Post by Root Beer Baron / Redsky

Bolt, break-open, and single action only!

aug 29, 2025, 4:56 pm • 10 0

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This covers every legitimate need for a firearm - hunting, personal & home defense, sport shooting.

aug 29, 2025, 5:26 pm • 2 0 • view

I don't mind revolvers. This thing where people are buying banana clips out of the parking lot of the civic center to fill up their barely-modified M-16s is buck wild and no real country would let people do it

aug 29, 2025, 5:27 pm • 20 1 • view

Yeah, just like a bright line where you need something other than a trigger pull to chamber the next round.

aug 29, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view

It would help a lot simply to bring back the civilian gun supply to the 1960s.

aug 29, 2025, 5:33 pm • 4 0 • view

see, this guy gets it - the NFA 2.0 I want

aug 29, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view

I don’t like modern firearms but boy am I a sucker for muzzle loaders

aug 29, 2025, 5:49 pm • 1 0 • view

Fair. Throw in an exception for guns that need a ramrod.

aug 29, 2025, 5:53 pm • 2 0 • view

With a bore diameter limit, I don’t think there’s a civilian use for anything bigger than a 20 pound Parrot

aug 29, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view

Speak for yourself--I hunt with grapeshot.

aug 29, 2025, 7:43 pm • 1 0 • view

I wrote this about 5 years ago. I think it's workable, if only our legislators weren't craven cowards.

I was thinking about writing legislation to curb the availability of military style weapons. One stumbling block is the use of the phrase “assault rifle,” a term that has become very politically charged. The 1994 assault weapons ban focused on whether the rifle was equipped with a pistol grip: this led to the introduction of a number of different styles of rifle stocks. Magazine capacity was also addressed, which meant that manufacturers were limited to offering magazines holding no more than ten rounds. There were other provisions, a number of which were cosmetic in nature. Here would be my proposal. It’s quite simple and it has little to do with the look of the weapon. Place controls on (or ban) all autoloading centerfire rifles as well as shotguns that are fitted with a detachable magazine, or an internal magazine holding more than 5 rounds. This would allow for the ownership of sporting rifles with internal box magazines, typically holding about 3 to 5 rounds. Oddities like the Ruger .44 carbine, with its tubular magazine would also be unsanctioned. Autoloading shotguns with detachable box magazines would be restricted, but those with tubular magazines would be permitted. I would also ban folding stocks, as was covered by the previous ban. The status of bolt-action, slide-action, and lever-action rifles would remain unchanged. The ban would have two effects: to combat the horrific mass-shooting incidents that have become such a part of our culture; and also to provide law enforcement teeth to combat the alarming rise of paramilitary organizations within our borders.

aug 29, 2025, 6:01 pm • 2 0 • view