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Who needs a 50 cal sniper rifle? http://www.securityarms.com/20010315/galleryfiles/ 0900/988.htm/

The liberator pistols (and probably the Vietnam era Deer Guns too) have been melted down as scrap. The Deer Gun had to be reloaded by poking out the spent shell casing with a stick and then reloading by hand with one round of .45ACP. The Vietnam version, called the Deer Gun required its user to unscrew the barrel to reload its single shot of 9x19mm parabellum.

More info can be found right here.

"False. Militia means individuals."

Actually, it refers to the colonial militia, also known as Minutemen (referring to the short period of time they needed to be ready to fight). You would do well to read this for a bit of historical context.

"That's why they said militia and not army. An army would be an organized force. The militia is all the people who volunteer to be called whenever they are needed, or even those who do not volunteer."

An army refers to a permanent group of professional soldiers. A militia refers to a group of people (generally young, poor men) who either volunteer or are compelled to 'volunteer' to come together in time of need to defend their state or colony. A militia is still organized by the colony or state in which its members reside. You can think of militiamen as modern-day reserve soldiers, the so-called 'weekend warriors' who have some basic training, but are only called to active duty when needed.

"The second ammendment protects and individual right. Every examination of the historical documents shows that this was the intention... even the previous drafts of the bill of rights are consistent with that view."

What an interesting assertion. Now please provide evidence to support it.

"And the definition of the word is clear enough."

To a closed or simple mind, it most certainly is. To those of us who seek truth, it's rather ambiguous on its face, but becomes a bit clearer through contextual clues. The only thing called a 'militia' at the time was the colonial militias maintained by each colony. To extend that to all individuals is to say that everyone was in the colonial militia, which simply isn't true. The colonial militias were very specific fighting forces maintained (read: regulated) by their respective colonies.

"The idea that only the military and police should have guns"

When did I or anyone else (save Michael Moore) say that? The ACLU never said that all guns are bad. Does the woman you mention need an AR-16 to ward off her attacker? Who is this juggernaut? The Incredible Hulk? Just what is it that she could do with an AKS-74 that she couldn't do with a glock (besides kill the 50 people unlucky enough to be somewhere nearby)? I'm all in favor of having guns for self-defense and hunting, unless you're hunting deer in Bosnia, there doesn't seem to be a need to have an RPG-7 Saitan Truba 40mm Russian Grenade Launcher. Perhaps you live in a neighborhood dangerous enough to require such a device, but I'm afraid I know of no such place.

And you still fail to answer my question regarding arms controls. Is the government constitutionally allowed to prevent an individual from building nuclear weapons?

M1911 Marine MEU (SOC)?

I can see the attraction.

With a light.
Ho-ly moly.
Clean and mean.

That last one has the interesting quote of a quote, "In the February 1999 American Rifleman, the author of "America's 9mm's", James P. Cowgill states, "One reason for the change to a 9mm service pistol was the increasing number of women in the military. They have statistically smaller hands and were often issued revolvers as opposed to the larger M1911A1".

The USMC's site for it.

deer gun

http://www.securityarms.com/20010315/galleryfiles/ 0900/968.htm