Tornado Alley (PROG)

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F6, I'd say Chauncey Hollingsworth might not be quite what he claims.

...AR-15 with a drum magazine.

No such thing...PERIOD. Unfortunately, the spouting of such ignorant drivel is all too common in the gun control wars. The sad fact is that The Right To Keep And Bear Arms is all about money. The so-called "right" was once a strident admonition of the duty of the common man to always remain vigilant for threats to our freedoms from within AND without our borders.

It is no more.

Yes, I am a gun owner. I own...and carry...every day. I received my first pistol...a Colt Army 32-20...from my grandfather sixty one years ago last April on my fifth birthday. I could shoot it all I wished, with only two stipulations...I had to load every case by myself with a nutcracker press AND I had to clean it after every use. After much trial and error I got good enough with it to learn my first hard lesson about the need to clean and eat everything I shot...turtle soup isn't real appetizing to a six year old. I was never allowed a rifle or shotgun as "Any fool can hit with a long gun." ...So said my father and grandfather.

That world is no more. I never ever even considered using a firearm for anything other than plinking or hunting until being introduced to a Springfield 03-A3 in boot camp.

In today's world the choice is simple...we can either restrict Free Speech by muzzling those extremists who so delight in goading the great unwashed into useful intemperance OR we can somehow restrict gun ownership in hope of lessening the tragic result of the gullibility of the much-vaunted Common Man.

Place your bets.