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  1. Ranb

    Hunter Biden Gun Trial

    Federal judge refuses to postpone Hunter Biden’s June 3 trial in gun case https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/hunter-biden-no-trial-delay/index.html Perhaps this trial will help change the attitude towards prosecuting those who lie to buy guns from FFL's? Ranb Moved from USA...
  2. Ranb

    WA Senator arrested for gun possession in HK.

    Washington state senator arrested in Hong Kong for carrying a gun through airport https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/24/asia/hong-kong-us-politician-charged-over-gun-intl-hnk/index.html Yeah, well that was dumb. How often does Hong Kong allow the "oops" defense for gun possession by tourists? As...
  3. Ranb

    Washington State AWB

    Washington state legislature passed an assault weapons ban on April 20th. It is expected to be signed by the governor soon. The bill passed the legislature by a margin of under 60%. It is similar to the Federal AWB94 that sunset in 2004. But instead of two undesirable features on the list to...
  4. Ranb

    Biden to take action on ghost guns.

    Biden is taking action on ghost guns. Some of these issues have been addressed before by the ATF...
    • Ranb
    • Thread
    • gun control issues guns joe biden
    • Replies: 42
    • Forum: USA Politics
  5. Andy_Ross

    First commercial Gauss Rifle available.

    Forgotten Weapons reviews and shoots the ArcFlash Labs' GR-1 Anvil Portable Gauss Rifle It's an alpha sort of prototype. They want people to take them away and play so they can gain experience in how they will be used and what people want from them. eAHKS0nVlL4 Interview with David Wirth of...
  6. Cainkane1

    The AMerican Civil War and its effects on other wars

    The Civil War saw advances in rapid fire weapons. It saw armored ship firing guns at each other and it saw the beginnings of submarine warfare. The CSS Alabama inspired the German Uboat campaign. After the war was over the northern discovered a brand new version of a rapid fire weapon that...
  7. Ranb

    Youtube policy on gun related videos.

    https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7667605?hl=en I've spent a bit of time trying to educate the public on the benefits and limitations of silencers including home made ones. I've gone into detail about federal law and how a person fills out the applications to make (not manufacture) a...
  8. Ranb

    Another inaccurate article on assault weapons.

    Occasionally I read an article online that drives me to contact the reporter that wrote it. This is one of them. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/politics/ar-15-style-guns-ban-1994-2004-background-checks/index.html A portion of it below. Half the article was trash and I told the reporter so...
  9. Ranb

    Suppressed black powder rifle; no tax stamp

    Since 1934 an unlicensed person like me has had to purchase a $200 tax stamp in order to make/buy/register a machine gun, silencer or other NFA firearm. This is one reason why silencers are so expensive in the USA; people want a durable and high quality muffler for their gun. There is a bill...
  10. Ranb

    A bill to reduce gun silencer restrictions

    A bill referred to by some as the Hearing Protection Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/367?r=21 No text available yet. It will bring the USA more in line with those other countries which allow unlicensed civilians to use silencers...
    • Ranb
    • Thread
    • gun issues gun laws guns silencers
    • Replies: 98
    • Forum: USA Politics
  11. Ranb

    More irresponsible reporting on guns.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/ndaa-guns_n_7265184.html The "white paper" is here; http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/CMPInfoPaper11May.pdf The white paper does not describe the transfer process as unregulated as the above article claims. It does accurately claim that the CMP is...
  12. Gawdzilla Sama

    Machine Gun America

    Inside Orlando’s first machine gun theme park Selected quotes from article.
  13. Gawdzilla Sama

    Paris Gun attacks, the original.

    The German built a gun they used to shell Paris during WWI. The gun is represented below and a map of hits (in red) is compared to bomb damage (in black) from. Source.
  14. Ranb

    Smart Gun Symposium

    There will be a Smart Gun Symposium in Seattle on January 28th...
  15. Cl1mh4224rd

    "‘Smart’ Firearm Draws Wrath of the Gun Lobby"

    Source: ‘Smart’ Firearm Draws Wrath of the Gun Lobby (via Slashdot) /me sighs.
  16. Ranb

    Democrat gun control victory in WA Senate

    Prior to July 1, 1994 short barreled shotguns (SBS) and short barreled rifles (SBR) were legal for WA residents to possess; there were no state restrictions. BATFE authorization is required for anyone to possess them but the application is a routine matter and never denied to anyone filling out...
    • Ranb
    • Thread
    • gun control issues gun control laws guns washington issues washington politics
    • Replies: 89
    • Forum: USA Politics
  17. Ranb

