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The Controversial M3 Grease Gun
By Patrick J. Chaisson
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Hickok45 having way too much fun with a Sten gun
Let's get something straight - disagreeing with someone's point of view is not "dissing" the person, nor does it constitute a 'personal attack', at least not as I understand the term.
It's simple. Registration is forever, the paper trail existing in some form somewhere. Licencing can and does expire at the whim of government. Due to licencing, there are several classes of firearms ownership - full autos and 12(6) prohibs. Some of us own firearms others will NEVER have the opportunity to own. You hear people lamenting this state of affairs on CGN regularly.
For those of us that owned some or all of these firearms, pre-dating any of this social engineering bovine garden enhancer, this is utter nonsense. It accomplished exactly ..... ? Help me here, it MUST have been done for some good reason. It sure wasn't done for the usual reasons of peace, order and good government, based on the criminal misuse of these firearms.
Did the introduction of the FAC accomplish anything other than to make 'paper criminals' out of otherwise law-abiding citizens who did not apply? The same can be said of the subsequent POL/PAL system. What has banning, restricting, prohibiting, licencing done oth
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First, pirates have been around practically since man learned to build boats. Pirates have been mentioned in ancient Babylonian and Egyptian texts dating back to 1400 BC. The Greeks and Romans battled pirates in the Mediterranean sea. In fact, the word "pirate" is from the Greek word, pieraomai which means "attempt" (i.e. "attempt to rob for personal gain"), which morphed to the Greek word pierates which means "bandit" or "brigand", from which we get the Latin word pirata, from which we get the English word "pirate". In the middle ages, the Vikings roamed the northern seas, but also sailed as far south as North Africa and Italy and sailed up rivers all the way up to the Black sea. The South China sea and the area between Malaysia and the Indonesian islands have had incidents of piracy since about 900 AD. In modern times, we have pirates off the coast of Somalia and in the strait of Malacca.
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