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Offline swashmebuckle

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Oh wait, so there really is no need for teflon-coated bullets?
As a red blooded American man, I reserve the right to fry up bacon on my non-stick ammo belts.  You can pry them out of my cold dead fingers.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Oh wait, so there really is no need for teflon-coated bullets?

I really hate this misconception. The bullets aren't Teflon-coated. The Teflon burns off in firing, because the bullets are hardened materials that might otherwise damage the rifling and the bore. The Teflon has nothing to do with their penetrative capablities.
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Offline karajorma

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So they are Teflon-coated then.

It's just that they aren't any more when they hit you.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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So they are Teflon-coated then.

Gun nomenclature: if it doesn't come out of the front end, it's not a part of the bullet, it's a part of the cartridge. :P
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Offline Kosh

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"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Janos

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Some statistics on homicide rates in the US per state  and percentages caused by guns, knifes, and other

the top of that list reads like someone took a murder rate from a token western european country and then ADDED gun deaths loololol


lol wtf

 

Offline redsniper

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Is there a way to know if a source is really accurate?
Of course not. Nothing can be known with absolute certainty.
Also, I didn't know that Texas has more people than New York.
Texas is pretty dang big. Between Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin you've already got several million people, and then there are tons of medium-sized cities and even more small towns on top of that. Except in west Texas. There's nothing there.
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Apparently the WV DH site has removed the detailed study.

http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/hsc/briefs/eleven/default.htm

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Offline Kosh

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Texas is pretty dang big. Between Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin you've already got several million people, and then there are tons of medium-sized cities and even more small towns on top of that. Except in west Texas. There's nothing there.


True, but the rate is per 100,000 people. Plus there were several much smaller states that had higher rates.

I thought it was funny that  of the worst 15 states, 2/3 consistently vote republican. 
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Offline Liberator

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Texas is pretty dang big. Between Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin you've already got several million people, and then there are tons of medium-sized cities and even more small towns on top of that. Except in west Texas. There's nothing there.


True, but the rate is per 100,000 people. Plus there were several much smaller states that had higher rates.

I thought it was funny that  of the worst 15 states, 2/3 consistently vote republican. 

The common factor?  Drunk rednecks...
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Many names, but always me.

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Does that help, or hurt the argument?
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Offline Liberator

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If you had ever been around a redneck you'd understand....
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

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I have, its one of the reasons i think there should be regulated gun control.
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Offline karajorma

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Ah, but how do you plan to regulate it to keep guns out of the hands of "crazy rednecks" without breaking the 2nd amendment?
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Ah, but how do you plan to regulate it to keep guns out of the hands of "crazy rednecks" without breaking the 2nd amendment?

The same way I have advocated before, but in short: and appropriate licensing program that includes training and education, wait periods, background checks, interviews, and penalties for misconduct, probably at the federal level, or at least common enough across the states to make it consistent (similar to drivers licenses in spirit). I actually like the format of the MA licensing, the in practice bit could be greatly improved, but the intention appeals to my sense of right/wrong and fairness.

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Any way we can get the neocon Obama bashing split from the relatively sane debate on guns we were having?
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Offline Scotty

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Answer:  New thread.

I wanna talk about guns Damnit!

 

Offline Liberator

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What kind?
Little ones?

Big ones?

or ones in between

 :D
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The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Offline Dilmah G

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I was thinking more along the lines of this baby



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