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Thank god the debt got blown up so that suppressors are tax free (lemmy.ml)

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The bill also drops the National Firearms Act fee on short barrelled guns. Fucking good! The shorter the barrel, the slower and less accurate the bullet/pellets. A sawed off shotgun is hilariously ineffective. So why are less dangerous guns highly restricted? The NFA was specifically written to fuck with the Italian Mafia.

Remember kids! Guns laws always have their roots in racism!

Know what really grinds my gears? Blacks, women and LGBT folks have been the largest gun purchasing demographic for the past several years. Wait...

Did y'all think you were just baggin' on white rednecks? Some of you suburban white kids didn't get the memo?

Know why California has the most strict, and idiotic and ineffective, guns laws? Because those buh-lacks were patrolling with open weapons to protect their neighborhoods from the pigs.

Notice how everyone protesting ICE is unarmed? Because ICE is only hitting unarmed populations.

WhErE mY 2a PeEps aT?!

Right fucking here, where ICE isn't.

Your head. Your ass. Remove the former from the later.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

While I don’t fully disagree with your points, it should be noted that the “where are the 2a people?” comments are all targeted at the conservatives who get in a huge fuss whenever a school shooting starts gun ban talks but who have been largely silent every single time their own party does absurd, objective, obviously tyrannical things. People were out in the street during covid, fully armed, complaining that they weren’t allowed to go to Denny’s anymore but sit back and continue support the second coming of the Nazi party.

There’s a lot more to it than whatever you’ve got going on and I would hope, especially given a couple of your first few good points, that you’d understand that.

Also the short barreled gun thing has to do with concealment, obviously. While I have no doubt that the reasons have good racist undertones, because the US is just that kinda place, you can’t seriously be saying that the lack of range of a sawed-off shotgun makes it fundamentally and universally less dangerous. A pistol is “less effective” than a sniper rifle but I can get plenty close to you with one before you even realize there’s about to be a big fuckin’ problem.

You talk a big game about other people having their heads up their asses but you may need to check the location of your own when you next get the chance.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Worth noting that less accurate ≠ less dangerous

I'll grant that less powerful does though

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

A sawed off shotgun is essentially a melee weapon.

A very deadly, quick, and effective melee weapon.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Any machinist can make one, and probably for a lot less.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I made one with a pvc, filled with layers of drywall repair mesh held together with pipe clamps. It's nice to being able to .22 plink at night. Not registering it even if there's no tax. Currently working on an even more naughty gun project. Didn't file taxes this year either.

I just don't care anymore now that they're sending citizens and non-citizens alike to federal concentration camps to await horrible fates. There's nothing to lose anymore.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine how silent that house must be

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

If a tree fell in the woods, and only this guy was around..

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thinking of hiking down to the creek right now. Love to pop a few off! Sometimes I do, but I don't want anyone alarmed. Have a camp in the boonies, would love to dial that sound down so as not to annoy the neighbors. And then there's my hearing, not getting any younger.

I have a shitload of guns. (many don't work ATM) Never bought a suppressor because the prices are insane on top of the $200 tax. It's a fucking CAN! Only reason they cost so much is all the legal hassle. Be buying come January assuming prices drop. LOL, we'll probably be able to get crappy suppressors on eBay.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

My neighbors called the cops because I was shooting the other week. Cops saw my blind and range and complimented it. I dumped a lot of rounds after they left.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No ebay, they're still regulated, just regulated for free now.

But now a cheap(-est you're going to find above .22lr) $400 can isn't suddenly $600, so it helps, and they may get cheaper.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

There are some lawsuits pending regarding the legality of regulating them without their tax stamps.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

dint trump ban, issued some fort of gun control in his first term, maga never made a peep about it.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Bump stocks after Vegas, and no, not 1 peep.

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Thats... just not true

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

it was mostly ignored by fox at the time too, before the MAGA-exodus from fox during bidens first campaign.

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[–] Fontasia 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I read this as "Government expects magical boom of item that specific target market already buys"

Honey, I finally bought that gun suppressor! We don't even own a gun, let alone a gun this fits on Yes, but it was ~~~~~~Tax Exempt~~~~~~

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago

If you go far enough left, you get your guns back.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank Glob that those tariffs won't affect gun and silencer prices. 🙃

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

I agree, thank "god" (or appropriate figurative substitute, it's all fake anyway) that bullshit tax is gone (effective jan 1 iirc).

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Taxing gun suppressors as a means of gun control was dumb. Eliminating the tax was dumb. People's fascination with mid-20th century military technology and their self-obsessive "I'm the PC in a video game" mentality is sicko shit. The whole American experiment in lobbyist-guided gun control legislation is such a fucking joke.

Just reading about it never fails to blackpill me.

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