Newly minted Texas Senator Ted Cruz has barely been in office for a weekend, and has already displayed his characteristic capacity for rhetorical sharpness combined with constitutionalism. Appearing on Fox News Sunday today, Senator Cruz was asked about gun control proposals being offered in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, and whether he could support any of them. Cruz’s reply, while empathetic to the victims, was quite firm.
“The reason we’re discussing this is because of the tragedy in Newtown. And every parent – my wife and I, we’ve got two little girls, age 4 and age 2 – every parent was horrified by what happened there. To see twenty children, six adults senselessly murdered, it takes your breath away,” Cruz began, before pivoting to the political question.
“But within minutes,” Cruz continued, “we saw politicians run out and try to exploit this tragedy, try to push their political agenda of gun control. I do not support their gun control agenda for two reasons: Number one, it’s unconstitutional.”
When the host pressed Cruz on whether there was anything he could support, Cruz said he supported using measures to update the Federal database of who was ineligible to own a firearm. However, he took special aim at a proposal by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to create a national registry of who owns guns, saying the Federal government had no business keeping a list of who chooses to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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Cruz’s constitutional critique is a fairly common talking point among Republican legislators. However, coming from Cruz, it may carry additional weight, as the former Texas Solicitor General has won multiple cases arguing before the Supreme Court itself, and clerked for former Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
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TIMEBOMB
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:10pmSenator Cruz I do so thoroughly enjoy hearing you speak about gun control issues as if you have a say in the matter. I know you’re new to this so I’ll explain,I am your ruler and I’ll be in control for the duration and the senate and the house are simply window dressing. I will let you know what is law and what isn’t,capice? I have rendered congress irrelevant with my various EO’s and regulations. My loyal subjects just can’t get enough of me and kept me in power so thanks for your input it’s so quaint.
Praise be to me BHO. BTW By the time your magnificent ruler is done eviscerating the constitution you won’t be able to be a cap gun.
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oldguy49
Jan. 6, 2013 at 6:20pmi just purchased 2 slingshots to go in my go bag……….1 was the barret cobra, and surprise surprise it is illegal in countries like germany and australia…….a friggin slingshot…..don’t touch the 2nd amendment……..15,000,000 hunting license issued in us in 2011………..thats a lot of militia
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Libertarian
Jan. 6, 2013 at 6:30pmI do not agree with “mental illness” as a means to regulate the ownership of guns. First off, define “mental illness” because recently the definition of ADD, ADHD and autism has been dramatically redefined. It is the reasoning for these “1 and every 100 people have autism” commercials.
Using mental illness as a guise to regulate guns is still regulating our 2nd amendment right.
I believe the prohibition of guns will come through hard economic times with a “food for guns” buyback program and through the “mental illness” status and/or approach.
Good luck to you all in the coming hard times.
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BEAURYKER
Jan. 6, 2013 at 6:35pmWanna bet?
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rangerskippy
Jan. 6, 2013 at 7:05pmTake notice that every MSM outlet had a big story last night about a shooting and hostage situation in Colorado.
This morning, every one (including Fox) had dropped it. Why did they drop it?
When they discovered the shooter was a Hispanic gang member with a back ground of drug dealing, the dropped it like a hot rock./
It does not fit their agenda.
the media no longer does journalism. It looks for stories that fit their agenda, and only show those stories,
the Sandy Hook shooting happened weeks ago. What new info did journalists dig up since the shooting,.
What video games did he play?
What medications was he on?
It was reported that he was found with two pistols, and had an AR in his back seat. Coroner claimed all vittimes were shot with a rifle. Which is it
What relationship did he have with his dad?
Media in the first two days declared he was “Goth” no more on that one?
Journalism is dead, and Fox news is a facade to make you think there is a conservative news source. they are a joke also.
Not one media source (blaze included) has mentioned Kevin Jennings so much as once. Jennings was Obama’s pick for SAFE SCHOOL CZAR!!!! Did he do anything to keep our schools safe? his only claim to fame was teaching homosexuality to school age children.
