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RE: "The Pew" Community || HIVE-139358
I advocate gun control as follows:
- Always treat every gun as loaded
- Never point a gun at anything you don't want to shoot
- Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you intend to fire
- Be sure of your target, and know what is beyond it, before taking a shot
I have some ideas for firearm posts. I hope to get some range time this weekend.
Is that a SCAR in the top pic? A friend of mine has a SCAR-17, and it's a nice rifle. His muzzle device tames .308 down to feeling almost like .223, but the muzzle blast to the sides is fierce. He changed his optics, and I bought his old ACOG.
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They're good safety points and anyone handling a firearm should be doing these things as second nature.
The rifle, as mentioned at the end of the post, is a Warwick Firearms rifle, the WFA1 bolt gun in .223 but the link here shows the new WFA1-L which is a lighter version. The one in my blog has been heavily modified. I use it for practical run-and-gun events.
I'm not sure if you know but semi, or full, automatic rifles are regulated here...Only certain people can obtain permits for them. Of course semi-auto handguns are permitted and I have several. This WFA1 is about as good as it gets for us Aussies.
I'm looking forward to seeing some of your firearms posts.
I live in the Land of the Allegedly Free, and anyone who knows anything about firearms should know that actual machine guns and assault rifles are subject to heavy regulation here, but the general public thinks semi-auto-only AR clones and similar modern rifles are "assault weapons" just because they are made of materials invented after 1800 and designed with ergonomics in mind.
And I'm afraid I completely overlooked the image notes at the end of your post. I suppose a modern sporting rifle could be converted to a straight-pull bolt action by deleting the gas impingement or piston mechanism. No port in the barrel and the bolt can remain the same, essentially, right?
Gun regulations got turned on their head here in Australia after a 34-person massacre in Port Arthur. It is different state by state but fairly similar across all. It's different to America though, and there's a lot of false information flying around.
I think that's the thing with it; One needs to know the laws for the area in which they live and that's about it. I have no idea what the laws are there, only that I have been told California are more strict on certain firearms than some other states.
As far as people who use the word assault when referring to particular rifles...Well, again, people should learn about what they speak of, before speaking...But they generally don't of course.
I'm not sure how easy a gas gun could be turned into a bolt gun but your logic seems sound. Going the other way, bolt to gas would not be as easy I think. That WFA1 is a decent him though, a bit of fun to use, although would be better in semi-auto.