That's exactly why I can hooey on the "freedom ranking" in another thread. Very few of those countries ranked above the US allow gun ownership and use in self-defense.Take a deep breath and consider what follows: I have never owned a gun and hope I never have to, but I want to have the right to do so if I wish - and the right to use a gun in defence of myself and my home. In fact, I do not think that I am a free citizen unless I have these rights.
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- Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:47 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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I think this is the most pertinent paragraph:
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:15 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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Re: UK's 'biggest weapons haul'
Well, when guns are illegal, if you're going to have an illegal gun, why not go for full auto? Making guns illegal is an incentive to get the best weaponry you can if you're going to break the law. The UK just put an 88 year old man in prison for having a shotgun in his car. He was afraid of some thugs that had been threatening him and his wife. They didn't even look for the thugs. So this guy might as well have had a full auto AK instead of a shotgun.AndyC wrote:Something from a French website - I can read basic French, but I used Google translate (for what it's worth) to give those of you who can't some idea of the scale of the issue:
Continued at the original link here: http://www.rtl.fr/actu/3-a-7-millions-d ... 77520302723 - 7,000,000 arms circulate illegally in France
The weapons of war, which used Kalashnikov Wednesday for killing a man 25 years in Marseille, are trivialized if in a few years in France, both small arming thugs that organized crime, in particular because of their low cost.
15,000 weapons of Kalashnikov type of war
For many years, specialists and police officials are sounding the alarm, citing "an anarchic proliferation" of weapons of war, especially in cities, insisting for months on their use increasingly common.
According to experts, nearly 15,000 weapons of Kalashnikov type of war circulate in the French suburbs, against 3-7 million weapons that find themselves illegally in France. But there are no official statistics on the subject. These weapons can be "pooled" to a neighborhood, for different teams, for acts ranging from the attack on van eg simple settlement personal account.
"Before, a hoodlum used a shotgun to resolve his personal problems. There, as it can have a Kalashnikov 'on hand, well he uses it because it is denied in night clubs, and that's a lot more damage, "said a specialist, for whom the mapping of war weapons wife that of drug trafficking.
From 500 to 2,000 euros weapon (1 Euro equals = 1.11 US Dollar )
The success of these particular weapons held at cost. For example, the price of a Kalashnikov on the black market, is between "500 euros for a poor quality weapons" and "1,000 to 2,000 euros" for a weapon coming the former Yugoslavia, according to a specialist. "It's become so easy to procure the thugs easily use," said a police source.
A source close to French intelligence, the French market is supplied by "petty crime - maximum ten weapons each time - which still come mainly from the former Yugoslavia, hidden in trucks or buses via Italy. "