<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 9:44 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><span class="gmail_default"></span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>it would be constitutional to make individual ownership of anything more advanced than a revolver or a bolt action rifle illegal…</font></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>>  <i>No worries, there are revolvers and bolt action rifles that are more advanced than anything currently going out the door at the gun shop today</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Fine. Gun Digest magazine lists the 8 best manual bolt action rifles of all time, take your pick:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://gundigest.com/rifles/8-top-bolt-action-rifles-for-hunting-and-more"><font size="4">Top 8 Bolt-Action Rifles</font></a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Note that the AR-15 design was mature in the 1960s </i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">The AR-15 is not a manual bolt action rifle, neither is the AK-47.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> > <i>I checked with Walmart, they don’t have a nuclear weapons aisle.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And there is only one reason for that, most people are not insane and so they know that if the human race is not to go extinct there must be limits placed on the Second Amendment; reasonable people can disagree on exactly where to draw the line, but once you get to Nerve Gas, Anthrax Bombs, and Thermonuclear Warheads you're clearly in the land of the looney.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div>