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NOT A CRAZY
Jan. 6, 2013 at 8:09pmLibertarian…I understand what you are saying and I agree with it up to a point. Where the law needs to change is not in relationship to guns but in relationship to what happens to someone who is truely off of their rocker. The last three multiple murderers were clearly mentally deranged with provable track records. These people should have been locked up and they would have been locked 40 years ago before the bleeding heart liberals insisted that they should all be turned loose. The other thing that needs to change is Hollywood. Beck nailed it the other day when he was talking about the fact that these mass murders didn’t really start at the level they are now until the late 70′s and the only difference is violent movies and other media. Screw Hollywood. I am not willing to sacrafice my rights because some idiots want to make money off of a movie.
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NOT A CRAZY
Jan. 6, 2013 at 8:18pmKeep it up Ranger. We all have to think outside of the box and by box I mean the lie-filled box of your choice that spews the same crap no matter what name is on it. Bengahzi is the only example we need. Lie upon lie upon lie.
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dmerwin
Jan. 6, 2013 at 8:37pmIt is very clear that the founders envisioned armed insurrection of an oppressive government as the reason for the second amendment. “Every generation needs a new revolution.” Thomas Jefferson. During the revolution many civilians owned superior firearms to the issued musket. General Daniel Morgan led such a group. The founders could not conceive hunting to be the reason for owning arms, there were no hunting laws until late in the 19th century. Clearly the 2nd was intended as a foil to an oppressive government. Any cursory study would clearly demonstrate that. We need to clearly make THAT argument. Do we need better background checks? Yes, but privacy clauses protect the whack jobs who will kill us. Tim McVeigh did not use a firearm. Mohammed Atta did not use a firearm. 500 people were murdered in Chicago in 2012, how many of the murderers used legal registered firearms.
Report: 1.8M dead registered to vote. This from Politico. If we have about 2 million dead people still registered to vote how can we know that the form for purchasing a firearm is filled out accurately? If we know our government helped buy guns for known felons in the Mexican drug cartels, why shouldn’t we be at least as well armed? I am sick of the BS from the liberals.
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MLeo
Jan. 6, 2013 at 8:45pm@rangerskippy
Great post
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SendTheMeteors
Jan. 6, 2013 at 10:05pmYes, every time a mass murderer with a semi-automatic with a 100 round magazine kills lots of people, or students or children, some people suddenly jump up and try to politicize those brutal, bloody, brain spattered deaths and say something should be done to prevent those acts in the future. And if there were a week to go by when a mass murder didn’t take place, those freaks would STILL try to politicize mass murder in order to promote their view of absolute despotism in the US for “Utopian” purposes.
Ever notice how when hundreds or thousands of people get sick or die from e.coli in beef or vegetables that the weirdos come out and try to “politicize” that? E. coli doesn’t kill people, people who eat contaminated vegetables or meat are killing people. Are you telling me that more regulation is going to prevent people from being killed from a naturally occurring pathogen? And that business owners who sell those pathogenic products are somehow responsible for a bacteria that God created?
Look. You’re more likely to get killed by a car than by a gun. So what are we supposed to do, make every owner of a car register that car with the Federal Government? Is that what the libs want? Clearly that’s a violation of my rights under the Constitution. If the government wants to take my car, they’ll have to pry my cold, dead hands off of the steering wheel. And undo my seat belt.
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valiant1776
Jan. 7, 2013 at 12:53am@SendTheMeteorsToEveryLiberalHome You’re one f’ing idiot. No mass murderer has ever used a 100 round magazine. The only morons who only hours after the incident made the CT tragedy political were leftist MSM hosts. Madcow, on the same night of the tragedy, talked about gun control, as did every other leftist MSM fart on TV.
You make no f’ing freaking sense. Your backwards rhetoric is even more pathetic than your actual arguments. Tell me, oh pretty please, why in the world did the ACLU fight to give these same maniacs undeserved rights to roam the streets freely and undisturbed?
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WATER-THE-TREE
Jan. 7, 2013 at 6:03amAll I can say is that the conspiracy theories are proving more true every day. Obama is the worst President this country could have and they want him to have a third term. He is though the best tool the Satan worshipping elitists could possibly have. The people of the USA need to wake up!
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000degrees
Jan. 7, 2013 at 7:36amIgnore the trolls…….they are pushing your buttons….
