Sadly, either answer results in me feeling the same way about him..
I pretty much have no patience for clowns or jerks,

Srinath,
Yes I agree that something has to be done to stop people from doing these random shootings into crowds and such, But there has got to be a way to do it without taking away everyone's rights by putting an insane amount of tax on it.  You just mentioned your insight on drinking as a point, how would you like it if they put a  $100 per drink tax?  Sure that would cut down on alot of the drinking and driving except for the rich, but is it really the best solution to the problem?

Any regulation to that extreme is a good way to bring about another civil war.  Americans love their guns plain and simple. It's not just us southerners, but Americans in general.

As for your comment on me saying about the 500 to 1000 rnds not necessary,  I guess you have never tried hollow points in 1911 type action pistols.  Not all handguns are designed from the factory to reliably feed hollow point ammo, some require a little reworking of the feed ramps and ejection ports to get them to reliably feed this type of ammo. Even the lower priced colt 1911's have issues with hollow point ammo, as do most of the lower cost 1911 carbon copies that alot of people use to build a nice 1911 from.  The 1911 was designed to only shoot ball type ammo from the factory.  I have also seen alot of different type of of guns that had issues with hollow point ammo catching on the feed ramps what were not of the 1911 action type.  I made lots of money for the few years I was an FFL fixing these issues on handguns having to rework the feed ramps to get them to reliably feed those flying ashtrays.

So pulling the wool over a persons eyes saying it takes 500 to a 1000 rounds of your chosen defense ammo to prove it's reliable,  I think not.  I will not use a new to me or brand new handgun, or for that fact a new defense load in an existing handgun for defense until I at least put 500 successful continuous rounds without a failure to cycle properly after fire.

Sure it costs some money to do this, but I would rather know that my chosen defense round it gonna work with my handgun, then be surprised when I get a stovepipe or a jam because I did not thoroughly test out the ammo with the gun, because that stovepipe or jam could mean a very bad outcome for myself and my family.

Now I myself am not a hunter yet, so that would not be an issue for me, but I do have to protect my kids from coyotes, wild dogs, and other wild animals around here. I also plan on getting into competition shooting in the near future, both handgun and bench rest rifle.  Now if the economy keeps going the way it is, I will have to start hunting to keep some meat on the table, and at $100 per bullet it's just not gonna happen.  SS just does not pay that much as it is, so it's a fight to keep my teenage kids fed already, so yes I've been thinking more and more about starting to hunt some to get a little more food on the tables to lower the grocery bill a little.

R.F.

On DUI's, I've heard its implemented this way because that gets the best revenue. If drinks were to cost say $20 at bars, the incidence of "easily catchable" DUI will almost drop to 0. Cops nearly never catch dui's out of random chance, like you drink @ your house, then decide to make a beer run - you will almost never get caught unless you drive past the local watering hole. In a few towns around my house, these cops will be in the bar or parking lot and radio up and that's how they catch them.

Those guys are called DUI superstars. They have no interest in raising drink prices any more.

Cool.
Srinath.

It took about 500 rounds through my Glock to "seat" the barrel and finally get some consistent groups out of it.
I won second place in a shoot of about 20 people. I lost to a real IPSIC shooter with a $5,000 race gun though.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I sometimes have a recurring dream where my Glock won't function and I have to force the slide forwards.

I am open to suggestions but 100/per bullet is ridiculous. It's never going to pass, it's never going to work. Please stop pushing it. I'm not siding with JOG in slandering you but I'd be more receptive to an idea that could be implemented and actually work.


--Steve

srinath wrote on 03/26/13 at 19:45:08:


Our Constitution protects liberty, it does not provide for public safety, and that means preventing the government from being the people spraying bullets and us being the crowds in which the bullets are sprayed. Unfortunatley, we are human beings and life can't be perfect. If you wish to live where your fellow citizens aren't shooting each other then I would suggest moving to China, North Korea, Syria, Iran or Cuba. You should be pretty safe from your neighbors in one of those places (depending wwo your neighbors are )

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 03/27/13 at 13:05:41:



Yup. It sometimes takes me a while to figure stuff out. I'm called oldNslow for a reason . I actually thought for a while that it was a language problem - that maybe english wasn't his first language and that what he said seemed incoherent because of that. Now I think a lot of it seems incoherent because it just is.

He's got plenty of company though. People that think a lot like he does managed to elect the present occupant of the White House, and just about everyone who holds any kind of elected office here in NY. THAT'S what really worries me

It would seem that after 7 or so pages of me as Head arguer against idiocy, others who have been following along have joined in. I appreciate that additional logic & accurate reading & understanding of the facts. That we arent guaranteed absolute safety is something I forgot to mention. I guess its hard to remember that every basic part of ones understanding of "What is" is part of the argument, Its just so basic, to me, that safety from idiots isnt part of the American Dream. Freedom & individual responsibility , the foundations of Libertarianism, are what the American dream grew out of. As years have passed & more & more Feel Good laws, trying to create a reality that "Should Be", instead of allowing people to thrive has strangled this nation. & what do the people who want & support those idiotic laws want? MORE of the same CRAP that got us here,,
YES, the answer REALLY IS,, MORE GUNS.,.