Wat's Guns-N-Stuff Thread

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Call the waaambulance, Laz. Make your own future the boomers did. You clowns want everything done for you.

Um, I AM a "boomer", and white to boot. And I enjoyed all the benefits of institutional racism (unknown to / unconsidered by me at the time) that gave me the motivation to believe that social and economic upward mobility was a real possibility for me: I then went after it and achieved it. (Work ethic?)

I just acknowledge reality.

Hope that ^ helps.

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My millennial does amazingly well for himself, and he works his ass off. I like to think I had something to do with modeling some behaviors.



My two millennial kids are doing great too. Both in their 30s, married with kids, good careers, own their own homes, following the proven formula for personal and financial success. Teach your children.
 
My two millennial kids are doing great too. Both in their 30s, married with kids, good careers, own their own homes, following the proven formula for personal and financial success. Teach your children.


We had some honest chats as he was growing up. His mother was always more of the "do as I say" crowd, and I always explained the why of things. He still asks me stuff.


And he's one Hell of a shot with a service rifle.
 
We had some honest chats as he was growing up. His mother was always more of the "do as I say" crowd, and I always explained the why of things. He still asks me stuff.


And he's one Hell of a shot with a service rifle.

In a bit of a role reversal, I was on the receiving end of some pretty harsh discipline when my son came home for a visit after he finished USMC OCS. Ripped me a new one for my inadequate AR15 cleaning.
 
Um, I AM a "boomer", and white to boot. And I enjoyed all the benefits of institutional racism (unknown to / unconsidered by me at the time) that gave me the motivation to believe that social and economic upward mobility was a real possibility for me: I then went after it and achieved it. (Work ethic?)

I just acknowledge reality.

Hope that ^ helps.

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Then don't bother me, son. I don't need any help from you especially.
 
Then don't bother me, son. I don't need any help from you especially.

You were informed / educated..

You’re obviously free to do what you will with the information.

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I did notice that no one disputed the information in / truth of my comments

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Continuing from some things said yesterday:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968


House Resolution 17735, known as the Gun Control Act, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 22, 1968[10] banning mail order sales of rifles and shotguns and prohibiting most felons, drug users and people found mentally incompetent from buying guns.
At the hearings NRA Executive Vice-President Franklin Orth supported a ban on mail-order sales, stating, "We do not think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.
At the time of its passage in 1968, NRA executive vice president Franklin Orth wrote in American Rifleman that "the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with"

And this, of which I had no notion:
In his remarks upon signing the act in October 1968, Johnson said:

Congress adopted most of our recommendations. But this bill—as big as this bill is—still falls short, because we just could not get the Congress to carry out the requests we made of them. I asked for the national registration of all guns and the licensing of those who carry those guns. For the fact of life is that there are over 160 million guns in this country—more firearms than families. If guns are to be kept out of the hands of the criminal, out of the hands of the insane, and out of the hands of the irresponsible, then we just must have licensing. If the criminal with a gun is to be tracked down quickly, then we must have registration in this country. The voices that blocked these safeguards were not the voices of an aroused nation. They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby, that has prevailed for the moment in an election year.
 
We had some honest chats as he was growing up. His mother was always more of the "do as I say" crowd, and I always explained the why of things. He still asks me stuff.


And he's one Hell of a shot with a service rifle.
Didya happen to breast feed him too? Was his mother also lacking in that department? You consistently selfish ass.
 
Continuing from some things said yesterday:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968


House Resolution 17735, known as the Gun Control Act, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 22, 1968[10] banning mail order sales of rifles and shotguns and prohibiting most felons, drug users and people found mentally incompetent from buying guns.
At the hearings NRA Executive Vice-President Franklin Orth supported a ban on mail-order sales, stating, "We do not think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.
At the time of its passage in 1968, NRA executive vice president Franklin Orth wrote in American Rifleman that "the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with"

And this, of which I had no notion:
In his remarks upon signing the act in October 1968, Johnson said:

Congress adopted most of our recommendations. But this bill—as big as this bill is—still falls short, because we just could not get the Congress to carry out the requests we made of them. I asked for the national registration of all guns and the licensing of those who carry those guns. For the fact of life is that there are over 160 million guns in this country—more firearms than families. If guns are to be kept out of the hands of the criminal, out of the hands of the insane, and out of the hands of the irresponsible, then we just must have licensing. If the criminal with a gun is to be tracked down quickly, then we must have registration in this country. The voices that blocked these safeguards were not the voices of an aroused nation. They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby, that has prevailed for the moment in an election year.
And that is precisely the point in time that a fellow by the name of Harlan Carter started his effort to take over the NRA. There was a tremendous amount of infighting along the way but he finally got control in 1977. That was where the emphasis changed.
 
Honestly? I don't give a fuck who anyone votes for. The "winners" will get what they deserve and the "whinger/losers" will piss-n-moan about it.


I still have to pay a visit to see Patrick Henry's grave to check to see if they have installed a tachometer on him yet.
 
Interesting . . . .


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlon_Carter


Harlon Bronson Carter (August 10, 1913 – November 19, 1991) was an American advocate for gun rights and a leader of the National Rifle Association.[1] Carter's 1977 election as NRA Executive Vice President marked a turning point for the organization.[2] During his tenure, from 1977 to 1985, he shifted the organization's focus from promoting marksmanship and sports shooting towards strident advocacy for less restrictive gun laws. Under Carter's leadership, the NRA became less compromising on gun rights issues.[3] It also tripled its membership and gained considerable political influence.[4][5]

When Carter was 17 years old, he shot and killed 15-year-old Ramón Casiano. Though Carter was convicted of Casiano's murder, this conviction was later overturned on a technicality, and the incident was not generally known during most of Carter's leadership of the NRA, but rose to greater prominence and infamy later.



 
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