so, they ban semi auto pistols

tac · Oct 10, 2015

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tac

waglockfan · Oct 10, 2015

Easy response. We take them out of office.

Oathkeeper1775 · Oct 10, 2015

tac said:
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tac

= Will NOT Comply

dobeman · Oct 10, 2015

tac said:
Well, I have to just put my oar in here - in the s/a-v-revolver fight, anyhow, since I'm only a part-time resident of Oregon. Before the UK mainland handgun ban in 1997/8, I had what was probably the largest private collection of Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolvers outside the USA. Yessir, there wasn't a Model 29 that I didn't have - that's forty-seven of them at that time. Not a single stainless model, though - to me that would be like seeing a stainless Trapdoor...it just ain't right somehow. I had three of them Glock things, too - for the laff, really - after all, who could take a thing like that seriously? Part plastic and part tin, and looking like it had been designed by Stevie Wonder, it nevertheless impressed the heck out of me, but not a thing of beauty, for sure. I had M1911s, and Lahti, Husqvarnas, Radoms, Lugers,, and seven SIGs, too, including the P210 and all its spiffy interchangeable barrel/calibres. I had a Redhawk that I won in a raffle, and a Super Redhawk that I payed for.

So, lots of each kind of handgun - a hundred and eighteen in all.

But my first love was always the revolver, preferably, a BIG revolver. If I'd ever had to face down a BG with one, he would have been lookin' at a hole the size of the New Holland tunnel, flanked by big copper things with big holes in them. and he knew, deep down in his heart, them things sure were going to leave a bruise.

Where I live, even with the way things are going now, carrying any kind of a handgun for self-protection just ain't going to happen - in fact, it's been gone so long that there is hardly anybody under the age of ninety who would recall that it could ever happen.

Why?

Simple. The UK has NO written Constitution, and certainly no Declaration of Independence. So , no written constitution, and therefore no 'Right' to keep and bear arms.

Like YOU do.

You can go an see the documents themselves, hell, if you are VERY privileged, you can even TOUCH them, and see those sacred signatures, put there by men who knew exactly what they were doing in putting their names to it . They were signing their own death warrants if it all went belly up, or the greatest piece of legislature ever put on paper if it went right.

Well, it went right, as we all know, and, as documents occasionally do, the Constitution got amended a few times, and the minute that the ink was dry on the First amendment, the Second Amendment was being drafted into reality.

In a situation where there was a clear and present danger to the fragile newborn nation, it was decided that every man should have the right to bear arms, to form a militia. And from what part of the population does the militia come?

The People.

All of you.

The United States is no longer a 'fragile newborn' looking over its shoulder, but the threat is still very real, and sadly, it appears to be emanating from within the population. For some reason that I've never been able to figure out, it seems that there are people in the highest, most trusted elements of your own government who desperately need to see the People disarmed. YOU know who they are. Hell, even I know who they are, but there is a difference between us.

You can do something about it, and all I can do is stand and watch. YOU have a vote in the democratic process that makes the USA one of the greatest nations on this planet. China, with its gigantic population, has no word for democracy in any of its many languages, Russia has twenty million tons of illegal guns but not an ounce of democracy, in spite of what they say.

It's all up to you.

Rant over.

tac

it's not that recent really. Some of the early American leaders started pushing really hard for a central bank like mother England. That was a back and forth battle for a while and the central bankers won. Behind the scenes, to me it's clear who runs things. But this mini rant isn't about revolvers, which I love. wheel on!

Medic! · Oct 10, 2015

Gee. I'm not sure?

I guess what ever gun the government trust's me with? :s0140:

Member 3687 · Oct 12, 2015

I was told years ago by an older gentleman "when you feel it's time to bury your guns maybe it's time to use them". At the time there was talk about a possible total ban that was being proposed but any ban would lead to a total ban. Just food for thought.

I would probably go for any one of the 9mm revolvers as I own a bit of 9 ammo but I would probably carry 2 to 3 of them to make up for the loss of mag capacity.