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Odd how people will get things just because someone doesn’t want them to have it. Even if it’s utterly and completely ridiculous.
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May 8th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
When I was young and poor, I bought bolt actions because that was all I could afford. I loved my milsurp Mauser and my pump action Mossberg 500, but I wanted, nay, I NEEDED to buy a semi-auto. Why? They were more expensive, much more expensive. They fired smaller rounds. They required accessories, like magazines, which were also very expensive (this was in the middle of the ban, mind you), and they were hard to find. But they were banned, so I had to have one. Not just any one. One with the banned FEATURES. I didn’t want something that looked like it had a collapsible stock, I wanted an actual-factual collapsible stock. Not because I needed one, or wanted one, but because they were banned. I thought the bayonet lug on my Mauser was stupid, and even though I had a bayonet, I never mounted it on there, but you can bet your ass I wanted an AR that had one. Why? Because they were banned.
Then the ban ended, and these things came back onto the market, and I got a few, and I realized suddenly that I didn’t shoot them very much anymore. I started casting bullets and trying to squeeze as much accuracy out of my old Mauser as I could. I didn’t to chase the brass all over the range either.
Pro-gun people told me that Glocks were awesome and revolvers were stupid. They told me only an idiot would buy a 34oz gun that only held six shots when I could get a 30oz gun that held 17+1. So I bought a revolver. Now I own a bunch of them, because they aren’t tacticool, they’re practicool, and I don’t have to chase brass. I think I’d have been perfectly happy with a six shot .38, a bolt action .30-06, and a 12 gauge pump if I hadn’t been side tracked trying to buy dozens of guns that were forbidden.
May 8th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
God should never have told Adam and Eve not to eat that apple. Contrariness has been in our blood ever since.