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How do you define "gun-grabbers", and why do you say those are their motives? I just want some clarification.

This could be a business opportunity for an Aspie to invent a much more effective silencer.

It's been defined countless times here in all the gunz-r-bad threads we've had over the years...

All of us who grew up here know to wear blaze orange and avoid white (so you don't look like a deer's tail). You just assume that the woods will have drunk and high hunters out there, regardless of what season it is.

I don't know if it's bad to laugh, but I learned the same rules in Vermont.

It was definitely a risk during the fall, but you never know when the drunk and high will ignore the rules and take a bead on a hiker, horse or cow.

Is it bad that I find this kind of funny?

It was definitely a risk during the fall, but you never know when the drunk and high will ignore the rules and take a bead on a hiker, horse or cow.

The real trick with those two wasn't so much that they were subsonic, though that helps, but a truly huge suppressor in the case of the Delisle silent carbine, and the use of leather and rubber "wipes" in the Welrod, which expanded behind the bullet to seal in the expanding gasses, but quickly wore out and had to be replaced. I've always been rather fond of those two designs as examples of wartime ingenuity, the Delisle was MacGuyvered together from pieces of an SMLE, a Thompson sub-machine gun, a 1911 pistol, and the custom built suppressor, while the Welrod was basically SOE's idea of a silenced zip gun. I always wanted to build my own versions of each, if the law passes, I just might.

I used to work with Chicken Little type that discovered that a .50 BMG rifle could be bought like any other rifle and what thier capabilities were. His concern (near panic) was that some right winger (he was a liberal) could just go buy one and engage Obama from 1+ mile away with it as if it were easy to hit anything at that distance.

I had to explain to him and others present that shooting a rifle, especially at those distances, was much more complex than just a mouse click. I explained the rifle's capability doesn't mean much without a skilled operator behind it. I went on to explain the effects of trajectory, gyroscopic drift, wind drift, ambient air density, Coriolis effect, etc. Add to that that the wind drift may vary between the shooter and intended target due to structures and land features that disrupt and channel air flow. Add to that the target could very likely move just enough from the time the shot breaks to when the projectile arrives to cause a clean miss. Basically, the factors that have to be taken into account in making a shot at those distances. Of course, none of this had ever occurred to him. He just assumed that you point the rifle in the general direction and the demons or whatever would take over and fly the bullet to its target.

Chicken Little seemed a little calmed by all that and it's just as well, otherwise he might have actually called the secret service and given them the names of all the right wing gun owners he knew, including me.