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MP3 Player In An AK-47 Magazine
Comrade Pikachu writes "These guys have apparently fit a hard drive based MP3 player into a Kalashnikov ammunition clip. They are accepting pre-orders now. It fits into a standard AK-47 and comes pre-loaded with over 200 audio books. Listen to Poe on your assault rifle!" Audiobooksforfree also is one of the few places I've found online with free (low-fi) audiobooks -- for greater fidelity, you can buy files or pre-loaded hard drives, or (at long last) this unorthodox player.
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Hey man, good luck even getting this in the first place. If it comes through the regular mail, it's likely to be delivered in person by FBI/RCMP/Federale/MI5/(your national police force here) officers...;)
If it's couriered, it's likely to be inspected by their internal security and then reported to the above just the same...
Even if you get it, how long can you use it before your shot by a state trooper of you lodal police service when they see it and decide not to question you as to the location of the rest of the Kalashnikov...
Gotta love the Patriot Act...
Never by hatred has hatred been appeased, only by kindness - the Buddha
Did I already mention that you americans are in deep shit ;-)
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The mp3 player is silly, but has anyone tried any of the free audio books the site offers? They seem to offer all of their books for free in an inconvenient and low-quality manner, while charging for convenience and quality. Are the free quality books listenable?
You're very wrong. I'm a Canadian with my Restricted and Unrestricted PALs, and the magazine itself is not illegal. Sure, owning fully autos is illegal, but so what? What on Earth makes a clip "auto" or "semi-auto?" It's just a clip - it holds ammo. The action of the rifle that'll hold it is completely unrelated. It could be either.
... I think it's 7 rounds in Canada. But this isn't a clip anymore. It's just an MP3 player that happens to look like an ammo clip.
Yes, it is illegal to have a magazine that'll hold more than
This would get through customs no problem.
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
Seriosuly, this would not even be legal in the state of California
Did you look at it? It's not the standard AK 30 round clip but the short sporting clip which holds 10 rounds, legal to sell and own under the current laws.
Bringing it on a plane... I certainly wouldn't. Pass it through the xray, they see a strange electronic device with batteries... what are they gonna think? You pull it out and it's a magazine to an AK and you're toast. Hell, it might even contain some chemical powder residue detectible by the sniffers, then you're really hosed.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
At least, that's how it would go down in a civilized nation. Don't know how it would go down in Canada.
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Need I remind you that last year the capital of your "civilized nation" alone has a murder rate nearly 48 times that of my entire nation -> Washington DC, 48.5 murders per 100 000 people, compared to the entire country of Canada, 1.78 murders per 100 000 people. Also of note from Stats Canada on murders involving guns:
"Of the 171 firearm-related homicides, 110 were committed with a handgun, 46 with a rifle or shotgun, 7 with a sawed-off rifle or shotgun, 3 with a fully automatic firearm, and 5 with another type of firearm.
Handguns were used in 65% of all firearm homicides. This proportion has risen from 46% in 1998 as a result of the continuing decline in the number of homicides involving rifles or shotguns."
That's out of 554 total murders in the entire country of 32 million during 2001. Compare that to Los Angeles, with 658 murders in the same time, but with 1/3 the population.
In the "civilized nation" 65.6%of all the murders were committed with a firearm during the same time.
Hmmmm, perhaps there are some people who are "too stupid to have a gun".
Say what you will about "mummy government", I am quite safe from gun violence here as are my children. That is, after all, why I elected my governement - to ensure my life, liberty and security of the person.
If all you have protecting you from sending ammo clips through the mail is a minimum wage postal clerk, then you have the country you deserve...
Never by hatred has hatred been appeased, only by kindness - the Buddha
The demographics do not support you. (Canada has a greater urban/non-urban ratio than the US).
As for your "Statistics", the site you link is <sarcasm> wonderfully unbiased. </sarcasm> Please consult the crime statisitics of any nation (your no doubt fair choice) with more restrictive gun control for an example of a country with less gun violence.
As for health care: Canadians pay 1/10 what we do per capita, and get health care for everybody. No doubt you'll say our (well, your) healthcare is better. But is it 10 times better? I'd gladly pay 1/5 what I do now for twice the health care of a Canadian. Hell, I'd pay what I do now for the health care of a Canadian (with similar hassle lack), and I've got supposedly above average benefits. For-profit health insurance is just plain stupid. The actuarial tables are well known; why throw away money (the vast majority of it!) on inefficiencies and profits for middlemen? Sorry, you hit a pet peave of mine: claiming the US Health system is good. It's not. It's the worst in the industialized world. Even the people getting served (you and me) are paying way too much for no reason. It's not even an academic argument; every other western nation has an objectively better system. It pisses me off. The sentence "Iceland is seriously kicking our ass on this" just shouldn't apply to anything, dammit.
don't you think, there is something wrong with this?
maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem quite OK.
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the only time i felt comfortable around gun-carrying people was during my time at the army. it was a controlled environment with people, who were actually trained to handle a weapon. i just can't imagine being in public, and everybody could be a gun-owning sicko!
how comes your way of thinking? were you raised in times of war?
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Your wasting your time. Americans are brought up to love their country with a passion, the entire schooling system is based on instilling nationalistic pride. It is logistically imposible for them to even think for a moment that it may not be the best place in the world.
And you think it's different in other, so-called civilized, places of the world?
As an American living in the Netherlands and having traveled extensively through Europe my most depressing impression of the cultures here is that the people are just blindly nationalistic as Americans.
It sure is nice to have a scapegoat like America to point at and say "we're not like that", but the level of difference is minmal at best. So don't kid yourself too much.
i'm just not used to it and can not understand why anybody should carry a gun around.
where i live, you would get your ass sued if you used a weapon in a personal conflict. if you get attacked, you are allowed to counter the attack by reasonable means. and a gun is very high on that list.
maybe it is just a regional problem, but the crime statistics don't justify carrying a weapon in my country.
if you are not a criminal and if you don't work under personal danger (e.g. for the police), you don't carry a gun. it's easy.
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what a waste of ressources