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rangerskippy
Jan. 7, 2013 at 8:24amSendtheMeteors
Notice that you like to harp and harp on “mass murders”. Also notice that there are less mass murders now than ten years ago. Notice that they make up a minute fraction of the nation’s murders.
Notice also that blacks make up 12% of the population, but do half of the nation’s murders, and not so much as a peep from you or libs on the matter.
If we drop black murder rates to the same as whites, then the national murder per capita rate will drop by almost 40%, and save a whole lot of black lives.
Notice also that for every murder with a rifle (every type, .22 single shot squirrel rifles included), there are 18 murders with a handgun, but it is the rifle that liberal politicians are clamoring about.
Notice also that more people in America were killed wtih knives last year than with a gun
Keep it real
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rangerskippy
Jan. 7, 2013 at 8:45amoops, had a typing mess up on that last message
The last portion should read
Last year there were more murders with a knife than with a rifle
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Trigus
Jan. 7, 2013 at 11:36am@sendthemixnutz: did you take your medication today. Really. Please: enlighten us on mass murders, over the last 40 years, where a semi-auto weapon w/ 100 round magazine was used to commit the crime. In fact, since you have so many facts – please break it down by the: mentally ill, liberal leftist (loughner), conservatives, right wingers, tea party.
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Trigus
Jan. 7, 2013 at 11:38am@sendthemixnutz: I forgot two categories – religious extremist, gang or drugs.
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SendTheMeteors
Jan. 7, 2013 at 5:28pmvaliant1776 says, “You’re one f’ing idiot. No mass murderer has ever used a 100 round magazine.”
Valiant, the Aurora shooter had exactly that, “Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said a 100-round drum magazine was recovered at the shooting scene.” http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/20/12865072-colorado-shooter-used-shotgun-assault-style-rifle-with-100-round-drum-magazine?lite
Shouldn’t you apologize for calling me a bad name? Didn’t your mamma teach you better manners?
TRIG says Jared Loughner was a liberal. So Trig, did you reach that conclusion from the fact that he tried to assassinate a liberal Congresswomen? What, she wasn’t liberal enough for him?
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Walkabout
Jan. 7, 2013 at 5:53pmSince when do conservatives have skull altars in their backyard?
Jared Loughner had a skull altar in his backyard & it was taken down pretty fast, because the left does not want to rightly get blamed for creating him.
It is very hard to find that picture on the internet. If the left could somehow tie skull altars to Christianity, they would & then would blame Christians. But no one is buying it. So the leftists hide the skulls & blame the Tea Party.
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Walkabout
Jan. 7, 2013 at 6:01pmRecords show that Loughner was registered as an Independent and voted in 2006 and 2008, but not in 2010.[25][26] A YouTube channel under an account called “Classitup10″ was linked to Loughner. (There have been numerous copies of ‘impostor accounts’ such as ‘JaredLoughner and Classitup1O.)[27][28]
Loughner’s high school friend Zach Osler said, “He did not watch TV; he disliked the news; he didn’t listen to political radio; he didn’t take sides; he wasn’t on the Left; he wasn’t on the Right.”[16] But a former classmate, Caitie Parker, who attended high school and college with Loughner, described his political views as “left wing, quite liberal,”[29] “radical. -wikipedia
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Registered independent but leftists try to label him as right wing or Tea Party.
Caitie Parker says he was left wing. Well that fits with an anti-Christian skull altar.
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NOT A CRAZY
Jan. 8, 2013 at 2:51amSendTheMeteors…How many people were shot in Aurora with a .223? Do you know? Did you know that the 100 round magazine that you referred too was jammed and that the murderer didn’t use that firearm due to the fact that it jammed? So how many people were killed with his shotgun, pistol or improvised explosives? Oh yeah that is right he had all of that stuff but that doesn’t fit into the liberal agenda does it jackass?
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piper60
Jan. 20, 2013 at 1:06pmOne should not despair of the Republic or of the constitution. Both are tough when push comes to shove- there’s a cast iron backbone lurking behind all that v18th century language ready to protect American freedom from all enemies, fro reign or domestic. Touch it who dares!
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sawhite
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:03pmThe individuals who have perpetrated these mass murders have all broken many local and federal laws. The only objective of such laws is the subjugation of the citizenry to the government, period!
