Fear leads to Run on Assault Riffles

[Devil]

I should have stated that I've wanted a black rifle for over ten years. The tragedy in Connecticut has nothing to do with that desire other than delaying my purchase for a bit longer.

I'm also fine with the rifle being a perfectly legal semi-automatic version. As a civilian, I hardly need full auto, or even a three round burst.

Yeah, but the perfectly legal semiautomatic ARs that were manufactured under the last AWB sucked ballsack. If you get stuck with one of those queersticks you'll be looking at it wishing you had a real AR.

[itwasntme]

It did not in fact end.

It is not the solstice there yet. 11:11am UTC/GMT

The Mayan Long Count does not cycle in Australia until 12-22-12, because of where the International Date Line is.

Tell that to my Facebook newsfeed.

[doofaloofa]

More than I can fit in my pockets.

How many pockets you got Scut?

[Volya]

Another good example of When Fear Attacks: big runs and 500% sales increases on kevlar backpacks and children's body armor.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...939_story.html

Bulletproof fucking backpacks, yep that'll stop the next psycho gamer having a Neo fantasy from slaughtering a classroom.

Bulletproof fucking backpacks.

Reactionary security measures...gotta love em.

If you can get bulletproof bags so easily, what's stopping another crazy person from buying a heap of them and then modifying them into a bulletproof suit before going on a shooting spree?

All our body armour requires licensing here too.

[ermghoti]

Naw, Americans can NEVER, nor should we, rationalize small kids and death.

You'll buy a modified version of the assault riffle you want. 9/11, the Patriot Act and the formation of the TSA shows me that this will be the tipping point. Of course when the world ends tomorrow it won't matter.

Might not be able to get decent mags though. That's the big problem in MA... anything over 10 rounds has to be pre-'94.

I saw that episode, when it originally aired and laughed my ass off. I think I realized then, even people I'd have considered "EXPERTS" can be full of ****.

Do you remember better than I do? He had some title that implied he was the local gun expert, right? I think they showed him handling the shotgun, looking about as competent a 14 year old boy with his first encounter with a vagina. I'd heard many self-proclaimed gun experts talking nonsense by then, and many more since. BARRELSHROUD

[ermghoti]

I honestly wouldn't mind a bullet blocker backpack for work. But I am not going to shell out that kind of money.

Backpack+1/4" sheet steel plate.

Hmmm... BRB, got to go make a shitton of money off stupid people.

[DarkPhoenix]

I am glad I got my AK when I did. I paid $600 for a Maadi with 3 30 Rd mags and 1000rds of Wolf hollow points almost a year ago. Now I am seeing WASR-10s going for close to $1000.

Ridiculous.

[It is Fake]

Do you remember better than I do? He had some title that implied he was the local gun expert, right? I think they showed him handling the shotgun, looking about as competent a 14 year old boy with his first encounter with a vagina. I'd heard many self-proclaimed gun experts talking nonsense by then, and many more since. BARRELSHROUD

IIRC that's what happened. It looked like he thought it was a high round magazine like this:

Mistakes happen, but it was the title that made me laugh.

I am glad I got my AK when I did. I paid $600 for a Maadi with 3 30 Rd mags and 1000rds of Wolf hollow points almost a year ago. Now I am seeing WASR-10s going for close to $1000.

Ridiculous.

I hate you and Scrapper. Jackasses. Have you seen the jump magazine prizes? I've been looking at the 100+ magazines and they are at least 150 to 200 more. Ammo has started going up.

[W. Rabbit]

Backpack+1/4" sheet steel plate.

Hmmm... BRB, got to go make a shitton of money off stupid people.

America needs manufacturing jobs.

Adam Lanza was heavily body armored and now there is a family friend's statement that he may have sunk into depression because his mother wouldn't let him join the Marine Corps.

Lanza, 20, harbored a dream of joining the military after he stopped taking college-level courses at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, said a local merchant who knew Nancy and her son.

Lanza first made his military aspirations known when he was 17, about the time his older brother Ryan was attending Quinnipiac University in Hamden.

The Adam Lanza who went on a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown last Friday was outfitted for war. Only his targets were civilian, not military.

[JohnnyCache]

I am not a veteran, but in my mind, if he's 20 and stopped by his mom not "letting" him join I don't think he would have made the cut.