Biggfoot44
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- Aug 2, 2009
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Sell all of them except for one, invest in mutual funds, and hope the stock market doesn't go down ?
ARs- Worries & How Many Are Too Much?
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DaemonAssassin
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Can always ask a neighbor for some help. Neighbors can be a wonderful thing. Especially the ones on MDS.
- May 5, 2010
- 6,588
Good. Too many men are whipped by their wives. Pathetic really.
- May 5, 2010
- 6,588
I never wanted a lot of AR's. Heck, lately I've been wanting to sell my 18" AR and put a 1-4x scope on my CQB AR just to nake it the jack of alll trades and size down my collection, which isn't big to begin with. Sometimes the more you have, the less you use them.
A few different rifles with different purposes is nice, but I'd rather spend that extra money on a suppressor, night vision, training, ammo etc. You can only use so many guns at once afterall.
Also, each AR is money you could be saving on land to actually use those guns on.
Still, you should always have a backup plan. Do not keep all of your AR's in the same spot either.
A few different rifles with different purposes is nice, but I'd rather spend that extra money on a suppressor, night vision, training, ammo etc. You can only use so many guns at once afterall.
Also, each AR is money you could be saving on land to actually use those guns on.
Still, you should always have a backup plan. Do not keep all of your AR's in the same spot either.
TheOriginalMexicanBob
Ultimate Member
I never wanted so many 1903 rifles either but ended up with several dozen though that's been pared down to about ten. The same with M1 Garands...had about a dozen and down to two now. Some things are like friends with benefits...you can't stop at just one but eventually you find out you have to cut back for your own health.
davsco
Ultimate Member
AR's are actually pretty easy to build. torque wrench and a vise and you're gtg. the fallacy though is building yourself is not necessarily cheaper, and actually prob more expensive, just that you can pick every single piece you want vs what the manufacturer of the complete rifle used. and places like rainier arms will assemble all your parts for a nominal fee, i think $100, if you want the best of both worlds.
gamer_jim
Podcaster
Just one more....
dist1646
Ultimate Member
It is indeed a sad statement when people fear the very government that is supposed to be working for/representing them.
Not a big AR fan, I owned zero until 2 years ago. Bought a few nice ones, built a few from striped receivers, several 80s. 223 is still pretty cheap to shoot, and their are a lot of fun cartridges, suppressed 300blk and 458 SOCOM are neat.
I doubt a ban will go down the same way, but "How many machine gun auto sears were too many in 1985?". In 30 years how man $60 stripped lowers do you wish you horded? I am not saying to dump your 401k into ARs, but some small fraction could be called diversification or speculation.
I doubt a ban will go down the same way, but "How many machine gun auto sears were too many in 1985?". In 30 years how man $60 stripped lowers do you wish you horded? I am not saying to dump your 401k into ARs, but some small fraction could be called diversification or speculation.
The only limit to how may ARs you can have should be based on your bank account.
Plus, though our state political system may be a den of thieves and vipers, they are not stupid.
It would be political suicide for the MD government to send our law enforcement into two-way rifle ranges day-in and day-out in order to confiscate firearms.
Many people are not afraid to fight the government, and God help those that are sent to face them.
(for the FBI/NSA/ATF agent reading these threads, I am speaking in purely hypothetical terms)
Plus, though our state political system may be a den of thieves and vipers, they are not stupid.
It would be political suicide for the MD government to send our law enforcement into two-way rifle ranges day-in and day-out in order to confiscate firearms.
Many people are not afraid to fight the government, and God help those that are sent to face them.
(for the FBI/NSA/ATF agent reading these threads, I am speaking in purely hypothetical terms)
The government can (and will) try to mandate whatever they wish to try to mandate. And the people can (and will) ultimately decide what they’re going to abide by. As the old saying goes, it ultimately takes 2 to tango. This is and this will indeed remain true here.
New York mandated AR registration with the so called “Safe Act”, as an obvious precursor to any future confiscation schemes. And if the figures are to be believed, the registration compliance rate is said by some to be somewhere in the range of 4%. Given the level of non-compliance, it remains to be seen what (if anything) transpires from here. But clearly a statement has been made by the AR owning citizens there. And the ball is now squarely in the government’s court.
My hope is that the SCOTUS one day soon follows clear Constitutional guidance, and puts this issue to sleep. In the meantime? You want an AR, or another one? Buy it. The more the merrier.
New York mandated AR registration with the so called “Safe Act”, as an obvious precursor to any future confiscation schemes. And if the figures are to be believed, the registration compliance rate is said by some to be somewhere in the range of 4%. Given the level of non-compliance, it remains to be seen what (if anything) transpires from here. But clearly a statement has been made by the AR owning citizens there. And the ball is now squarely in the government’s court.
My hope is that the SCOTUS one day soon follows clear Constitutional guidance, and puts this issue to sleep. In the meantime? You want an AR, or another one? Buy it. The more the merrier.
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alucard0822
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It's simple math, you have a dozen AR 9s, 10s, 15s etc, the government bans 10 of them, how many do you still have?
all of them
One thing that practically never gets reported is the mass non-complance after bans, think there were less than 5% compliance after CT required registration of ARs and < 10rd mags. They estimate Australia had about a 10% compliance after outright bans. The problem isn't neccesarily that a ban passes, it's what comes next, usually a big jump in crime, and a massive attack on rights, best thing to have then is a potent firearm, even if it happens to be illegal.
all of them
One thing that practically never gets reported is the mass non-complance after bans, think there were less than 5% compliance after CT required registration of ARs and < 10rd mags. They estimate Australia had about a 10% compliance after outright bans. The problem isn't neccesarily that a ban passes, it's what comes next, usually a big jump in crime, and a massive attack on rights, best thing to have then is a potent firearm, even if it happens to be illegal.
No, it's not. You seriously need to acquaint yourself with this basic legal concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
The government is NOT prosecuting you for your purchase. They are prosecuting you for owning it after some future date. When that future date comes, the law is in effect; your actions are not being _post-facto_ criminalized. You made the decision to not be in compliance with the law _as it existed on that date_.
No, a bill of attainder is when legislature declares X people _guilty_ of a crime without a trial. Your Wikipedia quote even says this, so I'm not sure what the confusion is.
Ex-Post-Facto: Congress passing a law in 2017 that makes a crime of buying an AR in 2010. You get a trial (with a jury of your peers).
Bill of Attainder: Congress passing a law in 2017 that declares all people found with an AR will go to jail for 20 years _with no trial_.
DaemonAssassin
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CrabcakesAndFootball
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- Jun 14, 2017
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This is not at all scientific, but I’ve heard Nut-n-Fancy talk about the mass non-compliance in CA before. The result of all of this is that we are turned into criminals. Thank god for Kavanaugh and thank god we held the senate for 2 more years.
I did want to add that I’ve shared the OPs concern and I think it’s reasonable. I also 100% sympathize with those who wouldn’t comply with a hypothetical ban.
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TheOriginalMexicanBob
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I respectfully have to disagree but I'm not a lawyer...my wife is but I didn't run this by her. It's what I was taught in the police academy but as always is the case with the law...it's arguable and interpretation differ. In the academy the standard answer about the law is "It depends...on whatever yesterday's court decision was."
bigdv
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