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NOT A CRAZY
Jan. 6, 2013 at 8:22pmSubjugation = Death.
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judyaz
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:03pmDoes anyone keep track of where heavier armaments went that we sold in the Middle East? Who checks their mental health or whether they are terrorist or sworn enemies of the U.S.? What will American citizens do when infiltrated Hezbollah with the cartels are given orders to attack from within? Does anything think they will sign a national registry?
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grimmster
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:55pmGreat point Judy!
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:59pmExactly.
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Ghostmaker
Jan. 6, 2013 at 6:20pmI guess we will find out when the first passenger plane is taken out with American ground to air missiles.
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Conservative2
Jan. 6, 2013 at 10:12pmThe points of the Progressive agenda on 2nd amendment is pure Bullchit.
Where does the 2nd amendment have ANY clauses of exceptions for who or what kind of weapon(s) can be owned?
I’m sorry but the 2nd amendment doesn’t make any exceptions for the mentally Ill people! This how we let the progressives into the door for changes and this has to stop!
These Rights shall NOT be Infringed! It doesn’t lay out who or what kind of Arms!
The Way I see it, Yes we really do need to do some thing about our Mentally Ill people out there! But that’s a separate subject.
The 2nd Amendment specifically defines our rights, no infringements allowed! Your either 100% behind the 2nd Amendment or you’re par of the problem!
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donkeykong
Jan. 7, 2013 at 12:40amJudyaz-
Exactly. Like, just how many ‘heavy weapons’
were being brokered thru our Libyan CIA ‘safehouse’
where 4 Americans were killed. The speed at which
this was swept under the rug is astonishing….and
I for one still believe it is because there are impeachable
offenses at hand…..
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FlagWavingPatriot
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:02pmI don’t know much about this guy, but from what I’ve seen, I like him.
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dublinthewagons
Jan. 7, 2013 at 7:26amHe was heavily vetted here in Texas. He went against republican & democrat opponents. Both parties threw everything they had at him, but the voters didn’t listen to the establishment.
Cruz is a strict constitutionalist. He know it inside & out. He is no fool and we didn’t think he would waver under pressure. He is not a party man.
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tothepoint
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:59pmRemember when Biden lied while campaigning, telling people that Obama was not going to go for gun control?
Liars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XcyLeOm6yGc
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happygranny
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:05pmGod Bless you Senator Cruz! Keep this up and I will be supporting you from now on – even though I left the Republican party and now consider myself independent. We need more people like you in our government.
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Fubared
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:06pmDoesn’t the D after their name just reflect being professional liars? Same with many R’s, sure, but even the D part is a lie as most are socialists and democrats are a nearly extinct breed. Biden must have been into his cups that day, or all days.
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banjarmon
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:55pmIs NOT the Constitution the Supreme Law of the land??
Dose the Constitution supersede All state laws??
If It dose, Is NOT every gun law written, that INFRINGES ON OUR RIGHTS TO OWN AND BEAR ARMS after the Constitution was written, UNCONSTITUTIONAL??
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Look4DBigPicture
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:21pmNot exactly. The Congress can write legislation to amend the Constitution … but it’s not gonna happen. There aren’t enough members to back up this piece of legislation, and Feinstein knows it. The Dems are just grandstanding.
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banjarmon
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:32pmTo amend the Constitution it takes this
Article V, Note1, – Amendment , Note2, – , Note3, -
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
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RICKAUSTIN
Jan. 6, 2013 at 7:04pmLAW OF THE LAND
The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of
law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and
any statute, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for a law, which violates the
Constitution to be valid. This is succinctly stated as follows:
“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.” Marbury vs. Madison, 5
US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)
“When rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or
legislation which would abrogate them.” Miranda vs. Arizona, 384 US 436 p. 491.
“An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no
protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never
been passed.” Norton vs. Shelby County 118 US 425 p. 442
“The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is
in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality
dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding
it.
“No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.” 16
Am Jur 2nd, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256
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NOT A CRAZY
Jan. 6, 2013 at 8:26pmWe are all going to have to think the way our Founding Fathers thought.
