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Warbler

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#1115476
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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TM2YC said:

A former(?) forum-member proudly claimed in this very thread that he shed a tear of joy at his little daughter’s gun use and collection of weapons. Some of us were horrified no doubt but I think it’d be fair to say ALL of us would be horrified if he’d proudly declared that his young kid was already a full-blown alcoholic after he’d started her on Absinthe at an early age (we’d probably hope he was arrested). Why is a relatively (I want to emphasise that word) harmless thing like alcohol treated as worse in the eyes of the law than weapons designed specifically for the mass slaughter of human beings?

I think the forum member you refer to is Ferris. He is still a forum member here(he hasn’t been banned or anything), he has hasn’t posted for a while. Yes, his daughter is allowed to use guns. But to be fair, I think he made clear that she was only allowed to use guns while he was there(or perhaps the mother or other responsible adult) using reasonable gun safety, which I think he takes seriously. I think he made clear the girl was not allowed unsupervised access to guns.

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#1115255
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Ban bump stocks and anything else that can turn a semi-auto rifle into a full auto rifle. Totally ban full auto rifles. Ban all semi auto rifles that are too easy to convert to full auto.

One thing I will say that that we need to be more sensible with these bans. From what I’ve learned, the last time “assault rifles” were banned, we ended up banning rifles on look rather than on function. Lets not make that mistake this time. Lets make sure we understand what we are talking about when we past gun control laws.

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#1114293
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Tyrphanax said:

Warbler said:

ironically, when discussing gun control in the past, I brought my concern about bump stocks. Unfortunately, my concern was justified. I would be curious what Ferris would say.

You were actually the first person I thought of when I saw this video, because I remember you asking me what I thought of bump fire stocks.

The gun community consensus is that a “Gat Crank” was used here (basically a little crank handle you attach to your trigger guard and crank like “ye olde gatlinge gune” in order to actuate the trigger faster than your finger likely could [but not as fast or as smoothly as an actual automatic weapon]), but the basic objective remains the same: simulate automatic fire with a semi-automatic weapon for fun at the range.

It annoyed me because A. I knew this was going to happen, and B. I hate things like that because the gun rights issue is contentious enough without people deliberately going in and stretching the rules and trying to see what they can get away with in a legal grey area, because then we end up in this kind of situation where something has to give and a lot of the time what gives are our rights.

Hopefully we see a nice ATF ban on Gat Cranks and Bump Fire Stocks and that’s the end of it. Good riddance.

Welcome back, btw.

JEDIT: Just looked at the pictures of the guns and it actually looks like a bump fire stock rather than a Gat Crank. Whoops.

I agree both Gat Cranks and bump fire stocks should be banned.