banning AR-15s won't help. no one but some (not all) of the law-abiding will turn theirs in. criminals sure as hell won't. someone that wants to commit murder isn't gonna give one little fuck about the penalties for having the gun. even IF (very large for a 2 letter word) you could somehow find/confiscate every single AR-15 in existence, the number of mass shootings will not decrease. this is a people problem, and folks need to stop blaming the tool. killers just go to a different weapon. if i was hunting body count, i'd be hauling around a pump shotgun with an extended tube & be practicing my speed loading. watch some of the folks using them in competition. shooting double or triple 000 buckshot into a crowd is nearly as efficient a way to kill large numbers of folks as a fully automatic weapon, maybe more so given the difficulty of controlling a FA.
What's really funny is since Disney bought Warner Bros, they own MASH. So Max is a Disney Princess now.
i am a big 2A supporter but the point im making is the republicans think that a ban of AR-15's = the end of the 2nd Amendment and it wouldnt be.
but that WON'T be the end of it. once they get a taste of success, they'll come back for more after they see it didn't end shootings.
i don't own/need one either. i have a 19th century assault rifle, a lever-action 30-30.
no, but it would be the BEGINNING of the end. gun banners will not stop with the "gun du jour" , and only damn fools think this is true. no sense in stepping out onto a slippery slope.
i'm sorry that they were embarrassing chicken-shits that did not want to do the job they were hired/paid to do. i much more appreciate how the Nashville police showed up 12 minutes after the 9-1-1 call was made and killed the shooter within 2 minutes of arrival.
i'm wanting a Marlin in 45-70. be just the thing to have if a herd of bison stampede through my yard.
had a Ruger #3 in that caliber once. the one gun i have sold that i -really- regret. WTF was i thinking? 
Years ago I worked with a guy who had a 45-70 barrel for his Contender handgun. It was his deer hunting gun. I never did shoot it because it's a 45-70 round in a handgun and that is stupid(ly awesome).
nor will they stop advocating a gun ban after every school shooting and currently there isnt enough public outcry for their wishes to be enacted into law.
im with you on this but on the next school shooting involving a suspect armed with an AR-15 lets hope the cops responding act like those who responded to the Nashville school shooting.
70 grains? i used 110 grains of Pyrodex behind the solid Buffalo bullets (no longer made) in my muzzleloader. it was "interesting" to shoot. used to have some handloads from a friend he put together for hunting bears. almost same muzzle velocity as some .458 Win Mag rounds. NOT fun, but neither is dealing with a wounded bear...
black powder seems to be a "push" to me rather than an abrupt "SLAM!" like you get from smokeless powder.
