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Mr. Luddite

On 2/2/2015 11:39 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:41:30 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Most people can have any firearm they want (within reason)
for their sporting, competition or self defense reasons.

That depends on where you live. HCI/Brady is trying to get New Jersey
to enforce a law that would only allow ONE type of pistol to be sold
in the state. (Armatix IP1 .22rf) There are a number of democratic
lawmakers who agree. It is the only gun in current production that
comes close to meeting their criteria.

Key word is "trying". There are many people who would like to ban guns
altogether but it doesn't mean it's going to happen.

Again, my comment was related to the mantra repeated by many that the
right to bear arms is to prevent government tyranny. The founding
fathers had greedy Kings in their minds. I don't see that
happening today or in the future.

Fast forward a bit to the 1800's. When was the last time you strapped
a holster and gun around your waist to head into town for supplies?

Things change.

I see far more risk in home intruders and possible attacks by terrorist
cells in the USA. Those are reasons enough (besides hobby shooting,
collecting, competition, etc., to be armed.