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How, pray tell, would you "easily" convert a muzzle loading firearm to use regular ammunition?

I will give you one example, please go to the store and compare
Uberti Cattleman Cap&ball revolver .44
Uberti Cattleman .45Colt or .45ACP

I own both kinds.

Compare also modern replica of Cap&Ball Sharps rifle in .45
with Sharps rifle .45-70
at the same time look at the trapdoor conversion.

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Uberti (Beretta of Italy) makes better replicas than Colt of their own guns for one third of the price!

Not all revolvers have flip-out cylinders; Ruger Blackhawks and many Uberti models, for example. The only way to de-cock a Ruger Blackhawk is to pull the trigger - kind of hard to do safely while trying to insert a key in the trigger lock and turn it, while somehow blocking the pin from the hammer. Then, consider trying to do so at 2 AM, in the dark, as you hear an intruder bearing down towards your bedroom door.

That's not even mentioning semi-automatics...

Manually reloaded? I'm not sure what you mean.

The Ruger Mini-14 is a typical hunting rifle, semiautomatic action, that uses magazines that are similar to NATO STANAG (they look like AR-15) but lower capacity.
The Remington 1100 is a typical hunting shotgun, semiautomatic action, capable of firing 00-buckshot, where each shotshell contains 8+ pellets, each potentially lethal on a human-sized target.
The Uberti Revolving Carbine is a fancy black-powder muzzleloader, suitable for hunting, that can fire six .44-caliber shots before reloading, thanks to a revolving breech (like a revolver pistol). And it's not even Federally a firearm, since it doesn't use fixed ammunition.

These three weapons are also specifically identified as hunting rifles in the expired Assault Weapons Ban. They are so far in the realm of intentioned and effective hunting weapons that they were called out.

Don't kid yourself, the only reason it was changed to exlude the private IM'ing was because of the bad publicity and outcry all over the internet and news channels...they are trying to spin it off as a 'mistake' to save public face.

"Justin Uberti, chief architect for AIM, also joined the discussion, admitting the controversial section of the terms of service was "vague" and needed to be reworded"

If he thought it was so vague, why the hell was the wordage ever approved in the 1st place? Probably because the guy never looked at them before they became (almost) frontpage news.

mmmmmm....yeaaahhh...suurrree...

So the Terms of Service don't apply to these either?

mmmmmm....yeaaahhh...suurrree...

So the Terms of Service don't apply to these either?

Uberti explained on his Weblog that the amount of IM traffic on the AIM network "is on the order of hundreds of gigabytes a day."

"It would be very costly, and we have no desire to record all IM traffic. We don't do it," Uberti wrote.

Ooh, hundreds of gigabytes a day, it would be very costly to record all that traffic. Gee, Dr. Evil, what does a 100 Gigabyte storage device cost? One Million Dollars?

Not to quote the lion's share of the article here, but there are some things that need to be seen...

The tweaks to the terms of service will be made in the section titled "Content You Post" and will explicitly exclude user-to-user chat sessions from the privacy rights an AIM user gives up to AOL.

"We're not making any policy changes. We're making some linguistic changes to clarify certain things and explain it a little better to our users," AOL spokesperson Andrew Weinstein told eWEEK.com.

The modifications will use similar language from the AIM privacy policy to "make it clear that AOL does not read private user-to-user communications," Weinstein said.

[...]

More importantly, Weinstein said a blunt and inelegant line that reads "You waive any right to privacy" will be deleted altogether.

"That's a phrase that should not have been in that section in the first place. It clearly caused confusion, with good reason," Weinstein conceded.

[...]

Justin Uberti, chief architect for AIM, also joined the discussion, admitting the controversial section of the terms of service was "vague" and needed to be reworded.

Uberti explained on his Weblog that the amount of IM traffic on the AIM network "is on the order of hundreds of gigabytes a day."

"It would be very costly, and we have no desire to record all IM traffic. We don't do it," Uberti wrote.

For AIM users who remain distrustful, Uberti pointed out that the application offers Direct IM (aka Send IM Image) and Secure IM in all recent versions.

"In other words, you can send your IMs in such a way that they never go through our servers, and/or are encrypted with industry-standard SSL and S/MIME technology. I know this since I designed these features. There are no backdoors; I would not have permitted any," Uberti said.

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