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Gun Control & RKBA

AndyS

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17. First, the NRA is taking care of itself.

Reply to SYFROYH (Reply #16)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 01:08 PM

Oct 2023

Second, the Gun Culture itself is rapidly following.

Third, The gun makers have attracted international attention with 87% of the crime guns in Ontario traced to the US.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-made-gun-exports-shootings-violence-sig-sauer/

Fourth, you are suggesting we do nothing because everything we do causes a short term burst of gun buying.

I reject your approach as nothing more than capitulation.

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Flannel, muddy girl camo and man cards. See the ads used to sell the AR-15. [View all] AndyS Oct 2023 OP

Behind a paywall TexasDem69 Oct 2023 #1

link in thread 2, AndyS Oct 2023 #4

Thanks TexasDem69 Oct 2023 #5

Call it tactical and they will come . . . AndyS Oct 2023 #6

Said no Scotsman ever! Throck Oct 2023 #9

I've seen it called "Tacti-cool' The Mouth Oct 2023 #19

Gift link. (Non-paywall) ificandream Oct 2023 #2

thanks! AndyS Oct 2023 #3

Like any good advertisement, yagotme Oct 2023 #7

Follow me here for a few... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2023 #8

Soooo, the French are to blame for our mass shootings? yagotme Oct 2023 #10

What a Garand man you are ;) discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2023 #11

Proper loading procedure pretty well negates that. yagotme Oct 2023 #12

Trust me, the Sarge instructed me proper. discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2023 #13

The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was the best promotional effort possible. SYFROYH Oct 2023 #14

Yes, and electing Donald Trump did more to curtail gun sales than AndyS Oct 2023 #15

That's not my message. SYFROYH Oct 2023 #16

First, the NRA is taking care of itself. AndyS Oct 2023 #17

I didn't say or suggest that we should do nothing SYFROYH Oct 2023 #18

For the year ending December 2021... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2023 #20