Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Forbes Breaking News"
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Before I even got to the Federal firearms violations, I counted at least 13 types of felonies, including treason, FARA violations, money-laundering, Foreign Corruption Practices of 1977 ACT violations, soliciting bribes from hostile nations, threatening and coercing foreign hostile actors to pay his family, human-trafficking, schedule II narcotics possession and distribution (filmed himself engaged in these activities several times even), yet nothing.
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@V600photo Canada only has 5.7 million students enrolled in elementary and secondary schools though, out of 39.7 million people total (population of California roughly). The US has almost that many kids enrolled in Kindergarten alone.
In 2021, there were 58.6 million students enrolled in K-12 schools in the US, including public (49.7m), charter (3.4m), and private (5.5m). In addition, there were 3.1 million registered home-schooled children in the 2021-2022 school year.
The US also has demographic groups who are targeted by government policy to be kept uneducated or under-educated more than the standard under-education of everyone in public and charter (camouflaged public) schools.
Compulsory schooling is pretty dumbing no matter what country it happens in (compared to actual student potential), so the argument is really more about who sucks the least, not how great any particular country is with true education for children.
I argue that “Curriculum experts” don’t exist. There are people who have various types of products in the curriculum marketplace, and governments buy them wholesale after they are developed by boards of so-called experts, but that term is very misleading.
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@Daves_Man_Cave I can see how we're coming to different conclusions.
AR stands for "ArmaLite", not "ArmaLite Rifle". Evidence is the ArmaLite AR-9 and AR-17 Shotguns developed in the 1950s. People make this mistake a lot without being familiar with ArmaLite history.
Barrel lengths: In the 1930s, Rifles typically had barrels 24"-30" in length. Carbines were 16"-24". Metallic cartridge technology and pressure containment vessels had lower working pressures in the 1800s, which incrementally increased into the 1930s.
In 1934, if you read the NFA Hearings, you'll see that pistols were classified by barrel lengths of 12" or less.
There were also short-barreled lever guns that didn't fit well into the common classifications at the time, as well as pistols with holsters that doubled as stocks.
An overlooked firearms classification that has evolved more is the Personal Defense Weapon (PDW).
PDWs don't always fit into Rifle, Carbine, or Pistol definitions because of barrel length and intent to use with either 1 or 2 hands. One of the earliest PDWs of the 20th Century was the M1 Carbine, but it had an 18" barrel and was literally called a Carbine, though it didn't fire a full-sized rifle cartridge.
AR-15, Cz Scorpion, Hk, Striborg, etc. Pistols actually fall more into the category of PDWs.
Arbitrary definitions that don't take technological progress into account repeatedly miss the mark. I'll give another example:
The Army's new NGSW "rifle" has a 13" barrel, but generates velocities similar to a 24" .270 Winchester firing the same projectile weight.
Is it a carbine or a rifle?
How would a reasonable person, a firearms historian and technical analyst, and the ATF classify the following?
AR-15 w/7.5" barrel
AR-15 w/10.5" barrel
AR-15 w/12.5" barrel
AR-15 w/14.5" barrel
Hk SP5
FN 5.7 PS90 w/10" barrel
Steyr AUG w/16" barrel
Mauser 7.65mm with holster/stock
The NFA hearings discussed concealabilty of firearms used by gangsters and Dillinger, with Colt Automatics and Thompson SMGs as their main firearms to be taxed.
The pistol tax provision was eliminated, making the concealability metric a moot point.
Pistols aren't subject to the NFA. Since they defined pistols as having barrels of 12" or less, what are firearms with 12-18" barrels?
Next, why did they arbitrarily change the barrel length for rifles from 18" to 16" in the 1960s, but left shotguns at 18"?
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