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Originally posted by Starlight View PostIQ free test.JPG
I am smart enough to realize that posting this will in no way stop other posters here calling me stupid.
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Originally posted by seer View Post
Yes, we had more that a few WW2 Lugers around - they were very well made...
Originally posted by seer View PostNow that is a real find!
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostPeople took Lugers that their father's brought back from the war as souvenirs[1] to school for show and tell. There was a shooting club in High School with kids carrying rifles on school buses on Fridays.
Funny how nothing ever came of it.
1. one uncle wasn't satisfied with that and brought home a Schmeisser MP38 (or maybe 40) submachine gun (or "machine pistol") back. According to my grandmother (his mother) the feds came out to their farm in the Dakotas and took the firing pin and put a lead plug in the barrel. My uncle promptly went down to the hardware store and ordered a new firing pin and barrel which he got shortly later. The thing hung on the wall in the den over the sofa -- and was fully operational.
Now that is a real find!
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Originally posted by seer View Post
People who didn't grown up like that can't understand. At 13 I used to ride through town on my stingray bike with my 22 to go hunt rabbits. No one gave me a second look...
Funny how nothing ever came of it.
1. one uncle wasn't satisfied with that and brought home a Schmeisser MP38 (or maybe 40) submachine gun (or "machine pistol") back. According to my grandmother (his mother) the feds came out to their farm in the Dakotas and took the firing pin and put a lead plug in the barrel. My uncle promptly went down to the hardware store and ordered a new firing pin and barrel which he got shortly later. The thing hung on the wall in the den over the sofa -- and was fully operational.
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Without the shoulder strap.
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
Then there are incidents like this one.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64301137
A man has been arrested on live TV in the US state of Indiana after his four-year-old son, appearing to wear a nappy, was seen waving a gun.
Shane Osborne, 45, was charged with neglect after neighbours reported a child in a hallway carrying what they believed to be a handgun, police said.
The arrest was filmed on the TV show On Patrol: Live.
The show aired surveillance video allegedly showing the boy playing with a weapon and even pulling the trigger.
Neighbour Nicole Summers told local station WTHR that she called police after the boy came to her door and pointed a pistol at her son.
"My son, he opened the door and then shut it and backed away and he was like, 'Uh...baby with a gun. Get out of here, get out of here!'" said Mrs Summers.
Looking through the door's peephole she confirmed that the gun was not a toy.
"He was just kind of holding it behind his back, and I thought...like that's a real gun. I sell guns for a living, so I know what a gun looks like."
Mr Osborne initially told police there were no weapons in the house, claiming to have been been feeling ill all day and sleeping, Beech Grove Police told the BBC.
"I don't have a gun," he tells police on the show, where Beech Grove officers are followed on shift. "I have never brought a gun into this house, if there is, it's my cousin's."
He added that he did not realise that his son had been outside in the hallway of the apartments.
While the officers were still on the scene, a neighbour came forward to the officers with surveillance video. The video showed the young child in the hallway with what appeared to be a real firearm.
Police then found the firearm in Mr Osborne's apartment and he was arrested. It was later found that there were 15 bullets in the gun's magazine, but luckily, there was no round in the chamber.
The search and arrest aired live on the TV programme On Patrol: Live, which is broadcast on the Reelz channel. Mr Osborne is due to appear in court on Thursday to face child negligence charges.
It comes in the same month that a six-year-old student allegedly shot his teacher with a handgun at a Virginia elementary school, in what police described as an "intentional" shooting.
The article contains a video link to a tragedy that occurred in 1989 "I accidentally shot dead my sister'" and that contains the information that:
Around 4.6 million US children live in homes with unsecured guns. Three in four of those children know where the guns are stored.
I talked about guns on websites for nearly 20 years and never yet has anybody in the USA told me that they hold 3rd party all risks insurance coverage on their guns.
