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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. That's fair. So why exactly do you think that 18-22 year olds should be denied constitutional rights, yet still be required to register for the draft? What other constitutional rights can they be denied? There is a well established federal legislative history of disallowing FFL holders from selling certain guns, handguns specifically, to them, but still allowing private transfers. Now, this is relevant because that was allowed because it was not believed that it was constitutional to completely deny them the right to acquire a handgun. However with the expansion of the commerce clause, it was believed to be justified to deny them FFL transfers. Getting further into legislative history, when the NFA of 1934 was being debated in congress, they originally wanted to include handguns in the list of firearms that would be subject to the law. However, they felt this would not pass constitutional muster and dropped them so that it would not risk SCOTUS striking the whole thing down. At the time, the commerce clause had not been expanded, so it was passed under Congress's authority to levy taxes. Of course, this was before the second amendment had been incorporated under the fourteenth amendment to the states, something which has not been challenged given that that only happened in 2010. Given the fate of other laws that tax civil rights which have been incorporated under the fourteenth amendment, it could very well be that the transfer tax goes bye bye as well. Anyhow, that's a lot of words to say that there is a long legislative history of allowing certain restrictions, but not outright bans, on certain firearms for certain people who have not been denied their rights through due process. There have been lower court cases, and the results are fairly predictable if you follow that stuff, but there is no real established law. The real question is do you want to establish it with the current court? Maybe the better tactic would be to disallow those transfers through FFL's while still allowing private transfers. You could even throw in a universal background check system for all private transfers that would be akin to the one Senator Coburn proposed in 2013, except run by the state instead of the federal government. If you have to, make it optional for five years to test it out and get enough votes to pass and then see what the results are before trying to make it mandatory. I would suspect that a system like that would be used for the vast majority of private transfers between strangers. Also, write better bills. Bozo's Mini-14's only saving grace, beyond it's terrible accuracy, is that it is to expensive for angsty teen incels. But something like this: Or this: Is not likely at all to be used in a mass shooting event. Yet the bill discussed previously would ban them. And probably also an freaking Ruger 10/22, which is the most popular and practical .22 long rifle guns made in the modern era. For real, write better bills that are actually well thought out instead of coming up with some crap that couldn't even pass a cursory review by someone knowledgeable on the subject and is likely to get struck down in the courts.
  2. Cliffs notes? That's seems like a lot of random stuff to look up just to understand what you are saying.
  3. *Fightlite lower. Didn't notice that autocorrect changed it until just now.
  4. What about an AR built on a fighting lower?
  5. Moving to Mexico only works if you already have a reliable source of income. There is a reason lots of them choose to come here despite the challenges that come with that. Don't get me wrong, I love Mexico. There are lots of awesome places down there that most Americans will never even hear about, but if you look at the cost of property and goods that aren't domestically produced down there and then look at what the average income level is in the heartland of Mexico, things can get pretty tough for the average Mexican who wasn't born into privilege.
  6. Discussing measures that could or could not be effective is one thing in this thread, but posting cloak roomy memes is another entirely. There are plenty of threads for that stuff. But since you mentioned children, I have noticed that @Brisketexan never responded to the fact that his assertion about guns being the number one cause of death for children being misinfomation. It's ok to admit that you were suckered in by an emotionally charged headline and didn't take the time to properly vet the claims. Ill even admit that I got the percentages I cited from a reddit thread and haven't checked them out for myself yet. We all, well most of us, have day jobs and families and can't spend every waking hour chasing down exactly what is and isn't fact, which is one of the big reasons why misinformation can be so dangerous. If I get some time, I'll try and confirm that those numbers are accurate, but between work, select soccer for the oldest, coaching three year old soccer for the middle, and trying to reign in the youngest who apparently just wants to watch the world burn, I've already got a pretty busy schedule.
  7. RIP MAC. He always told a good story on here. I'll have to read some of his other stuff in the next few days.
  8. Red flag laws will also lead to fewer people seeking out treatment for mental health.
  9. Pulled the memory card from my camera this weekend and went through all the pics on it. By the look of things, this guy probably sired half the fawns that hit the ground this spring.
  10. QC has probably been checking to make sure they fire fire without pulling the trigger, just like the drawings say to make them.
