringers!"(All Handguns)
Do You really think they will stop with the .50's??
How Foolish!
When John M. Browning designed the .50BMG cartridge, all he did was to scale up the 30.06 cartridge.
Most "Hunting" guns actions were developed for military use first.
Still think that there is no connection between hunting guns & Military guns?
Like the old tail of putting a frog in hot water....He'll jump out. But put him in with the water cold and slowly raise the temperature, and he'll cook.
The Anti's aren't going to be just coming for one type of gun.....
THEY WANT THEM ALL!!
They have learned that they can't just take all of the guns outright, People,
Even PBR, would fight that. But chip away at them a little at a time.......set one group of owners against another.......Use their friends in the media to vitrify guns....and before we know it...POOF!
They are all gone.
There is also the further writing of PBR, in which he stated (something to the effect of
The second amendment rights are ours only because the courts say so.
I Guess >inalienable< means something different to some people.
In my view (And the founding father's) inalienable means......
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate." --Thomas Jefferson
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
---Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia.
Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
---Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788
Do you see "Hunting rifle anywhere in there?
Do you get that the whole idea behind the "Keeping and bearing of arms" is to protect ourselves from a government gone "out of control"?
Before you say "A bunch of yokels with guns can't stand up to Our military"....tell that to the north vietnamese......
Is this not what Our founding fathers were trying to make Us understand?
Do I ever plan on dragging a >41lb< .50BMG rifle around with me through the woods, hunting squirrel's....Heck No!
Does this mean that My .50s serve no purpose?
(A.) No, it does not.
(B.) What does that have to do with me wanting/owning them?
The 2nd isn't about hunting bubba!
If you are ever in Michigan, drop me a line. If it's possible, We can go shoot my wicked, evil("Fricken' LAZER beams!"), scary, , naughty, guns.......You will see that, like most things you hear from the anti's, they are just inanimate objects. Steel and plastic...nothing more.
Tall Shadow