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Originally Posted by EdV;60***0
Every Marlin 22 lever rifle built since 1891 has a magazine capacity of between 15 and 19 rounds (depending on barrel length) as described here. So why did you feel the need to own a weapon with such a high capacity?
By ‘stay the course’ I mean the one laid out by the NRA in their press conference of a week or two ago. A trained ‘good guy’ with a gun in every public school.
Furthermore, it’s annoying to see so many posts referring to ‘assault rifles’ by posters who have decided to make up their own definition. Since the AR-15 looks like the M16 assault rifle, it must be an assault rifle. Well it isn’t. It is a semi-automatic rifle period. |
I said I had a Marlin lever action back in the 1970s. Never said I have one now. I got it when I was 12 which I lived in Reno, Nevada where many kids aged 12 or so also had weapons they hunted with as there were a lot of game in the outskirts of Reno like rattlesnakes, rabbits, ducks, quail, etc.
The NRA does not define what an "assault rifle" is nor do laws. What does define "assualt rifle" is how it is used in English in the United States and elsewhere. A look at comination of dictionary definitions would be a good start--
Assault rifle - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary assault rifle - definition of assault rifle by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
I hardly agree with the armed man in every school idea.
Jeff Flake: NRA's Armed Guard Proposal Would Be 'Edict From Washington' What is good for some school in gun loving Texas might not work for a school in Vermont.