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p> GUN SHOWS : br> Re: John Tabin's When an AK47 Is Not an AK47 : /p> p>It is amazing how much out-gassing you get about semi-auto rifles from people who are either clueless or deceitful about their nature. I have fired full-auto rifles, and the AK47; I am not impressed with either. By the start of World War One, American sportsmen had at least 5 different models of center-fire autoloader rifles to choose from; when exactly did those semi-autos become a problem? I have a 35 caliber Remington Model 8, built in 1915, that will out-shoot any AK ever made. My state of Maine is generally acknowledged to be the second most heavily armed state in the nation; we had 21 homicides last year, and the percentage of victims slain annually with guns runs 10% lower than the country as a whole. If guns are the problem, then why are the states with the most guns the safest places? How 'bout it, Seattle -- how many murders did you have last year? br> -- Bruce Abbott /p>

John Tabin asks :...what are we to make of someone who calls himself a conservative, and even poses as a savior of the conservative soul -- while aligning himself with a guy like Feit on an issue so central to both the libertarian and traditionalist strains of American conservatism?"

p>Uhh...David Brock? et al.? br> -- Reid Bogie

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