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subic
Jan. 7, 2013 at 1:27am“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” ~ Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution & the Usurper in the WH fits all of the above.
http://clashdaily.com/2013/01/obamas-gun-control-presidential-threat-is-impeachable-offense/
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emty44
Jan. 7, 2013 at 2:25amThe constitution is not the “supreme” law of the land, it is a short list of laws governing what is the responsibility of the general government, and a a list of things that this general government cannot do. Then along comes the 10 amendment and defines who or what really has the power in this country.
Gun control, free speech, free press, free religon, etc, etc, are not in the general governments authority to regulate at all. Now any state is free to regulate whatever it wishes unless it violates that states constitution.
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jettson
Jan. 7, 2013 at 8:58amCongress can write anything they want. There are some that will not let them take there guns away. No matter what obama thinks he can do to stop the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. People will not give up the right. Watch what happends when they feel they have the right to use them. Take the right away…..I don’t think so. This just tells the people to find good hiding places.
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nzkiwi
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:48pmThe visible acts surrounding the obvious attempts to strengthen the gun control laws beyond constitutional limits are bad enough, but what is truly alarming is what is happening on the periphery.
The ATF has recently purchased another 200,000 rounds of ammunition. This brings their total holding to about 1.6 Billion rounds. Billion.
How long would a machine gun with a cyclic rate of 5 rounds per second take to use all that ammunition up if it began firing now and continued until this supply was exhausted?
Well, if my mathematics is correct, a little over six hundred years. It would stop in the year 2622.
Maths is not my strength, so can Monk or someone check that. I have re-calculated several times but I might be wrong.
Why am I bringing this up?
Well, it seems that at the same time as these gun restrictions are being promulgated, plans are being laid to use the DHS, ATF, and other agencies to confiscate the weapons of law-abiding Americans, and that way lies tyranny. “Preppers” are the first in line and then everybody else, and the policy is “shoot to kill”.
http://www.infowars.com/dhs-buys-200000-more-rounds-of-ammunition/
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Dr Vel
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:06pmTry a number closer to 10 years not 600.
5 rps = 300 rpm = 18,000 rph = 432,000 rpd = 157,788,000 rpy / 1.6 E9 r = 10.14 years.
r = rounds, p = per, s = seconds, m = minutes, h = hours, d = days, y = years, given a year = 365.25 days. Oh yeah, / = divided by.
Better question is what kind of chamber and barrel could take the abuse.
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CafeConservative
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:14pmI got the same answer as Vel.
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nzkiwi
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:30pmI made a silly mistake in the calculation. Sigh…
Just over 10 years is correct. And my error has detracted from my main point, which is; why have these agencies been quietly stockpiling such enourmous amounts of ammunition? What are they expecting?
Oh, dear… I hate it when that happens…
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The-Monk
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:49pmHi NZkiwi,
Looks like the others beat me to it. That’s still a lot of ammo. : (
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grimmster
Jan. 6, 2013 at 6:05pmKiwi, you ask why they are stock piling ammo? There is an audio you folks might want to hear on blackquillandink.com.It is basically a N.C. cop telling the host how the cops are preparing for when martial law is put in place,and he thinks it will be within the next 3 months.My father, was told the same thing, that they were training for the same thing,and this is here in Austin Tx.Be prepared folks,and be prepared to fight your neighbor,this is what obama has wanted ever since he was “elected” the first time.My question is, are some of these people willing to die for that pos?……
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nzkiwi
Jan. 6, 2013 at 6:10pmLet me make my point another way…
The DHS is only one agencies that is buying large amounts of ammunition. Huge amounts.
They are also buying enourmous quantities of MREs (Meals ready to eat) and stockpiling them in special bunkers.
When they have been questioned about these enourmous purchases, the DHS has cited “unusual and compelling urgency”. What? What unusual and compelling urgency? And if this urgency is so unusual and compelling, why has nothing been said about it in the media?
Why are “preppers”, who also stockpile food and ammunition, being specifically targetted? Well. it is felt, apparently, that they will be “the worst part” on any potential unrest.
What “potential unrest” is the administration expecting? And why?
