Recently, I was listening to top of the hour newscast on my local FM News/Talk station, and I heard a commercial for my local gun shop that sells assault style weapons. Given the recent events, I believe that it is inappropriate for radio stations to run such ads that sell those banned weapons. I have never heard such an ad being played on a local radio station before all of this stuff happened and so far, it's not being run on music stations.
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Radio ads selling banned firearms
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But the Constitution says 'unlimited guns for every man, woman and child with no restrictions whatsoever!". If the guns were illegal,I probably wouldn't advertise them, but then the station will be accused of being "woke"
I agree, but unfortunately AR's are not banned. They should be, but that's a different topic.
Recent Congressional testimony revealed that just one gun manufacturer made over one $Billion just selling AR's alone. Every time there's a mass shooting in the news, gun nuts make a run to the firearms store and buy more AR's. It's BIG business.
The "Obama's Gonna Take Your Guns Super Sale". became the "Hillary's Gonna Take Your Guns Super Sale" (during the 2016 campaign) and it's now the "Biden's Gonna Take Your Guns Super Sale" Now that we have folks planning for Civil War to make Trump President for Life and fight the urban, lefty, avocado-toast eating blue state Communists, there will be even more gun sales
Yes, different. But every conservative and independent voter I know thinks that all forms of large magazine, rapid firing weapons should be totally banned; those with registered ones should be contacted and required to surrender them.
The problem is that the radical Tea Party and beyond conservatives are the loudest part of the right and seem to dominate the media, too.
And there might be a punitive part of removing those guns from the street where the manufacturers have to replace the "weapons of war" armaments with approved single-action guns that are adequate for self defense and hunting.
The Armalite Rifle model 15 is the most common rifle in the country, and since it fits the very definition by Federal law of what is legal, all the state laws restricting them WILL BE OVERTURNED by the Conservative leaning Supreme Court
The AR platform isn't going anywhere trust me.
The Second Amendment makes the rest possible....
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects “arms ‘in common use at the time’ for lawful purposes like self-defense” and arms that are “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” Such arms are “chosen by American society,” not the government.
www.latimes.com
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and you can hunt with an AR platform rifle....
The AR platform isn't going anywhere trust me.
The Second Amendment makes the rest possible....
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects “arms ‘in common use at the time’ for lawful purposes like self-defense” and arms that are “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” Such arms are “chosen by American society,” not the government.
U.S. appeals court overturns California ban on semiautomatic rifle sales to those under 21
The court ruled that a California ban on the sale of semiautomatic rifles to adults younger than 21 was unconstitutional.
www.latimes.com
Judge overturns California’s 32-year ban on assault weapons
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, calling it a “failed experiment” that violates people's constitutional right to bear arms.
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and you can hunt with an AR platform rifle....
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Well you and I don't hang out in the same circles and I am a conservative and I am a staunch supporter of the second amendment and there is no way I am conceding anything to the federal government
Our legislature wants unlimited guns for everyone with no training needed. It doesn't matter what law enforcement or the public thinks, :the constitution says I can have my own arsenal and doesn't say you have a right to not be shot at the mall"
You train with the gun after you buy it if you don't train it's of no use to you. Even the states that require live fire training are a joke. I know I'm not going to change anyone's mind here so I don't know why I keep responding to this thread. The best shooters of the ones that constantly train. You want to know who the worst shooters are? Police officers. Very few of them are gun enthusiasts they get to qualify once a year they never get enough ammo to practice with and the departments don't want to pay them to go to the range and shoot once a month. I can teach anybody how to get on the 10 Ring on a paper Target 25 ft away at a range. Try teaching someone how to fire a weapon and get two shots center Mass while adrenaline is pumping and you are moving looking for cover. I can train you how to develop muscle memory in order to break leather get on Target and be ready to shoot but I cannot teach you how to pull the trigger on a living human being that is something that you have to develop on your own and it is the hardest part of carrying a gun. Responsible gun owners think long and hard before they pull a gun in self-defense or in defense of others. It is the people who are not responsible gun owners people that should not be carrying guns for all sorts of reasons and I am going to put in places like Chicago which are infested with illegal guns even though they have some of the strictest gun laws in the country. If you have a total disregard for life then it is easy to pull the trigger for those of us that have a healthy respect for human life it is not something we would ever do lightly. But if you are put in that position where you have nowhere to retreat in no way to de-escalate and that is your only option you cannot hesitate for one second. If you don't think someone with a knife or a baseball bat or a shovel is a deadly threat you are absolutely wrong. Read about the Tueller Drill sometime.
