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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Agree that everyday firearms like shotguns, handguns, target shooting, and other weapons should be legal. I still am having a lot of trouble buying the 2nd Amendment arguments that we need citizens with weapons like with those that 18th Century militias had with respect to the everyday situations they faced. They had to hunt to survive often and had to fend off Native American attacks as well as those from the various enemies of the English government, then of the US government. (fighting French invaders then English invaders)
Some people have to get their minds out of the Colonial mindset that the Framers of the US Constitution had. This is no longer their kind of world. Now we have assault weapons that can be modified to fire weapons at a very fast rate of speed. Why would anyone need an assault weapon of this kind in any everyday situation?? Even one that is not fully automatic?
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unless you are an every day Hunter, every day competition target shooter, there is absolutely no reason why anybody would need an alleged assault weapon even though it is not fully automatic in any kind of everyday situation.
People have handguns shotguns and rifles for various reasons including self-defense. Firearms like life insurance are really totally unnecessary unless you need them. You cannot buy life insurance once you're dead.
As far as assault weapons are made to you about Massachusetts. I was a competition shooter. I fired a 22 caliber pistol. He was a Pardinni. It was manufactured in Italy and is one of the weapons commonly used by Olympic shooters. It had five round magazine. It was classified as an assault weapon and was illegal to be sold in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The reason was that the magazine was in front of the trigger. I don't understand how that was considered an assault weapon, do you?
The assault weapons to be referred to today are not and never have been a weapon that any military would use to assault a beachhead. Those assault weapons would be fully automatic.
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