Registering BB guns

[Dartful Dodger]

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/top/w23bbguns.htm

WAUKEGAN, IL

[TOK]

Wonder who the first rapper will be posed in front of a Chrysler 300 with gold toofs and a Daisy Red Ryder? Da air gats jest as fashnizzle as the 9mm now.
Straight up gansta yo!

[Stingray]

Wonder who the first rapper will be posed in front of a Chrysler 300 with gold toofs and a Daisy Red Ryder? Da air gats jest as fashnizzle as the 9mm now.
Straight up gansta yo!

Whoever he is, he'll put his eye out.

-S

[Havok]

I would rather win a major award...

[Stingray]

Belgium

-S

[ChadTower]

I've been saying for 25 years that they should only be allowed to make air guns in colors like green and orange, but you should not have to register them.

When I was a kid I had an air gun that was nearly visually indistinguishable from a real .22 if you were more than 15 feet away.  There's no need for Police to have to ever consider "do I have to kill that kid" because he doesn't understand the consequences of walking around with a rifle.

[Stingray]

When I was a kid I had an air gun that was nearly visually indistinguishable from a real .22 if you were more than 15 feet away.

I've still got mine. It's blued steel and real wood. You can't tell it isn't a .22 unless you're looking at the opening it the barrell. It would be seriously dangerous to let a kid have something like that now.

-S

[Dartful Dodger]

I've been saying for 25 years that they should only be allowed to make air guns in colors like green and orange, but you should not have to register them.

In Chicago the gang members paint their real guns bright colors.  It doesn't matter though, because the Chicago police don't know the difference between a cell phone and a gun.  If you really want your kids to be safe from the Chicago police, instead of painting their toy guns bright colors, you need to paint your kids white.

[ChadTower]

Or, how about being a good parent, and not buying your kids toy guns.

[Dartful Dodger]

Air guns can be more lethal than .22 rifles.  If they made that point they'd have a decent argument, instead they say they want to kick down the doors of the houses with bb guns, every time somebody shoots a window.   

With that kind of thinking they might as well register all bricks too.

[Crazy Cooter]

Or at least teach them what they should and shouldn't do with them.

example 1) Don't walk the streets of Chicago with an airgun that looks like an uzi.
example 2) Don't shoot your eye out.

[ChadTower]

Air guns more lethal than .22?

That's like saying a gummy bear can be more lethal than rat poison.


Cooter:

Step 1 is to convince them not to buy the guns.  It is more likely than asking them to teach their children something.

[Crazy Cooter]

True.

If only there was some type of registration/certification required before becoming a parent... I honestly think ~75% of people have no idea what being a parent really means.

[Dartful Dodger]

Air guns more lethal than .22?

That's like saying a gummy bear can be more lethal than rat poison.

...and that's why they don't want to make that point.  It would numb the ignoramus's fear for guns if they knew a bb rifle was as lethal as a .22.

[ChadTower]

But it is not.  I used to kill things with my .22 that I could never have killed with my air rifle if I had shot it 20 times and then beat it about the head.

[Stingray]

"It could lodge under the skin and cause a really nasty infection" --Clark W. Griswold

-S

[ChadTower]

One of my very favorite movies of ever.

[missioncontrol]

bah it won't even break the skin

[Stingray]

I do know that if I'm wearing shoes I can shoot myself in the foot with a BB gun and barely feel it. Who wants to try that with a .22?

-S

[ChadTower]

I shot my cousin in the back of the head with a BB gun pumped up HARD once.  He was about 8 feet away.  He chased me down the street and threw me off the railroad bridge.

Care to repeat that with a .22?

[missioncontrol]

a friend and I were chased by a bigger kid who had a BB gun when I was 7 I'm glad he didn't have a .22

[Stingray]

a friend and I were chased by a bigger kid who had a BB gun when I was 7 I'm glad he didn't have a .22

Yeah, sorry about that. I guess I was just in abad mood that day.

-S

[ChadTower]

The kid didn't have any pellets, just a gun and a can of Vaseline.

[grueinthebox]

I have to provide my name, driver's license number and signature to buy Sudafed, and people are complaining about having to provide info to buy a gun (albeit a low powered one)?  Spare me.

New plan: loading a BB gun with Sudafed.  That'll show 'em.

[Stingray]

New plan: loading a BB gun with Sudafed.  That'll show 'em.

<C.M. Burns>Excellent</C.M. Burns>

-S

[missioncontrol]

The kid didn't have any pellets, just a gun and a can of Vaseline.

well that proves it was Stingray then

[Stingray]

It's a hobby. Some people golf.

-S

[missioncontrol]

maybe you need a new hobby

[Stingray]

Well, we can try it again with this Wico balltop.

-S

[missioncontrol]

ummm no thanks

[Stingray]

I guess my new Ginsu knife set would be totally out of the question.

-S

[missioncontrol]

well Chad does say he doesn't get enough quality time with you. perhaps he'd like to play with you insted

[markrvp]

What's scary is that slowly, step by step, we are moving toward an Orwellian state of Big Brother watching everything we do.

This BB Gun registering proposal is the same ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- non-logic used by the anti-gun nuts.  With hundreds of thousands of air rifles in existence in the US, do you really think the guy with the brand-new registered BB gun is the one shooting out windows?  Of course not - it's the guy who stole one out of somebody's house.

The problem is - the cops and judicial system aren't out trying to find those guys and punish them for breaking the law - they want to come harass the law-abiding guy with the registered gun because he's an easy target.

More laws are not the answer - enforcement of the current laws would be a good start.

[DYNAGOD]

this country has put itself out of freedom...
we need to build a boat and find a new continent to conquer so we can have a free country again..
this nation is doomed..

[DrewKaree]

What's scary is that slowly, step by step, we are moving toward an Orwellian state of Big Brother watching everything we do.

This BB Gun registering proposal is the same ---smurf-poop--- non-logic used by the anti-gun nuts.  With hundreds of thousands of air rifles in existence in the US, do you really think the guy with the brand-new registered BB gun is the one shooting out windows?  Of course not - it's the guy who stole one out of somebody's house.

The problem is - the cops and judicial system aren't out trying to find those guys and punish them for breaking the law - they want to come harass the law-abiding guy with the registered gun because he's an easy target.

More laws are not the answer - enforcement of the current laws would be a good start.

You kids and all your "Sense"

[missioncontrol]

if big brother wants to keep trak of me all he needs is  BYOAC and stingraysmadness.ee accounts

[DrewKaree]

if big brother wants to keep trak of me all he needs is  BYOAC and stingraysmadness.ee accounts

Or a taser and a pit in the basement with a bucket to lower the lotion down

[ChadTower]

well Chad does say he doesn't get enough quality time with you. perhaps he'd like to play with you insted

I am holding out for his Tron stick.

[Bones]

Who would have thought Dartful would start a thread about guns?

Well blow me away and called me ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up, here is a gun thread!

[missioncontrol]

bang






hehehehe it was only a cap gun. I fooled you, I fooled you

ha ha ha ha ha