Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
Cool!
I have been watching the gun community's reception of all these "simulated full auto" devices and it's been sort of funny.
We all laugh at the old idea of the "Fudd" gun owner who thinks guns are just for bustin' bunnies and ducks and slaying that one deer a year, and throws handgunners or machine-gun owners, or concealed carry types to the wolves come election time. We THINK we're more enlightened than that.
But when something new comes out that pushes the boundaries of what we're used to, we're still a deeply conservative bunch. "Great for wastin' ammo!" "Turns money into noise!" "Not accurate, so that's stupid!" "Immature..." "Bunch of idiots blastin' up ammo by the pallet..." And so on.
It has taken several years for even maybe a third of the gun community to start to give these things a second look and treat them with any seriousness, instead of knee-jerk disdain.
And really, we understand the 2nd Amendment to be a deeply revolutionary idea -- that, as Tench Coxe said, "Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans." But when someone comes up with a way to put "military style" automatic weapons (albeit "simulated" through a mechanical work-around) back in the hands of the American civilian, "we" (the gunny community) acts like this is the silliest thing we ever heard of and we aught to ban these chuckleheads from our ranges and laugh them out of our midst.
I have been watching the gun community's reception of all these "simulated full auto" devices and it's been sort of funny.
We all laugh at the old idea of the "Fudd" gun owner who thinks guns are just for bustin' bunnies and ducks and slaying that one deer a year, and throws handgunners or machine-gun owners, or concealed carry types to the wolves come election time. We THINK we're more enlightened than that.
But when something new comes out that pushes the boundaries of what we're used to, we're still a deeply conservative bunch. "Great for wastin' ammo!" "Turns money into noise!" "Not accurate, so that's stupid!" "Immature..." "Bunch of idiots blastin' up ammo by the pallet..." And so on.
It has taken several years for even maybe a third of the gun community to start to give these things a second look and treat them with any seriousness, instead of knee-jerk disdain.
And really, we understand the 2nd Amendment to be a deeply revolutionary idea -- that, as Tench Coxe said, "Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans." But when someone comes up with a way to put "military style" automatic weapons (albeit "simulated" through a mechanical work-around) back in the hands of the American civilian, "we" (the gunny community) acts like this is the silliest thing we ever heard of and we aught to ban these chuckleheads from our ranges and laugh them out of our midst.