    Journalists and guns

    I read this article months ago; about the NRA and firearms. http://www.salon.com/2012/12/30/silencers_the_nras_latest_big_lie/ It was written for Salon by Alexander Zaitchik I wrote a lengthy letter to the author detailing the errors he made in it. To my surprise he replied. It seems that I...
  18. Ranb

    AR-15's used for hunting

    Anderson Cooper just got done with a short segment on AR-15's used for hunting wild hogs that destroy crops. A reporter interviewed a farmer who claims that he has lost up to 18 acres of newly planted seed in two nights at a cost of $9000 to wild hogs that root up the ground. He and other...
  19. Ladewig

    Utah considers new state symbol: will Browning M1911 be the official state firearm?

    link I personally don't have a problem with a state having an official firearm. In this case there is even a tie in to local history - as should be the case in state symbols. The particular timing may be a bit indelicate, but the concept itself is not inappropriate.
  20. T

    Arizona murderer was allowed to buy a Glock

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110111/ap_on_re_us/us_congresswoman_shot_the_gun Jared Loughner had trouble with the law, was rejected by the Army after flunking a drug test and was considered so mentally unstable that he was banned from his college campus, where officials considered him a threat...
    • Thunder
    • Thread
    • gun control gun issues gun laws guns jared loughner
    • Replies: 290
    • Forum: USA Politics
  21. catsmate

    DIY gauss rifle

    A 1.25kJ model in fact. :gear_cool2: http://gizmodo.com/5643971/watch-this-125-kilojoule-diy-coilgun-smash-household-items and http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2010-09/video-diy-coilgun-turns-voltage-projectile-power By comparison a 9mm Parabellum round typically has 5-600J of KE and a 5.56mm...
  22. D

    German woman kills at hospital with automatic weapon

    A woman in Germany today went on a murder spree at a hospital, killing several people. Apparently she injured a police officer as well before being killed by law enforcement. Without looking at any statistics, my impression is that Germany is the runner-up for mass shootings, behind the United...
  23. C

    Hillary's "De Facto Gun Ban" on Import of U.S. M1 & M1 Carbines From S. Korea

    Hillary's "De Facto Gun Ban" on Import of U.S. M1 & M1 Carbines From S. Korea "According to the ATF Guidebook on Firearms Importation, it would normally be legal to import the M1s because they are more than 50 years old, meaning they qualify as "curios or relics." But because the guns were...
  24. Ranb

    Firearm silencer footage

    I have been trying to get the WA law banning silencer use changed for the last several years. Part of the problem is that I keep hearing from my Senators and Representatives that silencers are illegal in the United States. To help clear a few things up, I am putting together a video explaining...
  25. DC

    Where should an Assault rifle be stored?

    Soon the swiss voters have to vote. Do we want our Assault rifles be stored at home like it is now? or do we want to change the law, so the assault rifles would be stored in Army armories. At the moment all people that serve in the army have stored their full automatic assault rifle at home...
    • DC
    • Thread
    • assault rifles gun laws guns switzerland issues switzerland politics
    • Replies: 104
    • Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
  26. Ranb

    Talk about guns on CCSU campus, visit the police.

    http://therecorderonline.net/2009/02/24/professor-called-police-after-student-presentation/ “On October 3, 2008, …..Wahlberg and his group chose to discuss school violence due to recent events such as the Virginia Tech shootings that occurred in 2007. Shortly after his professor, Paula...
  27. Jeff Corey

    Guns are really bad

    I want to state that guns are really bad, because people could get hurt, like in this instructional viddie. Right here. This one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgm9H3hmH1o
  28. stilicho

    Gun Violence Supported In The USA

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/366221_guns08.html Again, a responsible American politician is threatened by gun advocates as innocent people get shot by someone. From the article: "This...is the only time I've heard of some guy with a concealed pistol license doing something like...
  29. The Central Scrutinizer

    Four Shot Outside Teddy Haggard's Church

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/09/church.shooting.ap/index.html Their god didn't protect them. I guess they didn't pray hard enough.
  30. lionking

    Another Mall Shooting

    Another Mall shooting in the US. When are you guys going to ban hand guns, semi-automatics and other firearms designed to shoot people?

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