Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The NRA Gets Hacked By Ransomware Group "Grief"" video.

The average person can go online and buy a screwdriver, orbital sander, drill press, CNC router, etc. We don't care if you work in machinery or not. What does being a hunter or in the military even mean? That's hardly quantifiable. You can't be judge, jury and executioner. That's illegal. By your logic you can just grab your kitchen knife, slide it down the plants pocket and go around being judge, jury and executioner. You'll just have to run faster. You're attributing some kind of mystical power to the firearm as if you can't do the exact same with other weapons or bare handed. You can go be judge, jury and executioner with your fists and feet. Either way, you'll be stopped eventually and pay for the crimes you committed. So this concern is unrelated to firearms.
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@Van-Leo "while not being able to acquire an army tank" - But you can get those. "but my comparison was more to the higher grade arms" - I can't crack open your head and know what you mean by this. Explain to me what these "grades" are. "there’s very little use to unload a full AR magazine into someone who broke in, it’s barely self defense at that point." - What are your qualifications to determine this? You can get semi-auto shotguns in the UK. You think dumping three rounds of buckshot isn't going to turn someone into hamburger? Unloading half a magazine from a Glock isn't going to mess someone up? How is the AR different? "the general public shouldn’t be the target audience" - Why? Then why have them around? "gun show markets that are barely doing any background checks" - This is a narrative you were sold. Vendors at gun shows are legally an extension of the FFL store, and by FEDERAL LAW they need to conduct background checks on every sale or they lose their federal license. People often used gun shows to conduct private sales, aka used gun sales. There wasn't internet back in the day. If you're against private sales, just say it. Don't go and say "gun show" because that's not what you're describing. "if you wanted to drive an 18 wheeler you’d need 200 hours of training experience" - Yeah. And if you had a loaded cannon pointing at everyone in public while a throttle pedal governed how close the lit match was to the fuse, you should probably have more than 200 hours of training. "I don’t understand why the same can’t be applied to guns, public and private and certified markets depending on job and practiced skill level." - Driving a vehicle is like shooting a gun. You don't need a license to own a vehicle. If you're in public with the gun out and blasting rounds at chest level, you should probably have a license to make sure you don't hit anyone. If it's inside your holster and you get penalized if you whip it out? Not my problem. It's like you had an unregistered car in your backyard and one day you decided to fuel it up and drive without a license. It wasn't our problem until you decided to make it a problem.
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@Van-Leo "how much of a gun does the average American need just to protect their home" - What do you think is "too much"? You want an arbitrary line, but for whatever reason it always errs on the side of taking away guns. "A pistol should be enough for the general public" - There's like 11,000 homicides committed with handguns every year in the US. Only 300-400 rifle homicides. Rifles of all types. "getting an ar 15 is unnecessary and could put any inexperienced users at risk as well" - Actually, handguns put inexperienced people at greater risk. Smaller, less points of contact. "they have more laws to protect the public than a tool designed for taking lives" - Not really. You can be a total jerk with a car for your entire life and only get slaps on the wrist. You mess up once with a gun and you're looking at trouble.
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@Van-Leo No, it's not about sample size considering that back when the number of firearms in the US was around 300 million - probably a decade ago at this point - the weapons were estimated to be one third rifles, one third handguns and one third shotguns. Rifles are also easier to acquire than handguns as many states have extra restrictions on handguns, they require the buyer to be aged 21 instead of 18, and they cannot be bought across states. Handguns are simply easier to conceal, which makes them more suitable for crime. In the UK they have a near-total ban on handguns with very few exceptions, but rifles are legal. Across the world handguns are seen as a greater threat than rifles and regulated accordingly. Licensing is just a backdoor way to take guns away. There's millions of gun owners without licenses. If you introduce a licensing standard, you have millions of illegal gun owners until they acquire the license. What happens when an anti-gun government is elected and makes the licensing scheme too hard or too expensive to pass? Or delays renewals so that owners technically allow their license to lapse?
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Did you live under a rock during 2020-2021?
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The Mulford Act predated the Cincinnati Revolt by about 10 years. The NRA in 1967 was not the NRA you think of these days. This isn't an endorsement of the NRA, just stating that the organization was changed from the inside. Fun fact, the NRA then changed their internal rules so that a new revolt couldn't happen. Michael Moore actually planned to try and use activists to change the NRA from the inside but he realized he couldn't be done due to the convoluted way that people are nominated for the board.
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Even the parliamentary office for science and technology in the UK looked into mental health evaluations for gun licenses and they concluded it was useless. - Many mental health issues don't correlate with crime. - If the person being evaluated does not have a criminal record that offers evidence for their patterns of behavior, the entire evaluation is based on the interviewee being honest and not hiding anything. - After passing tests, people would go online and publish their experiences to help others pass the test. - The UK doesn't have enough psychiatrists and money to pay for all these interviews. If the UK said this was not affordable with like 4 million gun owners, imagine the US. Some guy from the Netherlands posted on a bunch of subreddits related to guns how awful his experience was in the interview portion of getting a license. It's not about safety. It's not about mental health. It was just humiliation. Also you give the government an easy avenue to ban guns without legislation. Just make everyone fail the test.
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Not really. This happened years ago but even one of the former directors for a gun control organization has admitted that their proposals wouldn't have stopped shootings. Most gun regulations are absolute nonsense that exist just to screw with people, and do zero to solve the problem. Look up the insanity of NFA laws and tell me that prevents crime.
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Mialisus lolno. Norinco is banned from import after they got caught supplying weapons to gangs, so they're rare. Most AKs in the civilian market are Serbian/Yugoslavian, Russian before the sanctions, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, etc. Egyptian and East German are pretty sought after too.
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Mialisus Zastavas have 1.5mm thick receivers instead of 1mm and a trunnion bulge like seen on RPKs. It was meant to make the gun more rigid so it could fire rifle grenades, if I remember correctly. Maybe enough time has passed that other countries can sell Norincos to the US, because a Type 56 was 1000-1100 in 2011 and that was expensive for an AK back then. That was like converted Saiga money. And yes, there were Russian sanctions in 2014 because of the Ukraine situation, which affected Saigas (Izhmash). In 2017 the treasury department added the Veprs (Molot) to the ban list.
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But they do. People post pictures and videos of their guns with tape over the serial number, and for over a decade I've seen these "journalist tries to get list of concealed carry permits so he can publish them ZOMG111!1!1!!!!!" stories. The NRA sticker on the truck, 5.11 pants, Oakley sunglasses and tshirt design somewhat related to guns or the military is just lack of self-awareness.
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@belstar1128 Some countries have loosened up restrictions. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, etc you can get sports shooting licenses that allow you to shoot stuff that was previously banned in the past in IPSC/3-gun. There's youtube channels of gun owners in Sweden, Finland, France, etc and you can get cool stuff there too, the problem is that everything's expensive.
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@Venus03 "PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION AND GUN CONTROL" - POST Technical Report 87, November 1996.
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@pheonyxior_5082 Adapted to what? Most of the proposed gun laws are about shafting the legal owners, not actual murderers. The NRA isn't in the way. They actually supported a lot of gun control laws.
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