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Nnanji -> RE: MD FSA Decision - 2nd Circuit (7/18/2016 12:10:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
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ORIGINAL: Nnanji
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ORIGINAL: Edwird
As to your inquiry regarding reasons not to buy a semi-automatic rifle;
For me personally, as for many millions of others, I've just never felt the need for, and have never had the urge to own a gun of any sort.
I've known gun owners all my life, so it's possible that long ago I might have given some bit of thought to it, but I don't consciously recall it.
In any case I just never gave much thought as to why. People usually give more thought to actions they are contemplating than those they are not.
I, actually, owned guns for probably twenty years before I bought a semi-automatic rifle. I bought one...or so...specifically because the government was going to ban them. Which just shows you how well liberal policies ever work. Come to think of it, until then I didn't even own semi-auto pistols. I had revolvers, bolt and lever action rifles and shotguns. Clinton's (the rapist not the rape justifier and crook) gun ban inspired me to own that which I had never before desired.
I got my first automatic rifle when I was 18, as a grauduation/Christmas present. This was long enough ago that it was legal. My preference is a lever action, and I prefer revolvers. I carry and automatic most of the time because they are easier to conceal but my handgun of preference is a colt sa clone.
As I see it, if someone doesn't want to own a firearm that is their business, I have no right to tell them to get one, just as they have no right to tell me I can't.
Also a revolver, a lever, or a pump, are just as deadly as an automatic, and that harping about automatics is just a smoke screen to go after all guns.
Since the gun ban of '94 my tastes have changed more than once. Sometimes I buy something I'd in the past sworn I'd never own. Now, pretty much I prefer a gun suited to the task. The places I hunt aren't conducive to lever guns, the shots tend to be longer. As you said, concealing a revolver is difficult. But I tell you there is nothing like the feel of a SAA and I hunt with a Freedom Arms. And I consider "nothing like the feel" to be a task which deserves to be suited. Lately I've been doing a lot of long distance shooting and frankly an AR is a 400 yard rifle and not sufficient out to and past 1000 yards. So I've been loading for and shooting diminutive 6.5mm rounds that have bullets with a high BC. (BC said just to be a snob and confuse people but I know you'll understand.)
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