House Lewis: Sanity is Relative
I'm hardly an authority on guns, but if your choice of weapon was based primarily on a desire to be able to conceal it, wouldn't something that lends itself more naturally to the task, like a pistol, be more effective than a larger beast like an assault rifle?
To want to saw off an assault rifle seems to be mixing up one's priorities with the weapon.
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Yes, that was the joke.
The poorly poorly conceived joke.
edited 14th Nov '10 9:17:03 AM by TheyCallMeTomu
Well you could have used the SOAR but with a different framing sentence.
If a company gives something away with their product (say a $400 assault rifle) then it has saved the customer the value of that product but it has only cost the manufacturer the price of buying that product wholesale. So let's say Crazy Ivan's Warehouse is selling AK's in batches of 500 for 300 each then it's 100 bucks cheaper than the company making an actual $400 cut on the price of their product. It's also a lot more effectively because $400 off the price of a haulage truck probably isn't much whereas an AK-47 has its own distinctness.
The only problem would occur if, people decide to just take the discount and not the gun, in which case the truck sellers have a truckload (HAH!) of unsold assault riffles.
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They're not selling assault rifles. Just rifles that happen to look like assault rifles. An assault rifle has some common criteria assigned to them:
- Selective-fire (be it burst or full automatic)
- Fires an intermediate cartridge (roughly between a pistol caliber and full-sized rifle caliber)
- Fed from a detachable box magazine (otherwise, a belt-fed Light Machiengun would be an assault rifle)
- A rifle. (no such animal as an assault pistol or assault weapon. I blame media type for this.)
Using those definitions, a semi-auto version of an AK-47 isn't a true assault rifle, despite looking like one.
But yes, if people take the instant $400 discount, that's one more rifle left on the shelf.
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Who's talking about them. I'm talking about my new business venture: Crazy Ivan's Low Price Warehouse. Semi-auto only AK's would ruin my brand identity. What am I going to say? When you occasionally, possibly , have to kill a fair percentage of motherfuckers in the room?
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Legality. Selective-fire weapons are under some really strict federal controls, currently.
So, you wouldn't market them as semi-auto explicitly, but it will go without saying that the arms you will be selling will be semi-auto only, to comply with federal laws.
Unless - You're in a place that doesn't care about selective-fire weapons being sold to John Q Public.
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Because it was a lame joke to point out that the reason handguns are used for criminal purposes is due to their ability to be concealed, and a joking answer for how to use an assault rifle's superior firepower in conjunction with a more concealable form?