Some more Nagants.
- Thread starter JD7.62
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It does seem southerners love their guns!Diogenes;3693798; said:
I am actually in the car (wife is driving so say a prayer for me!) in the middle of no where ky heading to Hayden, AL to go hunting
in the AM and then the redneck family Christmas party! Actually though, bama has pretty restrictive gun laws, especially compared to KY.
Thanks, they all have great bores so i hope they do! As for the M1903s, in general, sporterized rifles can be had for a fraction of the price of one in original condition.killarbb;3693829; said:
JD7.62;3693876; said:
you think Bama has restrictive gun laws? Try moving to DC man! Had to leave all the good hardware at my parents place. I like soviet surplus too, just a bit more modern
. I've got a couple of bulgarian AK's straight from the soviet arsenal. I've got the obligatory M4 as well, but I'll tell you, if I had to have one or the other...The supreme court handed down a decision that changed things in DC a bit, but there's already another case challenging their ruling. Honestly, this may sound a little crazy, but after living up here for a while I'm sort of glad the gun laws are a bit more restrictive. The sniper, the VT shootings, those guys they just caught in Pakistan and other cases have sort of changed the way I see gun control. I still don't think a complete gun ban is right (or even constitutional) but, I agree with background checks, and I don't think people with a history of mental illness should be able to get their hands on weapons, the problem with a gun ban though is that people that abide by the law aren't the ones that society should worry about. Cache 22 situation.
I have the modern stuff too with six AKs including a bulgy AKS-74 and I have a Russian AK-103 on the way! I, of course, believe there need to be less gun control but more criminal control and stiffer penalties. Iam sure you already know there are back ground checks and that a hx of mental illness is already a disqualifing factor for gun ownership.
JD7.62;3694613; said:
oh yeah I realize that, but my former position was unrestricted default private carry. Living up here has made me see things a little differently. I've got a couple more AKs too but they're chinese imports.
My dad was a force recon marine in vietnam. He's fond of telling a story where he found an AK in a dried up mud puddle in a village. It was rusted shut. They kicked the bolt open, cleaned it out a little, sprayed some oil on it, and it cranked right up. Bad ass design mr kalishnikov!
D, do you think its the type of people in the DC area or the guns? In KY, guns are very very very common but little violence.
JD7.62;3696121; said:
I don't know if it's so much the type of people that live here, as much as the type of people that are drawn here because it's the seat of the federal government. That kid that shot all those people at VT was diagnosed with a mental illness, and still managed to walk into a sports store and walk out with a walther .22 target pistol, and a 9mm of unknown origins. That loophole needs to be closed- whatever it is. Also no amount of gun control would have stopped the convicted felon that was the DC sniper, and all the other neighborhoods where there's a lot of violence (averaging 22 homicides a month) are just subject to the same problems any big city has- ie poverty, class disparity, and a lack of options to do things besides commit crimes.
I don't know about you, but for me growing up in Bama with my dad who rescued down pilots in vietnam, was support personnel for seal team 8 when i was growing up, and is a gunsmith in his free time I learned to be respectful of weapons. They're not toys to me. I've been shooting guns since before I could even read, and i've never had any sort of accident. A gun is just a machine. You can load up an assault rifle, set it on the kitchen table, and it'll sit there til the end of time unless somebody comes along and commits a crime with it. I think you have to have a culture where people are taught to be respectful and responsible with weapons before you can remove gun control from the equation. For a lot of people in the world, they don't learn about guns the way we do in the South, father to son, etc. They learn about them from the only role models they have; criminals in the neighborhood.
