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Quoting airtran737 (Reply 3): Is it legal.....yes. Is it stupid....yes. I am an open carrier every day, but I open carry a Springfield XDS 9mm pistol, not my AR-15. This guy is trying to prove a point, and choosing a poor venue to do so. |
Quoting airtran737 (Reply 3): Is it legal.....yes. Is it stupid....yes. I am an open carrier every day, but I open carry a Springfield XDS 9mm pistol, not my AR-15. This guy is trying to prove a point, and choosing a poor venue to do so. |
Quoting airtran737 (Reply 3): Is it legal.....yes. Is it stupid....yes. I am an open carrier every day, but I open carry a Springfield XDS 9mm pistol, not my AR-15. This guy is trying to prove a point, and choosing a poor venue to do so. |
Quoting airtran737 (Reply 3): Is it legal.....yes. Is it stupid....yes. I am an open carrier every day, but I open carry a Springfield XDS 9mm pistol, not my AR-15. This guy is trying to prove a point, and choosing a poor venue to do so. |
Quoting BestWestern (Reply 2): If he was an Arab with a big beard... I wonder what would be the response |
Quoting karadion (Reply 11): It's not an assault rifle. Unless he happens to own an AR-15 manufactured before 1986 with the full auto mechanism which is very unlikely. AR does not stand for Assault Rifle but Armalite. |
Quoting airtran737 (Reply 3): Is it legal.....yes. Is it stupid....yes. |
Quoting airtran737 (Reply 3): I am an open carrier every day, but I open carry a Springfield XDS 9mm pistol, not my AR-15 |
Quoting airtran737 (Reply 3): This guy is trying to prove a point, and choosing a poor venue to do so. |
Quoting N766UA (Reply 5): Furthermore, if you're doing it in an airport, *especially* with an assault rifle, your ability to make sound decisions is seriously in question, and you shouldn't have a weapon. |
Quoting S75752 (Reply 6): I support open carry, but I also support limits on it where it would create commotion |
Quoting karadion (Reply 11): It's not an assault rifle. Unless he happens to own an AR-15 manufactured before 1986 with the full auto mechanism which is very unlikely. AR does not stand for Assault Rifle but Armalite. |
Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 12): 2. a nonmilitary weapon modeled on the military assault rifle, usually modified to allow only semiautomatic fire. |
Quoting TheCommodore (Reply 13): A federal airport, full of security forces, and he ,or anyone for that matter can walk on in with guns. Simply crazy. |
Quoting TheCommodore (Reply 13): But once you legislate for open carry, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. How do you really police it ? |
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Quoting DiamondFlyer (Reply 14): Is not an assault rifle, but thanks for playing. An assault rifle is select fire, which the odds of anyone carrying a $30,000 gun, is slim to none. |
Quoting karadion (Reply 15): 100% wrong. You clearly know nothing about the semi vs automatic functions especially the rules from the BATFE governing the definition of the term "assault rifle". |
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Quoting DiamondFlyer (Reply 14): Full of security forces? |
Quoting DiamondFlyer (Reply 14): The people who have zero armed capability, who also can't seem to find more than 5% of the explosives sent through a checkpoint? Yeah, they aren't security forces, they are security theater. |
Quoting karadion (Reply 16): Especially he was at the airport, he was risking the possibility of confiscation. |
Quoting karadion (Reply 18): It's where bad laws come from. |
Quoting TheCommodore (Reply 19): Don't you guys have your boarders (e.g. airports, boarder crossings and ports) patrolled by police and federal forces who are armed. |
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Quoting BestWestern (Reply 2): If he was an Arab with a big beard... I wonder what would be the response |
Quoting DiamondFlyer (Reply 14): Full of security forces? You mean the Thousands Standing Around? |
Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 17): I quoted and linked the dictionary that says the opposite of both your claims. |
Quoting karadion (Reply 18): And congratulations. People like you demonstrate why you are all extremely clueless about the mechanism of a SEMI-automatic vs an assault rifle. It's where bad laws come from. You skipped over the first CORRECT definition which contradicts the second one what some moron made up. |
Quoting trex8 (Reply 24): To be fair to 747400ERF he comes from a nation which for 3 decades after WW2 had a standard issue military rifle which only has semi automatic function, having deleted the full auto function from the model they chose, and which pretty much every army in the rest of the world retained if using that rifle. |
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Quoting seabosdca (Reply 22): Let's make the hypo even clearer: If he was an American citizen of Arab ancestry with a big beard... I wonder what would be the response? Or, for that matter, if he were an African-American man with dreads and a lot of red, yellow, and green fashion accessories, what would be the response? |