I have posted this link once before, but I find the implications, frightening.
http://www.infowars.com/obama-would-call-on-military-to-disarm-americans-during-national-emergency/
Hide your weapons is my advice…
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nzkiwi
Jan. 6, 2013 at 6:50pmThanks anyway, Monk. It’s a pity I can’t check such things with you on the side before I post. Well, as we know, maths is not my strength…
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The-Monk
Jan. 6, 2013 at 7:05pmHi NZkiwi,
That can be arranged if you’d like. : )
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nzkiwi
Jan. 6, 2013 at 9:14pmHere is the interview to which Grimmster was referring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAVGkU7_OQ4&feature=player_embedded#!
North Carolina policeman Lt. McCoy makes some alarming statements.
Here is a subsequent interview with Lt McCoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_87892&feature=iv&src_vid=MAVGkU7_OQ4&v=A3-JqP11wvA
While some of his statements match those that I have read on other sites, it’s a little difficult to decide how much credibility to attach to this. I can’t find a reference to Lt McCoy in North Carolina anywhere, and while the USA has been divided up into ten regions with a governor heading each one (Council of Governors), I can’t connect that to any of this.
Possibly someone else can. Anyway there it is…
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sinner-saint
Jan. 7, 2013 at 1:55amHow does Obama control guns? By controlling the ammo manufacturers. The ammo manufacturers are busy fulfilling the government contracts. They aren’t producing much if any ammo for civilian use. notice there isn’t much ammo on the shelves now and how the price of ammo has jumped up? Obama is buying up all the ammo so civilians won’t have any. That’s the bottom line and that’s also what most people aren’t seeing or paying any attention to. Guns don’t work too good w/o any ammo.
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MoseyAlong
Jan. 7, 2013 at 11:03amFor the sake of argument, go with a cyclic rate of 600rds per minute. Gives you 10 rounds per second.
Most weapons smaller than M2 .50cal will easily be able to hit that rate of fire. I am, of course, assuming these weapons are capable of automatic fire (which most aren’t). i.e. pistols, M4′s, etc.
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AmericaMustBeFree
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:46pmHere’s what they know.. The American citizen is the best armed military and that scares the crap out of them! We have got to figh for our 2nd Amendment rights! Please donate to the NRA, they are going to need the money to fight this fight against the Socialist, Marixts and Communists thatare running the country! God help us all!
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soybomb315_II
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:28pm“Cruz said he supported using measures to update the Federal database of who was ineligible to own a firearm”
Who are they talking about? I am pretty sure the federal database is up to date – otherwise what is the point of background checks? Me thinks there is something more sinister to this
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RJJinGadsden
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:41pmNo, actually they are really lax with it. The AT-F Troop can be and have proven themselves to be a bunch of lazy goof offs in the past when it comes to maintaining records. You should put your eyes on the mess they actually are. I’ve dealt with them a couple of times on a professional basis, and they scare me sh/tless sometimes.
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IndyGuy
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:45pmRj…If they’ve scared you sh/tless…at least nobody can say you’re full of sh/t…
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soybomb315_II
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:54pmwell then i am glad they are lax with it. once you are approved to buy a particular weapon – i dont think the government should keep the record in order to hunt you down at a later date
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Look4DBigPicture
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:58pmYou need to watch it again, Soy, because he’s not talking about the gun ownership database. He’s talking about quality of the federal database because states and local jurisdictions aren’t reporting criminal convictions and mental health barriers to ownership.
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another pucker
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:06pmDo you really think the federal data base is up to date? Some government worker is supposed to do their job and pass it on to another government workers who is supposed to do their job and so on and so on and so on. This administration knows that most all convicted felons have access to a firearm because they don’t care about the law, they just want a federal register of law abiding citizens so they know who to come and confiscate weapons from! Just say Hell NO!
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RJJinGadsden
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:08pmSOY, On that I agree. What concerns me is that they are lax when it comes to keeping up with records on the Class III license they issue, and have actually charged citizens with illegal gun ownership when it was they who lost their own records of issued license. And yes, the citizens presented their paperwork and were still arrested. Happened quite a bit under the Clinton Admin. Not saying Clinton had anything to do with it. They also let slip the names and full identities of those who are found guilty of crimes and are supposed to lose their 2nd Amendment rights, as well as lax on the listings of the mentally unstable who are actually reported. Think about it, some crazies have shot up their chosen venues over recent years.
INDYGUY, LOL, I hope so.
