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I’ve been buying ammo and PMags off and on for a while now anticipating something might cause another gun grab.
I understand about striking unintended targets with the pattern spread as you get beyond about 20 yds but I don't understand overpenetration. Muzzle velocities of shotguns are generally around 1200-1500 fps and the ability to penetrate beyond 70 yds is very small as the shot lose energy quickly unless you are using a slug or large buckshot. I've been shot at 80 yds before and was hit with #4 lead pellets in my shoulder, arm, and hand. I was wearing a hunting coat and some lightweight gloves. It stung pretty good and had some red whelps but skin was not broken.A problem with shotguns is that you have to worry about overpenetration and striking unintended targets.
However, US Catholics say they are less concerned about Christian persecution than about human trafficking, poverty, climate change, and the global refugee crisis.
As a Catholic, I find this utterly embarrasing as Christians are getting slaughtered in Africa and the Middle East.
https://www.churchinneed.org/survey-christian-persecution/
I was done with Pope Francis the minute he started reducing the punishment for pedophile priests....and he did it very sneakily at that. He's is a massive hypocrite doing irreparable harm to the church.Maybe because many of the bishops in the United States are left-wing extremists, led by a Pope whom I'm sometimes not sure who he is working for.
Yep, sounds like a problem with our gun laws, doesn't it?Despite committing a string of arrestable offenses on campus before the Florida school shooting, Nikolas Cruz was able to escape the attention of law enforcement, pass a background check and purchase the weapon he used to slaughter three staff members and 14 fellow students because of Obama administration efforts to make school discipline more lenient.
Documents reviewed by RealClearInvestigations and interviews show that his school district in Florida’s Broward County was in the vanguard of a strategy, adopted by more than 50 other major school districts nationwide, allowing thousands of troubled, often violent, students to commit crimes without legal consequence. The aim was to slow the "school-to-prison pipeline."
Well, about that...I really don't care if Americans own AR-15... Ak-47... etc. of the military style rifles that so many are up in arms (pun) about. What I don't understand is why American civilians feel the need for high capacity mags for their guns. I think this is the main cause for the higher casualties in many of the mass shooting incidents we have had. The down time for reloading is substantially reduced when the shooter can shoot 30/60 or more times before stopping to reload. Evan I know you are passionate about this, but explain to me why you think this is so important for civilians to have access to. My sphere of gun experience has been hunting and target practice. I fortunately have not had to use a gun in defense of my property or my loved ones, but if that situation was to occur, I think the six shots in my .38 and three shots in shotgun will be reasonable firepower in a close quarters situation that would require. I'm not trying to troll you guys, I just would like to understand your thinking on why a gun that holds so many rounds is so important to you.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/report-parkland-shooter-did-not-use-high-capacity-magazines/The Parkland shooter did not use magazines larger than 10 rounds, but gun-reform lobbyists are calling on lawmakers to ban higher-capacity magazines after the Valentine’s Day tragedy.
CNN obtained a tape of Trump at a closed-door fundraiser. He said this about China's president: "He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day." https://t.co/FzLjVtlhl1
I think it was pretty well understood to be a joke.It's hard to know for sure, but that sounded like sarcasm - like he was making a joke. But I know CNN or most in the media will just take his words and run with them. Trump gave them plenty enough fodder to contend with this past week to keep them busy with tariffs and due process. But if they're truly worried about Trump being serious here all they need to do is make sure Trump speaks to someone with the exact opposite opinion in a closed door meeting and when they emerge...he'll have changed his mind.
I think it was pretty well understood to be a joke.