Now the Brady Bunch wants our target rifles

[Silverback]

So who has a rifle that can derail a train?

OPSEC!

[Rock Island Ranger]

Oh yea, like this is new. Why, hell....I derailed the Boston Express with a musket back in 1850's...shot a Buffler at 1300 yards, hit him in the eye, ....

Brady bunch....well informed people Im telling you.

[BadMuther]

Man, they are right!!

Next we'll have to pass laws banning "assault bows". That's right, these high-power weapons have no place in modern America. They are capable of rapid-firing multi projectiles and are responsible for multiple deaths throughout history!!

[Rock Island Ranger]

I was being slightly sarcastic

I wasnt. I really did derail the Boston Express with a musket back in 1800's.

[Looon]

[42L5V]

Sniper Rifles can be equipped with precision optics above even what the Military uses, allowing a sniper to deliver rounds within millimeters of accuracy - enabling them to engage targets at distances of well over one hundred meters. Is there a pressing need to be able to kill with accuracy at that distance? It is too far to justify as self defense. It is too far for hunting. It is only useful for those who wish to murder from afar.

yeah. well informed. I can spit Copenhagen with accuracy at 100 meters.

[Black 6]

First deer I shot with my .340 was at 325m. One shot, it was dead before it hit the ground. Of course in the open terrain that I was hunting in, there is no way you could get inside of 200m of the deer without a ghillie.

…. They are too big and heavy to take to the field…

(not mine)

What I do wish is them to make up their mind.....
First they say:

…. can derail freight cars, shoot down aircraft and helicopters…

Then:

… Designed for distance shooting, they are useless for the ranges at which game animals are normally shot, and when used on sporting sized game at range they often just wound the animal, inhumanely forcing it to die slowly while the would-be hunter tracks it to finish it off…

And back to:

...allowing a sniper to deliver rounds within millimeters of accuracy - enabling them to engage targets at distances of well over one hundred meters…

…. A murderer camped at a distance from a public gathering could quickly turn it into a massacre dwarfing anything we have seen before in the United States…

…Sniper Rifles shoot a high powered bullet that is almost always fatal. They are designed for one thing- delivering powerful overkill with deadly precision…

Of course any law we make in the US will have a massive impact on an AULSTRALIAN COMPANY:

...A shipment of large caliber machine-gun round sniper rifles made by Steyr turned up in Iran…

I am now looking at the numbers on deaths caused by Large cal rounds, and deaths caused by alcohol. I will post later on that.

[The Holmchicken]

I was being slightly sarcastic

I wasnt. I really did derail the Boston Express with a musket back in 1800's.

Now you just derail bingo games by showing your sack!!

[Rock Island Ranger]

I was being slightly sarcastic

I wasnt. I really did derail the Boston Express with a musket back in 1800's.

Now you just derail bingo games by showing your sack!!

You knew about that??? It wasn't all bad. The Catholic Church Friday nite Bingo extraveganza needed a...boost. How else than show them Snoopy.

[The Holmchicken]

I wasnt. I really did derail the Boston Express with a musket back in 1800's.

Now you just derail bingo games by showing your sack!!

You knew about that??? It wasn't all bad. The Catholic Church Friday nite Bingo extraveganza needed a...boost. How else than show them Snoopy.

Yeah, a boost. Not a flop and fizzle.

[Horned Toad]

If a 30/30 is a sniper rifle my 45/70 lever action must be a precision killing machine