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In reply to the discussion: How do you know the things you know about guns? [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)6. 1 and 3. Also, gun owner's manual. Yes, Martha...
they do exist, and will be mailed to you free of charge, even if you purchase a used arm. (Over the last 25+ yrs, the manufacturer & its address has been impressed into the gun barrel in what has become known as the "billboard." Loading, unloading, safe handling, maintenance steps w/ pictures, and of course the exploded picture with a parts list.
Many useful web sites covering any aspects of firearms. Great safety culture is developing from this, IMO.
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That's the most forthright argument for willful ignorance I've ever seen
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2014
#12
It's the only game they have. Honest discourse would lead to defeat of their arguments.
NYC_SKP
Mar 2014
#13
How exactly do you propose confiscating 300 million+ firearms, billions of magazines,
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#18
So you propose making the manufacture of all firearms, magazines, and ammunition illegal.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#23
Dissension from their philosophy of civilian disarmament is too much for them to bear.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#25