Sons of Guns - Misuse of Post-Samples

[4sooth]

My issue with repo men is that it takes place in California--and the law there says that the repo MUST be peaceful. If it turns the slightest bit forceful then the repo folks are to go their way and call the police. Events like those shown are not kosher under the law.

 

[dickttx]

I somewhat enjoy the reality shows about guns, oil drilling, and auctions. However, all of them are continually putting in completely false deadlines that make no rational sense.

 

[2WheelsGood]

There shouldn't be a 'priviledged' class that can enjoy perks forbidden to the citizenry.

I'm all for the citizens of this country owning automatic weapons, but this statement is a bit silly. Police aren't a "privileged class" of people. They're hired to do a dangerous job, and whatever tools they may need to do that job should be theirs.

Again, I think you're right to feel that you should be allowed to own automatic weapons. But not because the police have them. I don't really think you should have a Tomahawk missile simply because the military does.

By the way, that show is horrible! I want to watch it so bad because of the fun toys, but the acting and the over-dramatization is truly unbearable.

 

[winchester1886]

At one time while working as a Deputy for a local Sheriffs Dept I wanted a HK MP5 the Dept. had several old Thompson Machine guns.They were inaccurate, heavy and I just didn't like them. After finding out the cost and that if I bought the weapon It would belong to the Sheriff Dept I thought better of It.To much money to donate.

 

[HorseSoldier]

Not just no.. but hell no. Cops are not (supposed to be) above the law.

So, since I stated I would vote in favor of amending the law or putting a new one on the books, I'm not sure where your plebian feathers got ruffled. If the law is changed, how can someone be above the law?

I like cops (not that you don't run across a jerk now and again), but their job really isn't that dangerous, and they do get a lot of perks and pay that people with far more dangerous and difficult jobs don't get.

Maybe not dangerous there on the mean streets of Kodiak, but mileage may vary elsewhere. Ann Coulter maybe failed to document just how many farmers or fishermen are shot to death or crippled in brawls or chases with people who're drunk, high, or just determined to do the wrong thing.

Edit to add -- Not sure how many farmers, fishermen, steel workers, or whoever else Coulter thinks has it worse that law enforcement are targetted for assassination by disgruntled members of the public, but it's another perk of law enforcement work. Example here.

A street with traffic that runs in both directions, that most people don't choose to travel on, and receive no monetary compensation for traveling down. One should not be more equal than the other.

Anyone I ever dealt with whose police contact amounted to more than a polite traffic stop (and I was always polite and appropriate, even if the guy doing 90 in a 55 zone thought I was just being mean to him and wanted to cuss and act like an idiot . . .) was absolutely there in that situation because they chose to be there. Usually they chose to be there by making not just one bad/antisocial/criminal decision but doing it again and again and again until the police got called or otherwise involved.

Now for a lot of them they failed to necessarily grasp they put themselves there, and failed to connect beating on their wife or killing a couple twelve packs before hitting the road with the police contact they then found themselves in, but I always took this to be a sign of the death of personal responsibility that people on this website are always bemoaning. It's kind of sad to see the "it's not my fault" logic cropping up among gun enthusiasts.

Anyway, I'll let you guys now return to your angry bemoaning the premise that some guy might have leveraged his position and contacts to get access to a full auto toy that others can't get.

 

[KJS]

One area that show disappoints me on is the NFA laws. The way the show goes, it tends to give the impression that anyone can cut a shotgun or rifle barrel down to 8", make a machine gun, or make a suppressor.

I only saw the show once, the episode where the guys built a .50 BMG machine gun from a kit of WWII-era parts.

Much of the general public is totally unaware of NFA restrictions. I can't say I know every NFA detail myself. But I've come across educated and otherwise intelligent people who seriously think one can walk into a gun shop and walk right out with a machine gun much the same as walking into a grocery store and exiting with a gallon of milk.

The media loves to feed upon such ignorance, making folks who know nothing about guns think an "assault weapons" ban has anything to do with true assault weapons that by definition are automatic weapons (unless you're a politician or gun-grabber in which case it means anything that looks like a military gun.) After all, you need a pretty high level of ignorance to get a law that for a decade banned guns on nonsense like having a bayonet lug, evidently to stop the rash to stabbings by gun that was sweeping the nation in the early 1990s.

Obviously, like any show they're out to get ratings. Nobody cares to watch ordinary Remington 870s & Glock 17s being sold unless their sleeping pill isn't working and they need something to put them out fast.

 

[PowerJoker6.0]

what i wanna know is if all those cops are getting paid by taxpayers to be on TV

 

[glock281]

There is nothing wrong with him having his weapon donated to the department as a Post-MfG machine gun on a form 5. Once it was converted, it was no longer "his" it belonged to the department. Now he can issue it him self if he wanted untill he was not longer elected sheriff then the next sheriff can do with it what they chose.