2LaneCruzer
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When we used to baby sit our twin Grandsons, the guns were never loaded. It's another matter when it's just Sharn Jean and myself.
Home Invasion...Short scary video...Be prepared...!
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When we used to baby sit our twin Grandsons, the guns were never loaded. It's another matter when it's just Sharn Jean and myself.
I will put one in my yard if you will put a sign saying you have guns in yours. Before you open your can of vicious attack and call me the old stand by "Liberal", I probably have more guns than you and others that post on this forum. That I think is my business. I also think it is someone else's "RIGHT" to not own a gun if they don't want to and they should not be ridiculed, demeaned or asked to post a sign saying anything about a "Gun Free Zone".
Something a lot of people seem to forget, we as American citizen have our rights as set forth in the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Amendments, no where does it say because we believe in something we have a "Right" to force this "Belief" onto others.
Are you saying all guns you own are registered to you? I think this would be a rarity.
2LaneCruzer
Super Member
That's what we've been to tell the liberals...
TomSeller
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I know someone who was having their grandkids come over the next day so he put all his guns and ammo in his attic and went to bed. During the night he heard noises in the house and thought his daughter and grandkids decided to come over early so he and his wife just rolled over and went back to sleep. Turned out someone broke into his house and was robbing him. Under the circumstances it was probably better that he did not get up, but talk about a bad time to have hidden your guns.
2LaneCruzer
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Depends on what you mean by registered. If you own 50 guns and bought them new from a gun dealer in the last few years, then yeah, they are "registered" in a sense. If your 50 guns have been collected ... legally... over the last 50 or 60 years, then many, and perhaps most, will not be "registered"...but of course you know that. My first gun, a .22 rifle, was manufactured prior to WWII. My Dad bought it from the guy that bought it new...he paid $5 in about 1942. It does not even have a serial number.
I read what the man said as meaning that guns taken from criminals were not registered to them for various reasons...probably because many of them were felons and could not guy a gun legally, and so procured them by theft or buying them on the street, and others, because they intended to use them illegally, were not dumb enough to us a gun that could be traced back to them. The point being that only law abiding folks buy their guns through legal means, and if registration is designed to connect the registration back to a criminal, then registration as a concept is a failure. But you know that too.
Only licensed Gun Dealers are required to do back ground checks on firearm sales. I know several people that buy and sell firearms. If looking for a new firearm they would be my first stop. The weapon would not be "New" but it would perform as advertised. The only purchase requirement being cash.
kevin37b
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Why would you open the door ? Around here if they didn't kick it in you would be liable.That old boy is a hero in my books .
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Preface: I am conservative, pro-gun and pro-NRA, anti-gun registration, pro-2nd amendment and pro-self defense.
Here's what bothers me about this story. The guy hears someone on the front porch, opens the door and shoots the person where he stands. While there is no doubt in my mind that the bad guy probably would have tried to harm the guy in the house if he got in, it seems to me that this case would be ripe for a law suit since the bad guy didn't break and enter. It was the cop's word agains the word of the "bad gal" as to what happened since the bad guy is dead (I think?). She could claim they stopped to ask directions or something.
I always heard that in such a situation, you would be better off, legally, to drag the bad guy inside so there was some evidence that he was going to cause harm.
Reminds me of Biden telling people to shoot through the door with a shotgun if you hear someone on the front porch.
Seems to me that the best course of action in this case would have been to call the police and tell them there was a prowler, then, be ready with the weapon(s) in case they actually did break in.
On the other hand, the home owner certainly has a right to open his front door without being assaulted, so I guess I can see that side of it too.
Here's what bothers me about this story. The guy hears someone on the front porch, opens the door and shoots the person where he stands. While there is no doubt in my mind that the bad guy probably would have tried to harm the guy in the house if he got in, it seems to me that this case would be ripe for a law suit since the bad guy didn't break and enter. It was the cop's word agains the word of the "bad gal" as to what happened since the bad guy is dead (I think?). She could claim they stopped to ask directions or something.
I always heard that in such a situation, you would be better off, legally, to drag the bad guy inside so there was some evidence that he was going to cause harm.
Reminds me of Biden telling people to shoot through the door with a shotgun if you hear someone on the front porch.
Seems to me that the best course of action in this case would have been to call the police and tell them there was a prowler, then, be ready with the weapon(s) in case they actually did break in.
On the other hand, the home owner certainly has a right to open his front door without being assaulted, so I guess I can see that side of it too.
TomSeller
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Right, it is not a crime to carry a bat and wear a hoodie. It is a crime to break into a house. I would have called 911 and positioned for a clean shot, then emptied the gun to make sure.