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engineerairborne
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:25pmOver half the military would quit if ever ordered to go out and seize weapons from the populist. Who would the Government ever find to go do it, the hippies, the protestors? The gun owners are your military and your police.
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freeberty
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:55pmThe military and police are nothing but a welfare jobs program. They’ll take the side of whom ever signs their check.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/congressional/20130106_Biden_group_planning_broad_gun-control_effort.html
Quote from article
“In addition to potential legislative proposals, Biden’s group has expanded its focus to include measures that would not need congressional approval and could be quickly implemented by executive action, according to interest-group leaders who have discussed options with Biden and key cabinet secretaries.”
The meeting included law enforcement officials.
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wes60
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:08pmWell said. They must remmember that a large portion of the people aare ex military and well trained
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Wisdom7
Jan. 6, 2013 at 8:21pm“The military and police are nothing but a welfare jobs program.”
Oh really?
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MoseyAlong
Jan. 7, 2013 at 11:12am@ Free
Stop being so cynical. Just because the Gov’t gives you a paycheck doesn’t mean you are “on the dole.”
I can think of several reasons why neither the military nor the police are tipping their hand. I”m sure you can too.
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STEV3E
Jan. 9, 2013 at 10:13amThe regular military will refuse, I agree, but not husain obama’s personal millitary, the TSA, FEMA, and these guys: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543822,00.html
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neverending
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:21pmGreat addition to the Senate. Great proven leader and he is just getting started. Wish we could have gotten about a dozen more just like him,
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Look4DBigPicture
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:01pmThey’re out there … we just need to find them and get them elected.
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blanco5
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:20pmRand Paul/Tom Cruz 2016
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starcross1
Jan. 6, 2013 at 9:48pm———–Trey Goudy, Allen West, jst to name a couple more–
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starcross1
Jan. 6, 2013 at 9:59pm—Just off the top of my head, I’d throw in Trey Goudy, and Allen West with Ted Cruz. INHO—
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Thighmaster
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:19pmLet me get this straight, we need to limit citizens second amendment rights but give the president unlimited rights under the 14th amendment ? Isn’t this exactly why we HAVE the second amendment ?
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RJJinGadsden
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:43pmThat is not even close to anything that Cruz is saying. Pelosi, yes, but not Cruz.
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Thighmaster
Jan. 6, 2013 at 6:44pmI didn’t say that was what Cruz said. I was speaking of the opposition. I read both sides. Click on my name and you’ll see where I stand.
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AUsername
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:18pmGood start for Ted Cruz.
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Look4DBigPicture
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:00pmLove the Cruz!!!
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Lt_Scrounge
Jan. 6, 2013 at 11:25pmYeah we like Cruz here in Texas too. Of course he wasn’t the establishment Republican choice for the job, but Dewhurst lost to Cruz in the primaries despite the Republican party’s best efforts to force another worthless RINO down our throats.
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Uechi
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:14pmThe only useless waste of Oxygen is you Encinom. No matter what the facts are, you couldn’t find your **** with both hands and a manual. You are a waste product!
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Fecal_Matters
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:24pmEncinom = Enema… a procedure of introducing liquids into the rectum and colon via the anus.
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Bum thrower
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:31pmI agree; Ask that leftist from CA what the constitutional clause autherizes her sicko, anti American legislation. Any senator who co-sponsers we need to start immediately to un elect….by any means….as the Alinskites say…” the end justifies the means”….
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civilwarcometh
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:07pmDon’t take long for Constitutional hateing troll’s to post. Wish we could just rid our country once and for all of these subhuman animals. Where’s a well regulated militia when you need one?
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Chrisrob63
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:07pmGood for him. I am glad someone in Washington has a backbone; but time will tell. Others we thought we could trust, folded like lawn chairs or buckled like a belt.
We also need to have some kind of policy regarding these pychotropic drugs that doctors are feeding these kids.
We still have not found out what, if any drugs these people who supposedly did these crimes were taking, even though they are dead. I would bet dollars to donuts, if they were high on coke, meth, or alcohol, it would have come out within 24 hours of the incident.
And for that matter, I am still not convinced that this Sandy Hook incident that we have heard is the whole truth. Not sure what is and is not true, but if this is a false flag or Reichstag(sic) fire moment, we need to know and act accordingly.
