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I don't know no nuttin' bout replica scifi guns.

Complainant is an moron anyway - in what way does that look remotely like a Kalashnikov? Maybe a old BAR or a Barrett 82 or as I knew it, the M107 SASR

resembles a real rifle. The first thing I thought of when I saw it was the Barrett 82A1 .50 cal rifle. Take a look and compare. I think this person was justified to be concerned. I do doubt that the game geek that was carrying it looked very menacing though. http://www.barrettrifles.com/home/rifle_82.aspx

Think about it. It will probably be flying at around 1000 feet. It will also probably not right over your head. So the slant range is going to be pretty long. Next it will be flying at around 100 MPH.

So unless you get something better than your average gun odds are you will not hit one without a lot of luck. That and I would think anybody standing around pointing a gun at the sky letting off a lot of rounds is going to attract a lot of attention.

Now if you got a nut job geek then maybe they could build a DIY anti-aircraft gun but I think even that would tend to attract a lot of attention.

I suppose you could get one of these bad boys if you were wanting to do a little skeet shooting. Or, could you go the geek route and put together a really powerful EMP/HERF gun?

Well, if you get enough people with guns , say if a large part of the populace gets 'up in arms' literally...and they have a bunch of rifles from these guys make (I like the .50 cal 82A1 model myself), you'd have some serious firepower to go along with hope that if it was a large enough movement against something, that cops and soldiers (if they federalized and brought them in) aren't going to gun down that much of the populace, and might even join in.

For main line troops a BORS is a much simpler and rugged solution.

Were you just using this as an example...or are you trying to say in some states they have this type of ban on caliber guns you can get?

As far as I know, you can still buy 50 caliber rifles like this in most any state in the union?

Screw the paintballs, get a proper red light camera disruption device.

And your gun will do what, exactly, against tanks and choppers?

Well, for the choppers you have these, and their capacity to disable aircraft is exactly the reason given by anti-gunners to have them banned. Idiots.

For the tanks, one resistance group to the USSR upended soup bowls on the road to stop tanks, the crew thought they were mines. I do have the book I got that info from, but I'm in the middle of moving so it's packed away.

We need the right to bear arms and soup bowls! In an age of IEDs you could probably cause significant disruption to military movements by putting things on or near the road.

Anti-gunners lobby for bans to military weapons, and then say you don't need a right to bear arms because you can't take on the military because your weapons aren't good enough. It's some of the most obscene stupidity I've ever encountered.

The insurgency tactics being used in Iraq require access to things like plastic explosives and knowledge of bomb making. Those aren't available under your 2nd amendment rights, and if you tried to get them Homeland Security would come a-knocking.

You actually seem to be serious. The knowledge of how to make bombs has been around for a long time. Where I grew up, you could do a course in rural explosives for a few dollars. Any electronics text would show you all you need for detonators. Start stockpiling explosives and blowing things up and you'll probably get trouble, but you don't need to. The skills are widely known and the materials are impossible to restrict. There's no need for civilians to make bombs "just in case".

If the Iraqi insurgents were using the sort of guns available to American citizens they'd have lost a long time ago.

Yeah, if only we could restrict them to Barret 82A1's and SOCOM II's and other M1A variants. Of course, if they had these, the chance is very high that they could at some stage capture other weapons also, but let's ignore that.

Either way, I think it is now time for me to go get my 50 Cal rifle . And maybe stock up on a little ammo.

With my all-American Barrett M468, I'll simply take you cool Jap tech. Bwahahahaha!

http://www.barrettrifles.com/rifle_468.aspx

I haven't tested this one myself, Barrett Filter but I understand it is 100% effective at reducing spam from known sources. False positives may be a problem, however.

A Barrett .50 cal has a 10 round clip.

Well, not handguns so much, but, a readily available 50 caliber rifle that can pierce armor (I think) would certainly be a least a deterrent...

:-)

A poster above mentioned the possibility of a .50 caliber rifle shooting through a wall. But brute force aside, what about the extremely long range of these sniper rifles? Even with a high-zoom camera I doubt that the robot would catch the puff of smoke from one of these monsters 2,000 meters away:

Mind you, these rifles won't just kill people at that range, but they'll punch holes through armor or engine blocks in vehicles and aircraft from that distance. Talk about "reach out and touch someone."

>One of the more delusional excuses for this I've heard is that people have a right to defend their homes in war, armed revolution and the like. Bullcrap. The US civil population would stand as little chance as the Iraqi population if faced with the US Army (or a foreign army strong enough to defeat the US Army). Warfare has come a long way since the 1700s.

Yes, it has. For instance, anyone in the US can legally buy these and these. One person with good aim could do quite a bit of damage with them, even against military equipment.

I used to be a big proponent of shotguns, but nowadays with modern kevlar armor, you're really much better off with this. Or this for close quarters if you can illegally modify them.

The guy who's got one of these backing him up.

Some jack-hole thinks he needs a six foot long rifle to hold up a convenience store.

Come on. It isn't 6 feet long. It's only 57 inches long.

And the reason is fear. That thing will go through most "bullet proof" vests warn by police. They still remember the bank shootout and don't ever want to be out gunned, even if that isn't necessarily a rational fear.

The People's Republic of California has publicly declared sniper/hunter/target shooter types unwelcome here, and come Jan 1st, 2005, rifles chambering .50 BMG here will be classified as "assault weapons" and subject to ban/registration/confiscation/destruction, thanks to our overzealous Citizen's Protection Committee in Sacramento.

So for them to be of any 'good', would they allow small nuclear devices?
Or MRLS?
What about small anti aircraft rockets?

I mean... Come on. Who knows what the thieves will think of next, better put a minefield in your garden. Why go for some crappy .50 cal rifle when you could be packing one of these:
Needed for home defence

me to introduce Snotty Scotty to a little friend .

is with one of these: Barrett