Quoting karadion (Reply 26): Nope, because you decided to attack me by using the extremely erroneous definition of the Assault Rifle. |
Quoting karadion (Reply 27): No because you are wrong. You demonstrate you clearly know nothing about "assault rifles". |
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Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 29): The definition varies among regulating jurisdictions, but usually includes semi-automatic firearms with a detachable magazine and a pistol grip, and sometimes other features such as a flash suppressor or barrel shroud.[1] |
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Quoting TheCommodore (Reply 19): But I understood he's not breaking any law, he's entitled to "open carry", even in airport apparently. So Im not sure why you say the owner will/could have it confiscated ? |
Quoting karadion (Reply 31): Again wrong. You are still defending the erroneous definition of the term "assault rifle" which anywhere else the term means a rifle with the capability to have selective fire. Again good job! You quoted the wrong thing. That is for "Assault Weapon". Understand the difference. "Assault Weapon" IS NOT "Assault Rifle". |
Quoting karadion (Reply 33): The wikipedia page I linked you is for the "Assault Weapon", not Assault Rifle. You can't even bother to look at the heading of the wikipedia page itself. Are you really digging yourself into this hole where you do not understand the difference of "Assault Weapon" vs "Assault Rifle"? |
Quoting N766UA (Reply 32): Is this acceptable at an airport to you? |
Quoting N766UA (Reply 32): Are you guys seriously arguing this? AR's are "assault style" weapons and, in common usage, termed "assault rifles." It doesn't matter how accurate it is. Furthermore, who cares if it has a sling, select fire, an ACOG scope, a freakin' pink grip... it is capable of slinging .556 down range and into people very, very quickly, semi-auto or not. Is this acceptable at an airport to you? |
Quoting DiamondFlyer (Reply 36): Yes, it's acceptable anywhere in this country, even in states which have decided that they are above the constitution of the United States. Is it wise? No. But since it's legal, its acceptable to me. |
Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 35): It is quite clearly stated in the dictionary definition I provided. |
Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 37): Wikipedia agrees |
Quoting karadion (Reply 39): Which is still wrong no matter how much you want to defend it. The actual definition of the "Assault Rifle" is governed by several different federal laws in the United States. The term "Assault Weapon" which you cited from to try to use against me is distinctly different. But you showed your lack of knowledge here that you know nothing about laws governing weapons especially from the BATFE, the National Weapons Act of 1934, and the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. The fact is the "Assault Rifle" is a selective fire weapon and that's the end of story. If you defended the word "Assault Weapon" I might disagree based on what cosmetic features was the guy sporting because that's what the definition is really about, cosmetics. |
Quoting DiamondFlyer (Reply 36): even in states which have decided that they are above the constitution of the United States. |
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Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 41): The Constitution is quite clear with the intent of the 2nd Amendment. Modern revisionism has changed this meaning, but people of militia age (males 18-49) who were either the regular militia (now the modern military and national guard) or the irregular militia (now the modern police forces) are what the amendment was designed for. To allow them to keep arms in defense. Do not bring the Constitution into this if you have changed the meaning to be so broad as to allow anyone with a pulse to carry weapons in public in the modern age. |
Quoting N766UA (Reply 40): Arguing just for the sake of arguing also hurts the case for responsible gun owners... |
Quoting N766UA (Reply 43): Meh, not being an American I'll give you a pass, but I promise that much in the way your AR debate is going, to say "militia-aged" and blah blah is semantics too. It's commonly accepted in the United States that we have a constitutional right to bear arms. All of us. Even the insane ones. |
Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 44): she is an emotional roller coaster that comes into every topic for a fight, and throws out insults at anyone that dares correct them |
Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 45): military aged blah blah? If it were just blah blah there would be no reason to use the word militia. And well regulated militia infact. This is not a mistake, nor is it merely "blah blah" and not important. Words have meanings. |
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