Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Well Dang! Dick Cheney is ok with a new high cap mag ban

FWIW I don't give a flyingfuck what Cheney thinks about gays. It doesn't concern me. What concerns me are my guns, keeping them, being able to use them to defend my family and maybe hunt a bit, etc. Did I already say [bleep] Cheney. Oh yeah, I did, but [bleep] him again.

No, it doesn't make him a POS. Thinking it's okay to ban high cap magazines makes Cheney a POS. Any questions?

Just one question. What legislation can Cheney pass?

None, obviously. But what sound bites and reinforcement can he give the Democratic Party?

Oh yeah, a TON if he doesn't learn when to keep his mouth shut.

Maybe he's still gun shy from that little oops he had.. shooting a lawyer will do that to ya, I hear. Can't say that I respect the man in any regards to the shooting sports, but be nice if he'd learn to just shut up.

Of course you don't....

YOU ALREADY LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS!

You've taken yourself out of the handgun bidness already.

Sycamore

Okay, I'll bite the [bleep] sandwich and ask the question honestly, as I don't know.

What are those extended magazines used for? Competition, the just-for-fun factor, what? In Canada we're stuck with a 10-round limit so we can't even fill a normal magazine, let alone 30+ rounds. If the answer is 'because we can', I'm fine with that. I'm just looking for information.

Don't have one, but they're used for the same thing that any other magazine is used for. To hold bullets. Is there really a magical 10 round limit that you'll never need to exceed if you are defending yourself from a home invasion, or if you need to jump in the car and pursue somebody who's just grabbed a little girl off of the street? I've never heard of that..

The point is not what it can be used for, but that .gov has no business messing with the issue in the first place.

Horse is out of the barn on the gov messing with this issue, Sam.

Am I the only one that saw the video of Cheney and his remarks? Lots of estrogen being oozed here......

Hmm, let's see, some dirt bags are breaking into your home in the middle of the night, do you want to pull a 10 round magazine or a 30 round magazine out of your night stand?

It all comes back to our Constitution. You've heard the popular saying, "The Second Amendment Ain't About Duck Hunting"? That means that the 2nd Amendment is in place ultimately as a check against tyranny in our own government. Hunting is only obliquely protected in our Constitution, whereas military weapons are directly protected and extended magazines are the most effective ones for this type of use. They are what the government fears most so they should be actively protected. The government fearing its people is a good thing. God forbid we ever have to actually use the 2nd Amendment for what it was designed to recognize.

Since the leftists haven't been able to ban gun ownership outright, they have decided to chip away at gun rights a little piece at a time. Once they ban high capacity magazines, they will go after something else. They are relentless.

If changing the law made a difference, we could just pass a new law making it illegal to shoot politicians.

AZ Guys...

I was told that those HI Cap Mags were already banned in AZ...


Is this true?


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Girls, we have more pressing issues in this country than being distracted by a thought Cheney made about gun mag capacity.

Is this a moment we can look back on and see how some ate our own over nothing?

I'd say it's more of a moment for recognizing those who won't protect our rights, whether out of loyalty, dementia, or just plain idiocy.

Got a mirror?

lol

LMAO!

You didn't see the video either.

I did.. a close paraphrase is: "We've had restrictions on magazine sizes for semi-automatic weapons before, and maybe it's time to revisit that."

Can't be any clearer.. What's murky is why you support him on this so much.

Those who would demand complete ideological purity from any politician may never find it and if they do that politician won't be elected.

Dick Cheney is a good man who has served this Country well. He is every bit as entitled to his opinion on high capacity magazines as anyone here--maybe more so.

I dare say that most, if not all, Republican Presidential hopefuls hold that same opinion.