Quote Originally Posted by Diamondback View Post
Ad to think some "pro-gun" forums take offense to such posts... not so much the PITA part as the comparison to their spiritual forebears, refusing to take into account that as a professional historian when I make such comparisons it is not hyperbole or rhetoric but deliberate comparisons between regimes, their officials and patterns of behavior thereof.

It's not the ignorant of history dooming themselves to repeat it that's the problem, it's them forcing us to stay on the bound-for-wreck runaway train with them. If we could safely get off and let them do their thing by themselves, the problem would swiftly solve itself...
Well said. I understand that our schools are abysmal failures and don’t teach history, but it seems no one wants to take it upon themselves to read a history book either.

Quote Originally Posted by Averageman View Post
So can I now buy a Silencer without approval from Daddy Joe?
I wish. Technically this ruling does nothing since it only effects Maxim Defense existing customers and FPC members. You still can’t buy a braces pistol, even from Maxim.