To illustrate your example, from what I understand the firearm you picture is considered a "pistol" or equal in Canada? Anything under 20" Barrel I think?
In the USA, anything with a stock is a rifle at 16" or a short barrel rifle at less than 16", and a SBR is a special tax stamp and long wait.
Meanwhile, this is a pistol, but if I put the end against my shoulder I am illegally repurposing the non-stock and creating an illegal SBR. As long as only my cheek is on it, we're cool.
"I only feel two things Gary, nothing, and nothingness."
On sale at Brownells for $199, -$20 and free shipping for coupon, so it's under $200 and therefor not plural, so HA!
Black friday sale on the Pantheon kit, $139 at Primary Arms. Barrel was also on sale, and the entire thing fits into a cooler bag.Also, takedowns.... pfffft.
Assembling and test-firing done, I am now bored with it, so to the back of the safe it goes. Next projects are the 80%'s!
Try chambering some 300blackout in your plastic fantastic and see how it goes :-p
(On another note, why is the Bren and other new rifles so expensive, don't they realize they're competing with $700 AR's...)
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And another project I finished and shelved, technically it's not a shotgun, it's just a "firearm", because legal definitions:
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.223/5.56 is too light for many types of hunting, but varmint (including coyote) it's popular, and the AR platform offers up many different calibers that are acceptable for hunting. (7.62X39, 300blackout, 6.5, 6.8, whatever other random things exist out there)
Not including the AR10/308 platform or the oddballs (I'd actually like one of the 30.06's, but crazy money).
"I only feel two things Gary, nothing, and nothingness."
I was actually looking at the muzzle flash vs the dubbed sound.
The video is grainy. It's certainly possible based on just the video, but I haven't found any legitimate source claiming it was an automatic. Unless you include the articles that simply refer to it as an "SKS assault rifle", but as we've just been arguing that that term is used incorrectly far too often...
CNN reported it as a semi-automatic. The local news article for the area reported it as a semi-automatic.
If you find conflicting information, please report. But regardless, if it was automatic, it was owned illegally.
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
That's kinda stupid. Why should responsible people be penalized for the failings of others?
If I am a free person, all persons should aim to be such in as much regard as possible, then it does not seem to limit my freedoms where no cause or justification for my actions evidences lack of responsibility. We don't put people in prison for 'pre-crime' or overly restrict the ownership of items that are dangerous when used irresponsibly. Knives, scissors, slings, incendiaries, etc.
I am for the heavy regulation, sanction and penalty upon abuse of many things. Very generally speaking, I do not think the majority of humans can make individual choices that effect the larger whole without consensus thought &/or third party calculation. That is to say, most humans can not be trusted (for example) to make a series of personal decisions which ultimately benefit the natural environment of Earth forever. That goal requires regulation which limits individual choices as evidence reveals an inability to rely on (millions of) responsible choice at the level needed to slow environmental havoc.
However, evidence points to the majority of legal gun owners being able to maintain their firearms responsibly. Which is already heavily regulated by the government.
I agree to an extent- we should as a society work to eliminate the failings that lead to violence via causes of ignorance, fear, poverty, mental health, et cetera. Recreational firearms seem to be well regulated in most states. Legal firearms are not the source of most gun violence and even less so these so-called 'assault weapons of mass destruction'.There's something seriously wrong with a society in which people feel the NEED to own a gun to feel safe, and anything recreational should be properly managed and controlled.
Illegal guns, which people get regardless of the law, are the implement of most gun violence in the US. Less than 2% of gun crimes are committed with legally owned firearms. Over 80% of convicted criminals in state prisons for crimes involving firearms gained those firearms from illegal sources.
We, the US, have a culture problem in economically poor and disenfranchised areas. The solution is education and cooperation. Not legal and responsible gun ownership.