  11. That's not QC, that's engineering.
  12. Yeah, sane kind of issues for me. It's dang near impossible to go back and correct a word that autocorrect changed and clicking on links or other buttons takes several tries before it finally works. No issues on any other sites.
  13. .22 long rifle is .223 diameter, so a Ruger 10/22 is illegal for those under 21 according to this bill. It's a poorly written bill designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. If they wanted to do it proper, they would specify centerfire rifles. It also means that several classic hunting rifles such as the Remington 7400 or Browning BAR are illegal for those under 21, despite not being at all practical for Nefarious means. So my inheriting my great grandfather's hunting rifle at the age of six would have been illegal under it. If they wanted to do it proper, they could, but they instead chose to be lazy.
  14. Just so you know, the study that claimed that the number one cause of death for "children" in the US is firearms included 18 and 19 year olds in in their definition of children. Why? Because they accounted for 47% of the deaths they cited. 75% of the deaths were ages 16-19. When somebody says that the leading cause of death for kids in the US is guns, the majority of people are not thinking of those age ranges. But it is an effective disinformation strategy designed to elicit an emotional response based not on facts, but what people imagine those facts to be based on a quick reading of the headline. Oh, and they also excluded children under 1, because they aren't really people yet and including them would muck up their disinformation campaign.
  15. It's funny how you think that they were all functionally idiots and couldn't look at the rapidly developing industrial revolution and think maybe that it would affect arms as well.
  16. Easy there, Grand Wizard.
  17. Since we are talking sensible regulations, let's go ahead and name a politician who advocates for them so that the folks here can vote for them. To me, the list looks like a lot of nothing. So my ballot will be cast with a lot of nothing. Unless you can name a politician or party that actually supports sensible regulations, you are doing nothing but pissing in the wind. But I agree with Bozo to an extent, and it is almost enough to push me to run for office just to try to add some sensibility to things.
  18. In the Ass: Passion of the Christ I'm not catholic, but I'm going to confession now.
  19. Sally makes a pretty hot trashy brunette waitress. The kind that may require a doctor's visit later, but you take what you can get out in flat land territory.
  20. Aliens is more of a horror movie to me, but it is enough of a crossover that I'll allow it. You're opinion is still wrong, unless you misspelled Die Hard, but I'll allow it.
  21. But the point of the story is that God gives you exactly what you need. And don't whine
  22. We don't have cheater pipes. Only leverage extension devices.
  23. Here's an example of something I consider misguided. There was an incident several years ago where a loader stepped off one of the platforms to access the top of a railcar while doing something else and fell between two cars that another person happened to be moving down at the time. He luckily rolled out of the way of the moving rail cars in time to avoid becoming an amputee or worse. One of the solutions that management thought up was to disallow stepping between two railcars while on top of them, despite the fact that there is a special platform made for that very thing and the incident in question had nothing to do with that. So now loaders have to instead go down a set of stairs to the base of the rail car they were on and then up another set of stairs to the one right next to it instead of simply stepping across the platforms made for that very thing. On the surface, this seems like a reasonable regulation, but consider that slips, trips, and falls are usually one of the top causes of industrial accidents. There has never been an incident of someone missing that step between cars, yet every year there are incidents involving someone having a slip trip or fall while traversing elevation changes, often involving stairs. And a fall down a catwalk stair is not going to be a pretty one. Then you add to the fact that there are often times when everything is happening at once just due to the chance of when cars fill up, etc. and the loader is scrambling and basically having to run up and down these stairs to avoid a loss of primary containment and you really amplify the chance of an incident. Is stepping across the platform on top of two rail cars risk free? Of course not. But is causing the loader to have to run up and down a bunch of stairs to avoid casually stepping across two cars safer? Probably not.
  24. Just Google "it's getting hot in here"
  25. Yeah, as a big second amendment proponent myself I read those and thought they all sounded perfectly reasonable at face value, so there must have been some sort of poison pill language in them to cause them to be shot down. Then I remembered this is the modern republican party we are dealing with... It is odd how many folks here want so desperately to disarm poor people (the practical outcome of the policy positions the propose), yet somehow hope that there will be some sort of populist uprising when the pubs toss out the Harris County election results.
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