Comments on: The Real Problem With Firearm Proliferation is Gun Companies Keep Making Newer, Cooler, Better Guns

By: JED

JED — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 03:46:53 +0000

Probably everyone here knows how WRONG the comparison to Hinkley is. President Reagan was shot with a .22 six shooter because Hinkley TRIED to buy something more lethal but a gun store owner refused to sell this deranged person anything else. Hinkley was forced to use the plinker that he had. Double stack .380 were available in 1981, for example the Browning BDA 380. 1911 style .45 autos have been available for over 100 years. Charlie Kirk was killed with a Mauser 98 as in 1898!

These guys start with the false “fact” of “the increasing lethality of weaponry” then lead people down the path to the conclusion that they want – gun control. The REAL answer is crazy control. It is criminal control.

By: Denton Salle

Denton Salle — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:18:52 +0000

Does someone want to tell him how old the 3006 is?

By: John Skookum

John Skookum — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:08:30 +0000

The bolt-action hunting rifle that Kirk’s assassin used has essentially the same mechanism, function, and capacity as its predecessor that was invented in the 1870’s. It is legal to own in every American state, every country in Europe, and even in places like Mexico and Japan, with the proper paperwork. Its cartridge is more powerful than any pistol or any assault rifle you can buy in your local gun store.

There is no gun control law that has even a slight chance of passage in any state, let alone at the national level, that could have prevented this assassination.

By: Ivanhoe Martin

Ivanhoe Martin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:48:22 +0000

The real problem with tyrants is they keep coming up with new and novel ways to trample rights and suppress liberty.
Oh, and the firearm cartridge trend over the past century has been to smaller and less powerful rounds.

By: RT

RT — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:38:53 +0000

Apples is constantly making changes to its operating systems which functional obsoletes devices like perfectly working iPhones and Macs. Of course the app developers are a huge part of the problem. In many cases they could choose to support older devices, but more and more only want the bleeding edge.

By: Joe Bagadonuts

Joe Bagadonuts — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:03:44 +0000

Maybe- but Kirk was shot by someone who used his grandpappy’s Mauser bolt action deer gun. The action might be 100 years old (my dad has one that has 1915 stamped on it)

Even the UK allows Mauser bolt action guns.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:21:10 +0000

“Today, the weapon that he [Hinckley] would be using would be a much more powerful weapon …”
Hinckley used a .22 LR revolver to shoot Reagan.
Almost all other guns, then and now, are more powerful than a .22 revolver.

By: Yankee Tango

Yankee Tango — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:17:45 +0000

And yet Charlie Kirk was killed with a bolt action rifle and cartridge dating back to World War One and this particular gun was what you call a “family gun”, belonging to the killer’s grandfather. Tell me how any of your “common sense” legal measures could have prevented this without infringing on the rights of millions of law abiding Americans.

By: uncommon_sense

uncommon_sense — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:43:05 +0000

Stanford Law Professor Dunce Zambrano. Who needs facts when you can just make stuff up and no one questions your verbal garbage?

F.Y.I. Someone collected a LOT of data some years ago in order to ascertain whether certain handgun calibers were significantly more deadly than others. The result was that none of the handgun calibers were significantly more deadly than any other caliber. Oh, and all handgun calibers are “weak sauce” meaning that they are not anywhere nears as deadly as Dunce Zambrano suggested. Someone studied that some years ago as well and determined that your overall odds of dying from a gunshot wound–OF ALL CALIBERS INCLUDING RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS–is just under 20%. That doesn’t sound anywhere near as lethal as Professor Dunce Zambrano claimed.

Like I said in my opening sentence, who needs facts when you can make stuff up?

By: .40 cal Booger

.40 cal Booger — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:52:49 +0000

Stupid is as stupid does: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson declares ‘Law Enforcement Is a Sickness’ In Chicago I Will ‘Eradicate’.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson just called jails, incarceration, and law enforcement a sickness that we need to eradicate while talking about ending violence.
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https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/09/18/hizzoner-law-enforcement-is-a-sickness-to-be-eradicated-in-chicago-n3806930