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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 01:29 PM Original message |
"An Implement Of Freedom---semiautomatic M1911 handgun the official Utah State Firearm" |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. "...the weapon of choice for many random mass killings"?!?!? |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Yep |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. One of the largest, most expensive, lowest capacity, and high recoil handguns |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. because we don't fetishize guns so much that we can describe them |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #29 |
38. That doesn't explain why the need to embelish, to the point of absurdity, |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 04:47 PM Response to Reply #29 |
39. We aren't talking about minor errors. |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. Jeez |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Since most 1911 are 7 or 8 + 1 magazine capacity, they are |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. An impediment to freedom, indeed. |
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TheMightyFavog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
22. The M1911 was the U.S. Military sidearm from 1911 to the early 80s |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. Whatever floats their fucking boat. |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
6. New slogan too? -- "Scared people need guns" /nt |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 04:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
41. That wouldn't make sense. I wouldn't say the scared people |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
7. The weapon of choice for Pike Bishop & the Wild Bunch |
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arcane1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
8. When has this type of gun "defended America"? |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. I think it was when we invaded Honduras in 1912... |
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arcane1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Ah yes, my great-grandmother told the tale.... |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. It has been, and was developed for, carried by |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. so what the heck does that have to do with Utah? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:14 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Read up on John Moses Browning, one of Utah's favorite sons |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #19 |
37. Now see there |
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Lurks Often (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. It has pretty much been in continuous service with either the |
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Gaedel (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 03:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
30. Not police |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 03:16 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Besides Officer Malloy on Adam-12, I've seen a few real police officers carrying them |
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Gaedel (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 03:21 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. For an auto pistol |
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Lurks Often (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 03:56 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Not entirely correct |
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virginia mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. When my grandfather carried one in World War II... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. World War II |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. standard military officer sidearm for 60+years, including WW2, Korea etc |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. There were attacks on US soil during World War II, other tthan the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
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TheMightyFavog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. And World War I... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I'm not sure how I made it almost 53 years without knowing about that one, but I did |
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TheMightyFavog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:48 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I only learned about it from watching History Detectives a few years back... |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:46 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. My apologies - I was thinking of the mainland only. NT |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:52 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. There were also Japanese attempts to bomb the western US, and shelling attacks from subs. |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 04:50 PM Response to Reply #27 |
40. IIRC, many of the balloons were launched from Japan itself, relying on the |
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Travelman (326 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 03:19 PM Response to Reply #21 |
32. And, if you want to get technical about it, |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 03:25 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Nazis actually did invade the US, if you count espionage |
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Travelman (326 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. True. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
14. No! Stop! If you make disapproving faces at that news article, SARAH PALIN WILL BE PRESIDENT! |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
17. I had to carry one once. But, it sure as hell wasn't to defend freedom. |
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