Maryland lawmakers make gun control a session priority

[Kyle]

after I saw Gilligan's post I looked it up and it's true - it's handguns that are doing most of the dirty work. I still don't like automatic weapons being easily available, never will. When I did my firearms training with John Pepper back in the 90's (He invented the Pepper Pop-up Target in 1978) after we completed the safety session he had me fire a 22 revolver first then took me though firing each next level in firepower until we got to the Glock 45 I brought there with me. After that he had me fire a shotgun OMG I almost fell backward on my behind because I only weighed 106 lbs at the time at 5' tall. I was properly trained on evasive tactics and how to defend myself if cornered. I'd love to repeat that training again but at my age I can't crawl around on the ground with ease like I used to LOL

Good for you. Everyone should seek out some kind of training like that.

Getting back to the AR part of the interchange, one of the reasons that platform is so popular is it's simplicity.

Unlike many traditional firearms, it's easy to take down, easy to clean and easy to repair even for a novice. Its about the most user friendly rifle built, and has been around since the 1960s.

It's not a new thing. At least not to anyone but the prohibition crowd that fear and hate them all.

 

[Kyle]

well I can't do a lot of fighting back with a 380 and about as big as my hand can handle

Both Ruger and Sig make smaller 9s that pack more punch than 380 but are good in smaller hands.

 

[black dog]

I still don't think people need access to automatic weapons but as Gilligan pointed out those are not the weapons people are using most of the time.

Why???
Its an inanimate object like cars, rocks, sticks, knives. They like firearms dont kill anyone, they cant think or have feelings, humans have those. People kill people.

Think about the lives saved on a daily basis with firearms.

 

[spr1975wshs]

well I can't do a lot of fighting back with a 380 and about as big as my hand can handle

There are modern, commercially loaded, defensive loads that do help the .380 to be more effective.

 

[black dog]

after I saw Gilligan's post I looked it up and it's true - it's handguns that are doing most of the dirty work. I still don't like automatic weapons being easily available, never will. When I did my firearms training with John Pepper back in the 90's (He invented the Pepper Pop-up Target in 1978) after we completed the safety session he had me fire a 22 revolver first then took me though firing each next level in firepower until we got to the Glock 45 I brought there with me. After that he had me fire a shotgun OMG I almost fell backward on my behind because I only weighed 106 lbs at the time at 5' tall. I was properly trained on evasive tactics and how to defend myself if cornered. I'd love to repeat that training again but at my age I can't crawl around on the ground with ease like I used to LOL

So its ok for you to have a automatic firearm???
I got it now....
Maybe you should trade that High Capacity
( because no one needs those ) Glock in for a single shot 45 acp.

 

[glhs837]

And of course, just demonstrating the ability and willingness to fight back is half the battle.

 

[spr1975wshs]

I do have these in reserve around the house.

About half the collection. I fought fully armored, full contact medieval style sport fighting for over 1/4 century.

 

[Kyle]

Those are Assault Weapons that only His Majesty The King and Appointed Knights should have.

 

[Kyle]

Lady of the Lake-- her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft X-Caliber from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Kyle, was to carry X-Caliber.

 

[ArkRescue]

Ahhhh. Your vast knowledge of history is lacking.
Read a bit and get back to us.
Thank you Montgomery Co Schools.

1. Attila The Hun ...
2. Caligula ...
3. Ivan The Terrible...
4. Timur...
5. Vlad The Impaler...

meanie

 

[spr1975wshs]

Those are Assault Weapons that only His Majesty The King and Appointed Knights should have.

Well, I am a titled Lord in the medieval society to which I belong, and am a Squire to a Knight I respect, who is a Baron.

 

[ArkRescue]

So its ok for you to have a automatic firearm???
I got it now....
Maybe you should trade that High Capacity
( because no one needs those ) Glock in for a single shot 45 acp.

The Glock was my Ex-Hubby's choice for ME but it was too big for MY hand (fit his well hmmm) so after I got rid of him I sold it.

 

[Bonehead]

Glock haters grrrrrrr.....

 

[Kyle]

Glock haters grrrrrrr.....

I proudly stand guilty.

 

[Bonehead]

They do what they are supposed to do, rain, sleet, snow, mud, under water what more do you want ? Is it the lack of an external manual safety ? Don't the three internal safeties count ?

 

[spr1975wshs]

They do what they are supposed to do, rain, sleet, snow, mud, under water what more do you want ? Is it the lack of an external manual safety ? Don't the three internal safeties count ?

Reliable is good, but never have had an occasion to fire a Glock.

 

[Merlin99]

For your consideration ...
I wouldn't call them that. Do we call the difference in horse looking animals, races? Appaloosa vs zebra, different race of horse? Nope. We call them a set of different equine species. I'm not sure why the term 'race' was used/invented to delineate the differences in humans. Doubt anthropologists coined that term.

This sounds like exactly what I was taught and apparently it was from a history class and not a science class. BTW Judge Tucker was an Antebellum judge who freed three generations of Indian women because their features were Mongoloid and not Negroid.

I mean the view of race espoused by Judge Saint George Tucker, and still popular today, that there exist natural, physical divisions among humans that are hereditary, reflected in morphology, and roughly but correctly captured by terms like Black, White, and Asian (or Negroid, Caucasoid, and Mongoloid).
Under this view, one's ancestors and epidermis ineluctably determine membership in a genetically defined racial group. The connection between human physiognomy and racial status is concrete; in Judge Tucker's words, every individual's race has been "stampt" by nature.

 

[Merlin99]

Ahhhh. Your vast knowledge of history is lacking.
Read a bit and get back to us.
Thank you Montgomery Co Schools.

1. Attila The Hun ...
2. Caligula ...
3. Ivan The Terrible...
4. Timur...
5. Vlad The Impaler...

You're ignoring the ""in seconds" part. Yes Atilla could kill a hundred people in seconds, but that would be by sending a hundred guys with knives and swords to do it.

 

[spr1975wshs]

You're ignoring the ""in seconds" part. Yes Atilla could kill a hundred people in seconds, but that would be by sending a hundred guys with knives and swords to do it.

The Ancients also had this little thing called Greek Fire...

 

[stgislander]

That and good people outnumbering the bad people on a regular basis.

And putting people who commit crimes with guns away for a VERY long time.