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Bum thrower
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:05pmOkay ‘encinom’. What’s your solution. No one seem partiularly concerned by all the BLACKS being gunned down in ‘Chitown’….the sickofant that shot up the school in CN killed his own mother first to get the firearms. Oh, by the way; ‘the right to keep and bear arms’ is MY BIRTHRIGHT; no SOB leftist, liberal is gonna pass ANY law to deny me my birth right… PERIOD
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fixer
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:58pmGod given rights CANNOT BE LEGISLATED AWAY by ANYONE!
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encinom
Jan. 6, 2013 at 8:33pmThat is the problem for the fringe right Christians, the gun has replaced the cross as a symbol of their faith. Nor do you have a birth right to own an assault rifle.
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dmerwin
Jan. 6, 2013 at 8:40pmencinom
You are wrong. Read the 2nd amendment and tell me where it says what type of firearm you are “allowed” to own. Moron.
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TH30PH1LUS
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:04pmThank you for standing up for individual liberty & the Constitution, Senator Cruz!
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fraumj
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:02pmI have high hopes for Ted Cruz. I would like to comment that it is not enough to just say a law is unconstitutional. I think conservative/libertarian lawmakers should understand and clearly articulate the negative effect of these gun control proposals on the liberties of the people, which is what the Founders did in order to put the 2nd Amendment in the Constitution in the first place.
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DizzyGrandma
Jan. 6, 2013 at 3:56pmYou are everything you represented yourself to be. God bless you!!
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denkat56
Jan. 6, 2013 at 3:53pmThe 2nd amendment insures the right to bear arms as long as we are law abiding citizens. These politicians that use the death of others to push political agendas through, are just as guilty as the perpetrator of the crime itself.
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RJJinGadsden
Jan. 6, 2013 at 3:48pmI love this guy, and God Bless all of the Texans who voted for him.
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Action-Not-Just_Words
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:02pmOk Enema… your solution is what? Please be detailed.
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RJJinGadsden
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:03pmENCINOM, I spent the majority of my adult life carrying one or more weapons practically on a daily basis. Tell me where I am wrong.
Oh yeah, keep your kneepads for yourself. I’m sure they are more practical for you anyway.
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Steelhead
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:03pmthe man is an idiot, God help us if more like him are elected
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CatB
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:05pmAgree RJJINGADSDEN !
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cemerius
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:06pmNow if they can just find it in them to throw out Sheila Jackson Lee….Texas would be a Utopia!
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The-Monk
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:08pm@encinom
You can lend him yours if you’re so inclined….
But I doubt you’ll ever part with them.
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RJJinGadsden
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:38pmENCINOM got deleted? Frankly, I wish that his post had remained intact so all could see just what kind of person he is.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:41pmAgreed, we need more Senators who, not only have actually read and understand the Constitution, but try to protect us from those who have not, but made an oath that they would.
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blanco5
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:44pmCemerius—-she got into her position like most demonrats—she cheated. No self-respecting Texan would vote for her!
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DAS_MOOCH
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:51pmYa, they’re all idiots to you STEEL unles they are pinko, commie, marxist control freaks. Oh and femininazi, tree huggin environmentalist nut job.
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ltdan
Jan. 6, 2013 at 3:48pmI hope that the true conservatives can can build a coalition of support to save our second amendment rights.
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encinom
Jan. 6, 2013 at 3:57pmI hope that Senators that care about Americans will defeat any group of NRA brought and paid for politicans and do what is in the best interest of the nation and not the paranoid gun nuts and the gun maker’s lobby.
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RJJinGadsden
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:06pmENCINOM, wow, you refer to somebody else being paranoid?
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SwampFoxHiggy
Jan. 6, 2013 at 4:29pmENCINOM why dont you move your liberal gun control loving azz to southside chicago. I hear they have just the gun-control laws you’re looking for… and oh yeah, the highest murder rate in the country…
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Fubared
Jan. 6, 2013 at 5:18pmEncidiot
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Ontario-Convention-Center-Crossroads-of-the-West-Gun-Show-Firearms-185769562.html
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Bodacious_Boedi
Jan. 6, 2013 at 3:45pmIf we MUST suffer politicians, let’em be alot more like this guy!!!!
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