....ridiculous.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Post
I grew up with shotguns hanging on walls, in racks in the back of pickups, etc. I went hunting with my dad when I was about 7 and he taught us how to shoot guns and handle them safely when I was about that age. Soon after he got me and my brother a 410 shotgun and we went hunting with him and shot squirrels and rabbits. I had my own BB gun when I was 5 or 6. He even made sure I handled that correctly.
I never once thought of guns as toys or even tried to handle a gun without his permission.
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Originally posted by Diogenes View Post
The purpose of having a gun for self-defence is to be able to use it. If a parent has a gun, it should be out of reach of small children and the children should be taught gun safety at an early age. Also, it should not have a chambered round for just such a situation. If anything, the magazine should not even be in the gun at all.
I never once thought of guns as toys or even tried to handle a gun without his permission.
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
Some 4.6 million children living in homes that have unsecured guns?
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Originally posted by tabibito View Post
But perhaps the best argument against capital punishment is the psychological effect on the executioner. It is never good or neutral, and often quite devastating.
Someone pulling the switch on an electric chair, gas chamber or even lethal injection, does not have that.
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Originally posted by eider View Post
You can access every mass shooting via IT and see the dreadful incidents of employees, racists and terrorists mass killing.
But I will attend to your point on post 1767.
Please be so kind as to show the last three mass gun-killing incidents by 'gangbangers' and I will learn something.
Well...?
Dreadful incidents of employees, racists and terrorists mass killing aren't even on the list of top causes. And look at what does lead off the list.
[* emphasis in original *] Note again what is and what is not listed.
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Originally posted by Diogenes View Post
The man was dutifully arrested. The bad actions of individuals do not affect the rights of others.
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
Originally posted by eider View Post
650 mass-shootings happened all over the USA...... racists, terrorists, angry employees.......... and some gangs fighting each other. Do you think that shooting up folks at their shops or jobs was all 'gangbang'?Originally posted by eider View Post
That's your list?
650+ mass murders occurred in 2022!!
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Originally posted by eider View Post
Dreadful! Where was there any risk to the Cop?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64301137
A man has been arrested on live TV in the US state of Indiana after his four-year-old son, appearing to wear a nappy, was seen waving a gun.
Shane Osborne, 45, was charged with neglect after neighbours reported a child in a hallway carrying what they believed to be a handgun, police said.
The arrest was filmed on the TV show On Patrol: Live.
The show aired surveillance video allegedly showing the boy playing with a weapon and even pulling the trigger.
Neighbour Nicole Summers told local station WTHR that she called police after the boy came to her door and pointed a pistol at her son.
"My son, he opened the door and then shut it and backed away and he was like, 'Uh...baby with a gun. Get out of here, get out of here!'" said Mrs Summers.
Looking through the door's peephole she confirmed that the gun was not a toy.
"He was just kind of holding it behind his back, and I thought...like that's a real gun. I sell guns for a living, so I know what a gun looks like."
Mr Osborne initially told police there were no weapons in the house, claiming to have been been feeling ill all day and sleeping, Beech Grove Police told the BBC.
"I don't have a gun," he tells police on the show, where Beech Grove officers are followed on shift. "I have never brought a gun into this house, if there is, it's my cousin's."
He added that he did not realise that his son had been outside in the hallway of the apartments.
While the officers were still on the scene, a neighbour came forward to the officers with surveillance video. The video showed the young child in the hallway with what appeared to be a real firearm.
Police then found the firearm in Mr Osborne's apartment and he was arrested. It was later found that there were 15 bullets in the gun's magazine, but luckily, there was no round in the chamber.
The search and arrest aired live on the TV programme On Patrol: Live, which is broadcast on the Reelz channel. Mr Osborne is due to appear in court on Thursday to face child negligence charges.
It comes in the same month that a six-year-old student allegedly shot his teacher with a handgun at a Virginia elementary school, in what police described as an "intentional" shooting.
The article contains a video link to a tragedy that occurred in 1989 "I accidentally shot dead my sister'" and that contains the information that:
Around 4.6 million US children live in homes with unsecured guns. Three in four of those children know where the guns are stored.
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