California already used registration for confiscation purposes ... in the previous AW scare-fest. I love pointing it out to those who say it will never happen and that gun rights folks are paranoid scaredy cats.

The supporters of most gun control legislation follow up any failures of such acts with pleas for MORE gun control legislation. Decades of failures prove this.

Doc, i was pretty sure at least one of the Doolittle POW members survived. I have several books on the subject and will check once I get back off the road.

Somebody in the media should have pointed out that Chicago forces law abiding store owners into situations like this. Glad he fought as well as he could with a bat and kudos for him and the many others facing armed thugs.

It continues to give me a chuckle when Danni and others use the term "reasonable gun control" as if it were objective and not subjective. The term has been widely used, or misused rather, by politicians and their MSM sycophants to paint their political opponents into a corner. Smoke and mirrors is alive and well in the U.S. of A.

I view 'reasonable gun control' as measures that prevent criminals from getting and using firearms while not denying law abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights. Both of those are important but the latter continues to get short shrift here and in the media.

Zat, it is funny to me that one side of this 'debate' keeps posting facts, statistics and legal citations while the other side posts personal opinions, wild assertions and anecdotes. I especially like Danni's gun owning acquaintances who have ALL had guns stolen - a rare experience among my own acquaintances. Plus if you report a firearm as stolen to the cops, they have the serial number, making a registry superfluous.

Ask Randy Weaver if you can trust the ATF!

Paneocon, Germany is about the only positive economic news within the EU. Austerity IS working there and it can work here if done right. I keep telling anybody that will listen that overspending is feeding the national debt, and the latter is what will kill whats left of our economy. Both parties are guilty of driving us off the cliff and servicing the mounting debt will be the nail in the coffin. Printing more money is just a new coat of paint on the same old Titanic.

More lies and distortions to push a gun control agenda. He stands firm in the ranks of Schumer, Feinstein and others who lie and distort to further their disarmament goal - only the sheep fall for it

Wow, Whatsleft thinks all AWs would have disappeared if the old bogus AW ban had not expired. Hint: the ban-by-features only caused gun manufacturers to change cosmetic features and sell the same basic functioning firearm. Feel good legislation at its finest! ;)

The only picture of Diane Feinstein that ever made me smile was the one where she was holding an "assault weapon" during a photo op where her finger was on the trigger the whole time! As Bugs Bunny would say, "what a maroon!"

#94 Johnny Hotsauce: think it is a pretty modest proposal.

That garners my support, just like all the pols and talking heads who use "common sense" and "reasonable"is to describe their legislative efforts. ROTFL!!

I know a few woman who have done this, but all were fuelled by guys who would not take "it's over" in their relationships. And only one had to discharge her handgun after learning how useless a restraining order was. As the gun buying boom continues more women are waking up. Welcome to reality, ladies!!

#44 Danni: You cannot cut your way to prosperity.

Spending money to be paid by our grandkids isn't working. Average family spending power has declined for years. National debt skyrockets thanks to the Bush-Obama twins and countless idiots in DC. The debt will kill our economy while people like you refuse to lift your head out of the sand.

How can any official positively identify a given magazine? Not like they have serial numbers on them. This is another feel good measure that is useless. If gun owners cannot see the encroachment from the anti-gun forces, they have to be blind.

Kennessaw never forces anybody to own a gun nor prosecutes for not owning a gun. This is the opposite of the gun ban crowd who do not trust you with a 30-rnd magazine or a Ruger mini-14 with plastic gee-haws added. Kennesaw was absorbed into the sprawling Atlanta surburbs and tried to keep Atlanta crime rates away.

I visited Tapco (Kennesaw based firearms accessory) years ago when they used to hold warehouse clearance sales. Ate some great pizza nearby ... cooked in a brick oven!

#73 Beaverstretcher: "I use it almost daily to keep food on my table,and that's that."

One of my friends said that growing up his Dad shot most of the meat they ate with a shotgun and until he was almost grown, he thought bird shot was some kind of seasoning. :)

Several years back another friend was bragging that he had purchased 10,000 rounds of ammo. I was very impressed and imagined pallets of ammo stacked up in his basement. He showed me several .50 cal ammo cans with 10,000 rounds, consisting of 20 500-round bricks of .22 ammo. Pretty cheap too at the time. I think it was less than $9/brick, now about $50/brick IF you can find it.

The gender of either one should have nothing to do with the punishment. Toss the book at 'em ... I say.

Had a local incident where a minor female sent a porn video of herself to classmates. When some boys resent it to other classmates they almost went to jail while she was never punished. Think the guys got two week suspensions. I thought they all deserved the same punishment. Ach, the kids of today!

The solar cell and battery stuff could really boost personal power production in the U.S. Hope it comes close to the hype, which science occasionally does. ;)

The only people more fiscally irresponsible than the R's are the D's. The R folks were in the lead until the past few years. The debt is what will crush us and most (read: almost all) are happy to keep piling it on and blaming problems on the other party.

Doc, I have seen several SKS rifles that would shoot 3" groups at 100 yards. Not tack drivers for sure and not quite as good as the AR rifles I have shot. But I would give the SKS higher marks for reliability, especially in harsh environments. The sov block Dragonov rifles friends have are pretty good out to 600 yards or so but I would prefer a decent Garand to them. YMMV. :)

I saw him being interviewed and he said they kept demanding that he open his safe for over an hour! Good thing he had a lawyer on the phone to listen in. Nothing like largely unaccountable gov't officials giving grief to law-abiding gun owners.

What Mustang said in post #2.

The SKS was nifty, until chicom imports stopped under Clinton. Funny, but it worked pretty much like most semi-auto rifles. :)

Reminds me of the laws in the south which tried to keep blacks disarmed. Hard to keep somebody 'down' when they can shoot back. ;)

I agree, the 40% number is bogus. Odd how often it gets repeated. On another note, where does the federal government get the authority to regulate private commerce within a state?! States have made such decisions for years...