According to Wikipedia, in gas-operated systems in firearms, "a portion of high-pressure gas from the cartridge being fired is used to power a mechanism to dispose of the spent case and insert a new cartridge into the chamber." Illustration: screenshot from Mouse Gunner-produced video, YouTube
Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.
Sadly, the introduction of such legislation is virtue signaling at best and disingenuous at worst and will do little to nothing to solve that problem.
In our fair land, there are already more than 20,000 regulations, prohibitions and restrictions on the use and ownership of firearms. Prosecution of violations of these should more than likely ameliorate the situation. Why is this not happening? Perhaps our politicians should answer that before manufacturing new laws. Or at least repeal those that are not working.
It has been said that firearms being inanimate objects simply don’t shoot randomly. Who is pulling that trigger? When I was in school, we had our rifles or shotguns with us so we could stop and hunt on the way home. Shortly after those years, the courts ruled that mentally ill had rights and should be released from involuntary incarceration or institutionalization. Funny thing is that school and public shootings increased shortly afterwards.
If one wants to speak about safety, the FBI has estimated that firearms are used for defense many times, annually. “ According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost every major study on defensive gun use has found that Americans use their firearms defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times each year. There’s good reason to believe that most defensive gun uses are never reported to law enforcement, much less picked up by local or national media outlets.” https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/firearms/defensive-gun-uses-in-the-us/
On a personal level, my family are all immigrants. They all came to our country before the world wars. Of those that remained in Europe, perhaps ten percent of my family still lives. Restrictions on firearms was the first action that led to their deaths. I can never support loss of our Second Amendment. Interesting story: https://archive.org/details/rummel-r.-j.-death-by-government-1994
Thank you.
Alan,
Thank you for your perfectly stated comment.
I agree with Mr. Horoschak.
Hold the criminal responsible not the inanimate object.
Gina Roberts
Truth or Consequences, NM
Immigrants before 1917 from white European countries would more aptly be referred to as colonists.
I would ask what percentage of those self-defense episodes involved a machine gun/AR-15/AK-47 type firearm. This is a disgusting claim that merely by outlawing privately owned machine guns it will deprive the average citizen of his/her defense. I’m sorry, I CAN imagine a world where everyone had a machine gun – and it is NOT a world I would care to live in.
This is no longer a world where you can take your rifle or shotgun to school and shoot dinner on your way home. GET OVER IT!!
Thomas Sowell: “It is usually futile to try to talk fact and analysis to people who enjoy a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
First of all, machine guns are controlled and highly regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934. The guns they are referring to are semi automatic guns which have safely used for hundreds of years. Rifles, including semiautomatic firearms make up less than 4% of firearm related deaths. The majority of firearm related deaths (60%) are suicides. We need to focus n mental health not making incorrect statements about the causes of firearm related deaths.
Sadly, the introduction of such legislation is virtue signaling at best and disingenuous at worst and will do little to nothing to solve that problem.
In our fair land, there are already more than 20,000 regulations, prohibitions and restrictions on the use and ownership of firearms. Prosecution of violations of these should more than likely ameliorate the situation. Why is this not happening? Perhaps our politicians should answer that before manufacturing new laws. Or at least repeal those that are not working.
It has been said that firearms being inanimate objects simply don’t shoot randomly. Who is pulling that trigger? When I was in school, we had our rifles or shotguns with us so we could stop and hunt on the way home. Shortly after those years, the courts ruled that mentally ill had rights and should be released from involuntary incarceration or institutionalization. Funny thing is that school and public shootings increased shortly afterwards.
If one wants to speak about safety, the FBI has estimated that firearms are used for defense many times, annually. “ According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost every major study on defensive gun use has found that Americans use their firearms defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times each year. There’s good reason to believe that most defensive gun uses are never reported to law enforcement, much less picked up by local or national media outlets.” https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/firearms/defensive-gun-uses-in-the-us/
On a personal level, my family are all immigrants. They all came to our country before the world wars. Of those that remained in Europe, perhaps ten percent of my family still lives. Restrictions on firearms was the first action that led to their deaths. I can never support loss of our Second Amendment. Interesting story: https://archive.org/details/rummel-r.-j.-death-by-government-1994
Thank you.
Alan,
Thank you for your perfectly stated comment.
I agree with Mr. Horoschak.
Hold the criminal responsible not the inanimate object.
Gina Roberts
Truth or Consequences, NM
Immigrants before 1917 from white European countries would more aptly be referred to as colonists.
I would ask what percentage of those self-defense episodes involved a machine gun/AR-15/AK-47 type firearm. This is a disgusting claim that merely by outlawing privately owned machine guns it will deprive the average citizen of his/her defense. I’m sorry, I CAN imagine a world where everyone had a machine gun – and it is NOT a world I would care to live in.
This is no longer a world where you can take your rifle or shotgun to school and shoot dinner on your way home. GET OVER IT!!
Thomas Sowell: “It is usually futile to try to talk fact and analysis to people who enjoy a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
First of all, machine guns are controlled and highly regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934. The guns they are referring to are semi automatic guns which have safely used for hundreds of years. Rifles, including semiautomatic firearms make up less than 4% of firearm related deaths. The majority of firearm related deaths (60%) are suicides. We need to focus n mental health not making incorrect statements about the causes of firearm related deaths.