Doc

Actually, I didn't notice anything .... lol. It really doesn't excite me to see two guys playing word games, and I have stopped paying a lot of attention to either side. I could care less who thinks a crossbow is a bow or not or who can prove that their source is better than the other guy's. Who really cares? It's absolutely irrelevant. It's definitely not worth trying to make enemies over.

And here's one of the many things that stink about the whole situation ...... Cuomo is fighting all these lawsuits with our own tax money. We are paying for the defense of the law that is screwing us.

It's that old story of voters simply following whatever their family traditionally voted. Record and idealogy be damned. It's a whole lot easier to just walk into the voting booth and vote for the same party year after year. Why confuse yourself with actual issues and voting records and all that other painful stuff. There can be no other way of explaining it.

This is really getting stupid ...... My source is better than your source nyah-nyah-nyah-nayh nyah. What is the matter with you people? I know .... He started it!

I just got done checking Midway out online. Looked up a good test item ..... Hornady .22 caliber bullets (bullet , as in the reloading component). They are still listed as out of stock and not on backorder. So, even though the NYS gun-grab is not even in effect yet, they still are making no effort to sell ammo or fill in any shortages. I'm getting the opinion that gun and ammo manufacturers and suppliers are using this crises as an excuse to build up the prices that they can charge. Just like oil companies who have perfected the art of creating shortages and one crises after another, firearms and ammo vendors are building their own crises to serve the same purpose.

It's amazing how far Liberals will go to defend their amazing blunder of voting for this guy. I suppose they are also supporting Cuomo and his midnight raid on the Constitution also.

Afghanistan is a country with a long and continuous history of warfare and turmoil. Those citizens of that country were already battle hardened, not a couch potato softened population such as ours. Also, the insurgents were trained by neighboring countries (China and Pakistan) and bankrolled with billions of dollars from America, Great Britain and Saudi Arabia. They were not characterised as "farmers with hunting rifles". I watched video of the government and their personel aiming fully automatic weapons at the mid-sections of U.S. citizens as they forcefully disarmed them in Louisianna, and I don't recall any follow-up stories about mass desertions, or any armed citizen rebellion occurring in the aftermath. That one historical episode spoke volumes of just how prepared and equipped to go up against trained military styles of opposition. It just is not going to happen. I'm thinking that we have to start taking these movies of American uprisings for what they are...... entertainment and fiction. This is not 1776, and any conflicts with governments are not muskets against muskets happening from behind trees.

I have been to that same exact spot a bunch of years ago. It's along a hiking trail that we took. However I can't tell you what that thing is. It seems to me there were some other parts of these kinds of constructions located there also.

I think you would probably wind up with some pretty painful and severe dents in your face.

So the idea is that all that excess wood around your wrist is supposed to reach far enough to tie your hand to your wrist. Well, as you can tell, I do not often shoot handguns. Probably a half dozen times in my whole life. Well anyway, I'm glad there is a practical reason for all that ugliness....lol.

Sure, and a lot of the ones he is resurrecting are so old, I don't even remember them. They're like brand new topics. That same scenario really works good on movies when you get my age. I've got a whole lot of movies that I know I have seen at one time or another that are just like brand new now. That really comes in handy when you've got HBO ..... lol.

I can't for the life of me figure out any sensible purpose for that wacked-out grip. What in the heck is all that extra wood about? Can anyone explain that too me? But anyway, it sure is a pistol. I doubt anyone could argue that. It appears to be a singleshot, so excessive magazine capacity doesn't seem to be any issue. I don't really undrstand why there is any question about it's legality. Sure it looks goofy, but it is not illegal for a gun to look goofy. It's only illegal if it looks "mean" and dangerous ....... lol.

Storing a loaded magazine in the oven????? Even if it didn't constitute a safety hazard, what would ever possess someone to put such a thing in an oven? Why didn't he put it in the refrigerator where it belongs?

Lol...... He's just getting caught up.

Yeah but ...... it looks like the person that name was aimed at was the one who correctly pointed out that his gramatical correction was in fact incorrect. So just who is the "lunkhead"? ...... lol. That is one thing to remember, if you are going to make a big deal about how someone is using the language, it's probably a good idea to at least know what is or isn't wrong.

Walk down the Main Street of any city and watch the tons of blubber waddling down the sidewalk. Now picture these people as being our saviors in arms ..... lol. It would indeed make an excellent theme for a hilarious comedy. Yes I have seen the movie ("Red Dawn" or something like that?) where the highschool jocks organize and become the new armed resistance (The Wolverines). These are the movies where the good guys never miss and the bad guys go through most of their ammo without ever touching one of the good guys. It made a very entertaining story, but all the while I was watching that I was thinking about the reality and the actual liklihood of that ever really being able to happen. I know we often have a very fond view of invincibility when it comes to our imagined abilities, but the fact is that a totally unprepared force against a well armed battle-hardened enemy usually turns out to be a pretty pathetic one-sided affair. One of the unhappy truths is that most of today's more effective weapons couldn't even be operated by the average guy on the street if you did happen to capture one. The real answer and the one that has the only realistic chance of succeeding is to remain vigilant and proactive against these kinds of measures ever being needed. Because the chance of an army of untrained people off the street armed with deer rifles and shotguns ever successfully turning back a professional organized high-tech government military are very very slim at best.