Most of my friends who are not registered as Democrats are mostly from urban areas or naturalized citizens from another country. None of us think that having a personal weapon can help protect democracy, but they can help protect our families.
I've watched several segments this weekend on both liberal and conservative news sources about "nationwide crime waves" and "cities under siege" and the like. None of the victims would have been better off with a military machine gun; if a weapon would have helped it is mostly as a deterrent: the old door sign of "Protected by Smith & Wesson" is a better deterrent than a rocket launcher.
We are about a century or so beyond the time when an armed citizenry can protect us from Putin or Xi Jinping or Kim or any other despot.
A militia with rifle and pickup trucks is not of any use or purpose in today's world.
But.....but......when we fight the woke libs in Civil War II !
Machine gun? Who has a machine gun? The number of machine guns in civilian hands has not increased in decades.
Most are held by collectors. To buy a entry level machine gun is going to set you back TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
Unless you are a FFL 07 with a SOT (dealer manufacturer that is allowed to make samples) there have been no new machine guns allowed to be made or imported for civilian ownership in DECADES and the cost to get an existing one transferred to you, mostly by creating a trust is cost prohibitive. And by decades I mean 1986.
A FFL07/SOT can only sell to Police Departments and U S Military.
Want to see a law abiding gun owner turn white as a ghost and crap themselves?
Be on a range where a mechanical defect in the firing mechanism causes more than one round to be discharged when the trigger is pulled.
It isn't because it sent 2 or more bullets down range, it is because they are now technically in possession of a unlicensed machine gun.... you'll never see a gun taken apart that fast in your life and the parts kept in different places with different people until they can be sent back to the factory for repair because nobody wants the BATFE to nail them with a charge of constructive possession.
Oh here is some fun stuff... .50 Caliber.... very expensive to buy, very very expensive to shoot.....
I was using the term "machine gun" as hyperbole for high-speed automatic weapons with huge clips.
My point is that for personal defense, such a weapon is not needed.
And to "protect our fatherland" no kind of personal weapon will prevent the kind of government overthrow that has been the only successful kind for decades. Even the dissolution of the USSR came about due to non-stop unarmed civilian protests, not an armed rebellion. The other changes we have seen in the world since then have not been the product of an armed bunch of citizens.
Most of the radio talk hosts on the right have so little knowledge of world events, history and international governments that they are mostly spewing inaccurate information or downright lies.
I support the 2nd amendment as well. Which well-regulated militia are you a member of?
"Well regulated militia," as defined in the Constitution and written in late-18th centuryese, meant well-trained and well-disciplined.
There is a law on the books defining what the Federal militia is. 10 USC Section 246 is as follows:
§246. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
As far as I know, private militias are not illegal, although they are the ones that may be stirring up trouble, especially in the western states.
This thread is getting (and partly my own fault) off of the radio track. Let's try to relate it to actual radio program content or the legality of firearm advertising. Or the thread gets closed.
I'll go back to my point which is that most / many of the talk show hosts on radio I have listened to don't know the definition of "well regulated militia" with the keyword being "regulated". They also do not know the purpose of the Second Ammendment which was to protect the Republic from "furriners" trying to intrude; this was a key criteria in the invasion of Mexico nearly two centuries ago and even the made-up threat of the sinking of the Maine in 1898.
But a lot of talk hosts on the far right don't get that and think that a good militia is intended to protect the Republic from Bernie Sanders and The Squad.
I'll go back to my point which is that most / many of the talk show hosts on radio I have listened to don't know the definition of "well regulated militia" with the keyword being "regulated". They also do not know the purpose of the Second Ammendment which was to protect the Republic from "furriners" trying to intrude; this was a key criteria in the invasion of Mexico nearly two centuries ago and even the made-up threat of the sinking of the Maine in 1898.
But a lot of talk hosts on the far right don't get that and think that a good militia is intended to protect the Republic from Bernie Sanders and The Squad.
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That's a far cry from "unlimited guns for every man, woman and child in all places and all times with no restrictions whatsoever" that seems to be the popular right-wing definition
There's a reason advertising by Republican candidates includes families around the Christmas tree with big guns; a guy with ads about "hunting RINOs" and other ads like it. It reinforces "if we don't get what we want at the ballot box, we'll take it by force".
It's not unusual for radio stations to be in-kind sponsors of local gun shows. And of course there are several weekend gun radio shows, including this one:
Getting back to the topic at hand, it's sort of a moot point, since the assault weapons mentioned aren't banned by law. It really comes down to what the station owners deem acceptable. If you're not comfortable with a product, don't sell time to the advertiser or accept their money. You are responsible for what is broadcast. Also, if you disagree with the ads you hear on a certain station, change the channel or don't patronize that sponsor.
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