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Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle
sv_libertarian writes 'A panicked person in Kirkland, WA called local police on Wednesday, claiming they saw someone walking down the street with an AK-47. It was actually a Bungie employee carrying an overgrown model of a Halo sniper rifle, which resembles an AK-47 as much as a Volkswagen resembles a Formula 1 racer.'
Halo 3: ODST is set to launch on September 22nd, and fans got some new details and early looks at the game during PAX.
In many States, you can get a class 3 firearms permit. My State of
Texas is one of those. After passing a background check and taking the time
to fill out some forms, you can legally own a fully automatic weapon. You
pay a gun stamp tax, and can apply to sell them also.
This guy has the right to face his accusers in a court of law. He should
have gotten a lawyer and requested the idiot's identity who reported him.
It would cost a bit, but would educate the moron, and possibly more who
read about the trial.
Good. Hopefully one day they will succeed in completely disarming America. All guns SHOULD be illegal for anybody to own or use. There is absolutely no need for them and many problems would be eliminated without them around.
and if I saw you call the police just because someone was calmly walking around carrying a weapon in broad daylight (a pretty big tip off that they're not going to kill anyone),
Don't be absurd, did you even look at the picture of the gun? There's no reason to carry what looks like a sniper rifle out in public.
I might organized a lynch mob to take care of you and protect society from your kind in the future.
Awww, little guy needs a mob to back him up? Even with all his swords and guns? It's the people who feel they need to carry weapons who are the cowards. I don't carry a gun because I can handle myself without one.
Just because you're terrified of anything that moves
See above. The fact that you threaten me over the internet, and even then admit you need a "mob" to help you, tells me all I need to know about you. Some pasty, white, suburban, middle class kid who probably crosses over to the other side of the street when he sees someone who he thinks is scary.
I moved a couple months ago
To some gated community no doubt.
and was worried some idiot like you would call the cops of me because they saw me carrying my swords into the new place
If you're so profoundly stupid to equate carrying something that looks like a sniper rifle through town with carrying swords into a private home, then there's no hope for you.
I don't own a gun and I'm willing to bet that I could take you out just fine on my own with no weapons. However, a show of force to get the message out how many people are sick of incompetent cowards like you might get others of your kind to leave people alone and quit crying about everything.
Haha, you are such a caricature of the typical breathless internet libertarian that it makes me laugh.
I've probably spent more time in some of the worst neighborhoods in major cities than you have, and I never felt worried (hell, I laughed at my friends who were scared going through there) because I know that I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself.
Bzzzt, sorry, grew up in NYC in the 80's during the crack epidemic and have spent plenty of time in real rough neighborhoods, and not as a tourist like you.
Not that long ago (50 years, tops) no one freaked out if you had a gun.
50 years ago people didn't just carry around guns because they could, they carried them for a purpose. They tended not to carry them openly through cities.
People fear what they do not understand - to them a gun is a scary magical thing that can kill you even if no one is holding it (kind of like how the moronic masses think that there's a magic key on the keyboard that will delete every file on your computer if you hit it while in a word processor). You do not have experience with guns and as such, they are foreign to you and you fear them. I suggest you take a class or go to a firing range and get over your phobia.
Wrong again, my young simpleton, I guarantee that I have been using firearms longer than you've been born. I just have the common sense to use them in somewhat rural areas, or at a firing range.