Looking to get a handgun

[barkomatic]

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In the USA, in most places, owning a handgun/shotgun/rifle is legal provided one is not a convicted felon, mentally incompetent, on psychiatric medicines, or under a certain age. Most states require background checks to verify the aforementioned things.

However, those states allow a person who was *voluntarily* committed to a psychiatric facility to purchase a gun correct? I can't recall, but it seems this was an issue with one of the rampaging workplace shootings recently.

 

[TheSVD]

Yes, very much so.


Yep.

Usually an introduction is required as well.

ahh i do apologise... again, haha. i am a fan of japan and its culture, i don't know much about it though my brother studies japanese at university and he confirmed this for me, i did feel rather stupid!

ahh cool, i thought that stuff was only in the movies... crazy that it actually happens! why is it deemed so 'dangerous' though.. surely any respected smith/seller produces instruments of death regardless of these 'special'/other ones?

sorry, i am rather intrigued

 

[sushi]

And the sound it makes when chambering a round speaks many, many languages.

Multi-lingual it is!

I would venture to say that with Hollywood and real world experiences, that a round being chambered in a shotgun is one of the most recognizable sounds in the world.

I remember when I was deep into martial arts and someone asked me what I would do if they tried such and such. I calmly explained to them that I also belong to the click click (auto pistol chambering sound) bang gang and would simply shoot them. Much easier to shoot someone and be done with it.

 

[leomac08]

You obviously don't know about Compton.

I live in Inglewood, CA similar to Compton...! I hear a 9mm being shot almost every week in my hood. That's why I support gun-control.

 

[theITGuy]

I live in Inglewood, CA similar to Compton...! I hear a 9mm being shot almost every week in my hood. That's why I support gun-control.

So let me ask you this...Canada has a no-handgun policy...yet the criminals always have them and use them...so unless we can get a worldwide gun control policy, destroy all handguns already manufactured, stop new ones from being made...how do you suppose we stop the bad guys from getting guns?

-J.-

 

[Lurchdubious]

So let me ask you this...Canada has a no-handgun policy...yet the criminals always have them and use them...so unless we can get a worldwide gun control policy, destroy all handguns already manufactured, stop new ones from being made...how do you suppose we stop the bad guys from getting guns?

-J.-

Exactly. Gun control is a joke and doesn't address the issue: Armed criminals.

 

[sjinsjca]

Exactly. Gun control is a joke and doesn't address the issue: Armed criminals.

Which is why "gun control" is a poor name for the concept.

Call it what it is: victim disarmament.

 

[dmr727]

Well, I'm impressed that the thread went five pages before veering off topic to PRSI land. Oh well.

 

[Ttownbeast]

the gun control issue reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzFWRPiNXOI

 

[theITGuy]

Well, I'm impressed that the thread went five pages before veering off topic to PRSI land. Oh well.

well first it evolved to a discussion on Katanas and Japanese culture

-J.-

 

[dmr727]

well first it evolved to a discussion on Katanas and Japanese culture

True. I'd just hate to see this thread, which contains a lot of helpful information, banished to PRSI because a couple people feel they have to chime in about gun control.