So We’re Violent?

Tam makes an amusing post about burning sacred items. and of course we know that’s all no big deal. I mentioned before, once at a party a friend of mine (who was a big gay rights guy) rolled a joint out of one of the Leviticus pages of the Gideons bible. Not the coolest thing in the World, but also not a big deal…also in America (which some claim to be a Christian Nation) the local law enforcement would only be concerned with the naturally growing plant my friend was rolling in the bible page than the actual paper he was rolling with.

I pointed Tam to this little article, where some hippie “Artist” destroys guns to make “Art”. Now as a gun collector it upsets me to see him melt down even a POS Raven pocket gun to make some shitty little sand-casted nick-nack. That Raven not only could protect somebody’s life, but could be a fun item to shoot at the range…you little nick-nacks are destined to gather dust and to weigh down paper. What a waste.

But of course what really pisses me off is when some spineless wimp brings in his late grandfather’s M1911A1. I don’t see enough of the gun to see if its an honest-to-god war bring-back, or if its a Commercial variant. Still this pisses me off as a 1911 fan, and a C&R Collector. What a waste of a beautiful and classic piece of not only American history, but fine 1911 craftsmanship…and what did he turn it into? A rusty, shitty looking coffin. You really have to be balls-deep in the indoctrination and the cult of anti-freedom to see that as anything but a senseless waste.

Yet this hippie looser asshole is still alive. The stalker obnoxious anti-gun trolls who have sent so many personal attacks against us because we have the gall to claim the US Constitution means what it says. The Politicians who have totally ignored their oath of office and have declared themselves a direct threat to our rights, and our personal property. To the lobbies who make up blatant lies to push their agenda.

All still alive. But I thought us gunnies were just murderers waiting to happen. Also I thought guns made it easier to kill…but it seems the most damage done in the Koran Burning chain of events was with knives.

Its almost like they’re full of shit!

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0 Responses to So We’re Violent?

  1. bluesun says:

    If I download a copy of the Koran and make a bunch of duplicates, then delete them all, how many UN workers do you think I can kill?

    The answer is none.

  2. alcade says:

    At a gun event once I overheard an LEO talking about an old captured German subgun handed in by a widow. We asked him what he did with the gun, and he stated that they welded the bolt closed and gave it to a museum.

    “You destroyed it?” someone asked.

    “Oh, but we shot the shit out of it before we did.”

    What a fucking waste, and I’m not just talking about the gun. Turned my stomach.

    • Weerd Beard says:

      Well at least it went to a museum while still mostly intact. (I would note that welding the bolt does make it a pain to reactivate, but technically that is still a MG per ATF rules)

      A LEO here told me about some old lady who had a S&W Schofeild in decent condition that she had in a shoebox somewhere. She turned it in in a buyback and it was melted into a manhole cover. The guy who accepted it and knew what it was tried to do anything he could to save it, but policies were policies and I guess rational thought be damned, and that valuable and rare gun was melted down into a worthless piece of slag.

      Sad indeed.

    • Tam says:

      alcade,

      If that buzzgun wasn’t on paper, there was no way to legally get it on paper. DEWATing it and sending it to a qualified museum was about the kindest fate it could expect; the alternative was having the receiver torch-cut to BATF specs and the gun parted out.

      Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

      • Wally says:

        Tam, if it was not on paper, it could be registered on a form 10 and kept by the PD or transferred to a suitable museum, all without having to deactivate it. As a form 10 gun, it is even more tightly controlled than a post86 and can never be transferred to any dealer.

        I had to demil a gun last week and I still feel dirty. I did all I could to make it easily repairable.

        • Tam says:

          True.

          Of course, a lot of cop shops don’t want to hang onto them for various reasons, and I’ve heard tell that even museums in some parts of the country prefer DEWATs out of liability fears. It’s sad. 🙁

      • Jake says:

        It reminds me of the church that found an old WWI era MG (a Vickers, IIRC) in a room that probably hadn’t been opened since the ’20s. No way to make it transferable, but at least the local Sheriff’s Office kept it and is working to make it functional again, I think.

        I wonder if someone could get a bill through Congress that would amend the law to allow antiques to be papered so they’re transferable (as “historical artifacts” or some such) while still being functional?

        • Weerd Beard says:

          I can think of a good bill…repeal the NFA and be done with it.

          Its not like it accomplishes jack or shit.

          • Jake says:

            I agree wholeheartedly. I only proposed what I did because I figured that might have a chance at passing if it gets buried deep enough into some “must pass” bill, whereas an amendment repealing the NFA would kill any bill that I could imagine.

        • Tam says:

          “Veterans Amnesties” get kicked around every so often. Now that the WWII generation is starting to pass away in significant numbers, the incidences of unpapered Schmeissers, Stens, and Thompsons found in paw-paw’s sock drawer by unsuspecting next-of-kin are on the rise…

          • Weerd Beard says:

            If Only I had such a Paw-paw.

            My Dad has a rusted-solid Chipmunk .22 in his basement. Because in Maine even the antis own guns….but they’re too icky to give them a squirt of WD40 twice a year and a patch down the bore once a year.

            If its nice enough that he bothered to keep it, why isn’t it nice enough to keep it in serviceable condition?

            Maybe I’ll bring it to Wally to see if it can be rehabbed or ATF cut.

          • Jake says:

            That would be nice. Unfortunately, all of Grandaddy’s guns got stolen back when Mom was in college – including a Luger he took off a German soldier in WWII.

            Also, I saw a picture today that jogged my memory. The gun I was talking about in my comment yesterday was a Lewis gun, not a Vickers.

  3. Wally says:

    Rehab, definitely rehab.

    I should snap a couple of pics of the demilled guns that showed up here last week, maybe that would scare you straight 🙂

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