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It most certainly is. It is the distinction between weapons that use full size cartridges (FAL/ M1/M14/AR10) and those that use intermediate cartridges (StG43-44/AR-15/AK47-74+), long before news media even knew what they were. In fact, "battle rifle" was created to distinguish between the older full size cartridge weapons and the newer intermediate cartridge weapons. But don't take my word for it, just listen to Eugene Stoner. He knew better than either of us.

I wouldn't be shocked if there's some rural churches that do that kind of thing...

Wasn't there a church in Lake Oswego, OR USA that raffled off an AR-15 not that long ago?

By definition, MBRs use full size cartridges (eg .30-06, .308) whereas assault rifles use intermediate cartridges. The difference between say, M1 Garand/M14/AR10 and the AR-15.

Since I keep getting told that guns are tools, I'd feel the same if a bunch of people treated a certain brand of cordless drill with holy reverence.

I mean, people DO do that...

The time of the Stoner platform was coming, one way or another. It's effectively open source at this point and home manufacturing has exploded.

... and people still think eleventytwo people were shooting at him. Special bullets that were really low power and disintegrated when hitting his head so they didn't go through him and hit Jackie in the face.

Here's a yearly reminder that Oliver Stone is a Soviet propagandist that lionized a nutcase who used courts to attack and ruin a gay man.

Hey all! We're on some other useless for-profit, corporate social media too!

I don't think it's going to matter what party supports RCV. Once it's the law of your area, candidates will be running in an RCV election whether they supported it or not.

The federal government doesn't control elections. You handle that at the state (or county/parish/whatever) level. At least here in Oregon, people can bring measures to the ballot by petition rather than waiting for the legislature to do anything about it, and given two party monopoly, they aren't going to do anything about it for you.

In order to get a new Amendment off the ground, you need a 2/3rds vote in the House. 290 votes.

... Or an Article V convention forced by states. I'd wager money it's going to happen in the next 25 years.

The 2nd amendment applies to all bearable weapons, even those that did not exist at the time of writing (Caetano).

That seems to conflict with Miller though? A short barrel shotgun apparently wasn't standard military issue so it wasn't legal for possession?

3. The Second Amendment protects only the ownership of military-type weapons appropriate for use in an organized militia.

4. The "double barrel 12-gauge Stevens shotgun having a barrel less than 18 inches in length, bearing identification number 76230," was never used in any militia organization.

Totally in agreement here. You know, it reminds me of another aspect of the Florida recounting. Let me dig ...

Here we go!

The Brooks Brothers Riot

I think the root of this was the SCOTUS stepping into the 00 election to stop the Florida recounting. I definitely heard a lot of stolen election rhetoric from liberals and leftists during shrubs first term - and there's some gravity to the claim given the events. It's not the same in Trump's case though, but the details aren't what matters in a game with lowest common denominator voters - only rhetoric matters. Rhetoric is what got 1/6 to happen, and it's what's where the average Republican to support Trump no matter what.

They don't think it will be a lawless utopia, do they? They want strict application of laws on people, just not corporations. Unless those corporations directly harm them, then it's bad corporation.

I see it as akin to how Nazis pushed the idea that the Weimar government was soft on crime (liberals just didn't understand how to apply "justice"), so they opened Dachau to show their fellow Germans how "criminals" should be dealt with. It served as a primer on how they would operate the kz network in Poland and elsewhere.

Plot twist: that poster isn't American.

yt-dlp has been working pretty well for me thus far.

whoosh

Ol musk going death con

I had no concept of black Friday until the late 90s when I was told about it and looked at my sister like she was crazy for fighting over deals on socks and underwear. It wasn't until a few years later when a girlfriend wanted to get her sibling a laptop and we stood in line at 3am at circuit shitty that I realized it really was all fucking stupid and not worth it.

No they haven't. He'll either be reelected to the house or be elected governor.

Yeah it doesn't get everything, but it gets the vast majority of stuff and I'm ok with that. I've been working hard at pulling down the videos I want from YouTube and uploading them to my peertube instance so I don't need to use YouTube directly anymore most of the time.