Wednesday, 14 June 2017
quote [ Updated 2:20 p.m.A UPS employee shot and killed three coworkers at the company's main shipping facility in San Francisco Wednesday morning before turning his gun on himself and taking his own life ]
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sanepride said @ 9:51pm GMT on 14th Jun
Another day in the USA...
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midden said @ 9:57pm GMT on 14th Jun
A little ahead of the average of two dead per day for mass shootings in the US, but May was a slow month.
https://www.massshootingtracker.org/data |
rylex said @ 10:38pm GMT on 14th Jun
oh shit. one of my co-workers has a 2nd job here part time. i wonder if he knows the guy
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Anonynonymous said @ 10:55pm GMT on 14th Jun
San Francisco has one of the toughest gun law around. And what the hell is an assault pistol?
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Fish said @ 11:46pm GMT on 14th Jun
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midden said[1] @ 12:04am GMT on 15th Jun
Just think, "uzi."
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backSLIDER said @ 1:25am GMT on 15th Jun
I know you are making a joke but I'm going to sperlge out a bit... please don't mind me. If it is a sub machine gun (pull the trigger until you run out of pistol rounds) then it would be an NFA machine gun to the feds and totally illegal to anyone except the movie industry, cops or former cops and legislators. If it is a one trigger pull on shot then it is no different then any other pistol except it cool scary/cool. Either way as of July of this year you are only allowed a 10rd magazine.
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midden said @ 2:09am GMT on 15th Jun
Not exactly a joke. I'm not a gun person, so I'm speaking from significant ignorance, but...
As a standard weapon in many FPSs and a common fixture in action movies, it's probably the closest thing to "assault pistol" most people know. While there are some variations that are not "machine" guns, having no full auto option, they're not usually found in FPS games or on the big screen. "Think of an Uzi," is a reasonable short response to the question, "What is an assault pistol?" |
bbqkink said @ 12:10am GMT on 15th Jun
"And what the hell is an assault pistol?"
You asked a really good question. The trouble is "assault weapon" is almost impossible to define. And if you can't define it you can't ban it. This is not an assault weapon it is a 22 cal rifle This is a common hand gun one favored by police not a saturdaynight special by any means. By with simple online instructions can be turned in to this |
backSLIDER said @ 1:29am GMT on 15th Jun
Ahgnnn *adjusts fadora* actually, they did define it. This was as close as they could get to describing ar15s and it swept up a bunch of other stuff. https://oag.ca.gov/firearms/regs/genchar2
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bbqkink said[2] @ 2:03am GMT on 15th Jun
According to this definition that 22 is an assault weapon.
Oh and the Glock is not. Another small problem..assault weapons isn't what is killing most Americans its hand guns and nobody has any idea what to do to make that safer. |
backSLIDER said @ 3:45am GMT on 15th Jun
Well, and the law is changing this year to ban the "bullet button" and change that to be more complicated. I'm not not saying you are wrong. I'm saying it is crazy complicated, weird and written to be effective.
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bbqkink said[1] @ 4:39am GMT on 15th Jun
Therein lies the rub. I don't know how to do it. and from what I seen neither does anybody else.
Then there is something that should be easy to get something done about. Put and end to Arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the trafficking of contraband weapons and ammunition. What constitutes legal trade in firearms varies widely, depending on local and national laws. If you sell an run guns and get caught should be a minimum of 20 years...but nothing. Most of the people who get killed in my state get killed by a gunrunners weapon. And universal background checks 95% of people agree it makes common sense but not a chance of passage. If we cant do the easy stuff like gunrunners and background checks...we will never get to the really hard stuff. |
Morris Forgot his Password said @ 2:43pm GMT on 15th Jun
the .22 would be illegal in Canada on account of the barrel length and the hi-capacity magazine. The pistol goes without saying is a restricted weapon.
But you are correct, the .22 is not an assault rifle. Here though, we restrict or ban weapons based on specs, not labels |
http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/man-shot-in-leg-after-argument-near-nyc-barclay-center-1.13737032