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10.18.06 @ 12:01AM

GUN SHOWS:
Re: John Tabin's When an AK47 Is Not an AK47:

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?
-- Bruce Abbott

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?"

Uhh...David Brock? et al.?
-- Reid Bogie
Waterbury, Connecticut

Tabin's "When an AK47 is Not an AK47" article brings to mind an analogy.

Every kid with any awareness of cars who doesn't want to be thought a fool understands that the Nascar cars are not the same as the cars at the local car dealer.

"Big city" reporters seem to figure that out as well about cars. Perhaps someone should tell them that the rubes are laughing at their ignorance on look-alike guns as well.
-- Andy Freeman

Tabin's article is the most comprehensive one I've yet seen on the subject of gun control.

Ugly, lethal looking semi-automatic guns are no more deadly than the weapons we hunt with. In fact "spraying bullets" most of the time is not very effective. Remember those bank robbers, with actual Machine guns and Body Armor, who were spraying bullets at pistol packing cops?

Using my 7MM deer rifle, I could have taken out each bandit with one shot between the eyes. Any normally equipped hunter could have done so. Hunters routinely kill with a single shot. Hitting the target where you aim is the name of the game!

Kudos to Tabin, he got it right.
-- G.B. Hall (WW2 vet)
Marietta, Georgia

It is all about what was convenient at that moment. These guys don't know a AK-47 from a shotgun. Look at Kerry , he was against guns but he accepted one as a gift while on the campaign trail.

Ever since the age of Kings and Peasants there has been gun control. It is all about the rich and powerful over the middle class and lower class. The rich want to rule everything....

Sick of double standards
-- Clayton Boutian

Please, Mr. Tabin, don't try to confuse the gun control advocates and their supporters with facts, their minds are completely made up -- unto eternity.
-- Ken Shreve
You want my gun, Pilgrim? Well.......

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