OT - Republican Bans 50 calibre BMG
 

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:00:54 GMT, Roedy Green
wrote:

Hi Roedy. How are you doing?

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:44:18 -0500, Cliff wrote or
quoted :

Gunner just lost his squirrel gun.

A true conversation in Alabama:

my partner: Do you think it was wise to buy your 15-year old son a
machine gun from the pawn shop?

mother: Of course. It was much cheaper there than at Wal-Mart.

Good story, although it's anything but true. (Neither pawn shops nor
Wal-Marts can legally sell machine guns anywhere in the US and the
mother would need a Class III federal license.)

I find this odd. If mom found son with a jar full of condoms, she
might thing he was a planning to **** somebody. But if she finds a
jar full of machine gun ammunition it never crosses her mind he might
be a planning to shoot someone.

Or much more likely targets, bottles, cans, etc.

--RC


"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.

A bit of reading comprehension will show "20-shot clip magazine"
clearly stated.

Feel free to take it up with folks like Thompson, Remington &
Browning though.

OTOH Is that the type of magazine Gummer needs in his outhouse?
Why?

That article is either in error or uses some kind of local or archaic
terminology. Instead of clip magazine they mean box or straight magazine.

There are "clips" in use with guns, but that are open metal strips. Usually
used for holding rounds while loading rifle magazines. I believe some very
early stationary machine guns used open clips that slid into a kind of
horizontal tray, however that's more the exception than the rule.

GTO(John)