Comments on: Federal 50 Cal Regulation

By: markm

markm — Wed, 04 May 2005 11:56:57 +0000

Barry, if you’re strong enough and sneaky enough to carry a 28 pound 5 foot long rifle up those stairs, you could knock out the window with the gun butt – and why wouldn’t the magical invisibility spell that got the rifle through without being noticed also keep the window breakage from being noticed?

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 04 May 2005 09:27:02 +0000

How stupid is Dianne Feinstein? She speculates on someone taking a .50 cal sniper rifle up to the top of the Washington Monument!

I’ve been to the top of the Washington Monument, so… Assuming 1) nobody notices you carrying it in the elevator, which is a little bigger than a phone booth, and 2) HELLO! it’s not like there’s an observation platform at the top! The observation area is about the size of your average clothes closet and the windows are about an inch thick, set in stone.

DiFi is as dumb as dirt, and she and California deserve each other.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 04 May 2005 00:11:21 +0000

*elevator (i type to fast)

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 03 May 2005 22:23:04 +0000

It would be interesting to see how someone could drag a very heavy .50 rifle up the steps/elavator (never been there do they have an elavator?)and nonchalantly whip it out once on top to take pot shots without someone “noticing”.

By: Heartless Libertarian

Heartless Libertarian — Tue, 03 May 2005 15:08:42 +0000

A bit more realistic perspective:

Assuming you could, somehow, get one up to the top and park it there, an M1A2 Abrams tank, with a 120mm cannon, laser rangefinder and computer fire control, would be at the fringes of it’s effective range trying to hit a tank size target at 4 miles (6400 meters) away.

A .50BMG bullet might actually fly 4 miles, but you’re not going to be able to hit anything effectively. And that assumes you can even see a target to aim at at that range.

By: CharlesH

CharlesH — Tue, 03 May 2005 13:27:59 +0000

I suppose someone up there could target anyone, and with about the same effectiveness as if he bracketed the target with his fingers (along his line of sight) and squeezed them together saying, “I’m crushing your head! I’m crushing your head!”