How true. And I volunteer that your statement also is true for half-way decent air rifles, or air shotguns.

From first to third grade (late ’70s.) I lived in a small town in Virginia in the Appalachians (about 20 minutes from WV.) I was between first and second grade and I was complaining to our 70+ year-old neighbor that I wanted a ‘real’ gun, a 22. He asked me to handover my kid-size-appropriate pellet gun waited a minute or so, then shot himself a snack – a fat squirrel. He handed the pellet gun back to me and said “this _is_ a real gun.” Then he retrieved the squirrel and began skinning it. I was convinced. 

Over the last year or so, I’ve developed a renewed interest in air-weapons. My interest has brought me to various fire-arm enthusiast and Prepper websites. Both groups have respect, and real uses for air-guns. Both as a means of practising at home to look good at the firing range, and for actual stealthy suburban varmint removal, or very real survival situation hunting of small game. There are even air-gunners who are skilled enough to take down larger game. 

(Amiright?)

Can’t reply to Hal or Nathan ’cause comments are closed, so adding this here…I found the rules for the U.K. Airgun power is restricted there, but they’re still good enough to plinking, hunting game-birds, or small mammals.

http://www.airgunforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php/76641-UK-Airgun-Law

Liberal here: Good point. Thanks. I’ll add these to my list. Except for marijuana. And ironic black-powder muzzle-loaders. 

Rope doesn’t hang people’s argument’s, giving them rope to hang themselves does!

Personally I don’t want to see the wrong lizard person get into office.

The problem with the people like Alex Jones, is that they see the tipping point around every corner, and in every shadow.

There is no conversation here just one person trying to talk to somebody that is batshit insane that is trying to blurt out his entire belief system in 10 minutes.

This guy makes Glen Beck look sane.

How will they know when to start shooting, and who?

He mentions the drones in the skies targetting US citizens… so, what have you brave gun owners defending your country done to stop it?  Have your guns been much use there?

No?  Because if not, you’re too late.  You’ve already allowed the oppressive government you think you’re protecting yourself from. 

But the pen is mightier than the sword.  Perhaps what we need is an updated amendment granting citizens the right to own the information that will protect them from their own government. Or do we already have that?

Even Fox News acknowledges that anyone who owns weapons that become prohibited would be allowed to keep them but must register the weapons. That is regulation and restriction for existing guns and a ban on selected weapons in the future.

And it has not gone away, it will be reworded to protect pump action shotguns and semi auto hunting weapons with low capacity magazines and then be passed later. You will still have to register those firearms.

You really should get your news -at least- from Fox News, if that’s the best you can do, but stop taking the word of gun nut sites.

As well, if you can’t kill varmint or hunt prey with a .410/.22 once over then you shouldn’t be handling firearms without further instruction. /marksman

In what universe?  There’s a gun rampage every few weeks.

Yeah, don’t try to pull that one on me.  I live in Illinois, where lawmakers just attempted to pass a state-wide semi-auto ban that is so broad that it bans almost all modern firearms, even pump action shotguns…and it’s not limited to purchases.  Oh, warrantless searches, too.  It’s been canceled due to public outcry, but who knows?  We gotta keep those school kids safe, after all!

I don’t think my last graf is as much of a straw man as you’d like to think, as we’re discussing Piers Morgan, who seems to think gun ownership is out of control.  And when we’re talking about gun control, well yes, we have gun control already, though implemented largely at local and state levels.  We’re already preventing legal ownership in many places by people who have been convicted of felonies.  Is it working?