I'm not sure I am in too much of a compromising mood. Most of the more ridiculous and harrassing laws that we have are the result of "compromising". Every loss of rights in this country comes from capitulation and compromise. I say make the creeps work for every little encroachment that they want to make. Make them spend political capital, make them spend every cent of their well bankrolled anti-gun funds, for every little advance. Don't give them anything! I don't see them compromising on anything. Where is the compromise when all of the sacrifice is being done by one side? Where was the compromise when they powered their law through in the dead of night. No, I am not in any kind of compromising mood these days. I am not ready to react with concessions everytime some wacko comes up with a new wrinkle in his killings. The fact is that more progress in violent crime prevention would be made if they were to just concentrate on enforcing some of the current laws and sentencing instead of beating on law abiding citizens with new versions of harrassments everytime someone else misuses firearms. The problem is that too many people believe that the government and their anti-gun cronies are operating in good faith. Get that out of your mind. They are not looking to be fair or to have your interests involved in their decisions. They are out to REMOVE ALL GUNS FROM PUBLIC OWNERSHIP! Keep that thought in your minds at all times, because they do. They are not looking to accomplish anything else. They will not rest until we have the same private gun ownership situation as Australia ..... No legal guns at all. For them there is no compromise only concession on our part. The anti gun forces are very well organized and unlike us, they have no problem being focused and keeping their eyes on their target.

I wonder if a slick lawyer couldn't contest that on the basis of "cruel and unusual punishment" grounds. This chart of comparisons sure does make a convincing argument for that being the case.

Sure, dig him up, cook him up, and invite your buddy and his kid over for a Bugs Bunny dinner. And you can give the kid 4 nice rabbit's feet as remembrances of his fuzzy little pet.

That's just a little insight as to the priority that these weirdos put on disarming the public. Look, the majority of us voted these guys in. That's what happens when people invest so little thought in their votes. These guys didn't make any secret about their anti-gun attitudes, but now there is all this shock and awe over this state gun law. There are elections coming in the future where many can rectify their errors. Let's see if the events of this legislation stay in the minds of gun owners long enough to have some effect. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Most voters have a very short memory.

I saw some disturbing video from Louisiana after Katrina hit, showing some guys that were just "following orders" as they leveled their weapons toward the mid-sections of some innocent civilians while they gathered up the legally and privately owned guns.

Lunkhead? ...... By the way, what is a lunkhead? Or for that matter, what is a lunk? .....lol.

I'll tell you one thing (not that it has anything to do with the topic), The absolute best meat that I have ever eaten was when we butchered our domestic rabbits. I honestly have never tasted anything that delicious in my life. We breaded and deep-fried them. The only problem is that we did get kind of attached to the critters and it made the butchering process a bit ugly. But that didn't affect that great taste.

I just took a look and it appears there are only two more days for squirrel hunting. I guess I will get out today if the weather cooperates. I don't know how the end of the season got here so fast.

Taken to its natural conclusion, one could justify firearms which would completely satisfy the last sentence of your reply. Look, I'm not arguing that every bowhunter does everything exactly as they should. I'm simply explaining that crossbow proponents are driven by an easy entry into a season that deer hunters view as having some very advantageous features. Let's face it, a bow can be a difficult thing to master. For some more so than others. For that reason, there are certain benefits that have allowed the sport to be practical. We pretty much get out there at a time when things are pretty calm in the woods so that we can use patterning strategies. We have "buck or doe" harvest choices. We have ever-lengthening seasons. And we have a pretty prime part of the year in terms of rutting activity. Most of this was granted because it was recognized that bowhunters are taking on a more challenging form of deer hunting. So naturally, anyone who can figure easier and easier ways to eliminate the need for practice and rigorous form and technique disciplines would love to be able to use less demanding weapons in bow seasons. I understand that. Get all these goodies without the problems of the weapon that made them all necessary. But there is an additional catch. These advantages granted to bowhunters are looked at jealously by gun hunters who are beginning to openly express animosity and a desire to be able to have all those bow season advantages without having to go through the rigors and disciplines that bowhunting requires. So it is natural that there would be an appeal for something that gives them all those advantages with a weapon that requires the same simplicity of use as the firearms that they are used to using. Hence the crossbow inclusion into bowhunting seasons with all the benefits that bowhunters have been given, without the need or challenge of mastering that confounded bow. Instead of learning the use of the weapon that the season was designed for, simply replace the weapon. The only question there is exactly when will that mentality cease. Where will the line finally be drawn, or will it be drawn at all? Some of us worry that it won't be drawn. Others celebrate that.