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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

The NRA wants to build a themed restaurant in Times Square. The local liberals are trying to stop them even though the NRA said they won't sell guns there.

Can someone find an article on this? I've searched about 6 news sites and it either isn't being reported, or you have to 'purchase' archived articles...

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Though I understand (but not agree) on the views of the NRA and the pro-gun advocates, I do believe that this is way over the top.

"I'd like a Tek-9 Submarine Sandwich, easy on the bullets please....."

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

NRA-themed restauraunt = every hunting lodge in the @#$%&ing COUNTRY. So what?

Of course, you wouldn't hear it portrayed that way in the press, who are more concerned about making lame jokes like:

Waitress: "automatic or semiautomatic?"

Without remembering (or even caring if the comment is accurate - some journalism!) that automatics have been outlawed for decades.

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

Tahna:

"I do believe that this is way over the top."

Why? The purpose is to defeat the false image that the liberal media has created of the NRA being some evil group that LIKES it when hundreds of children are killed by guns every year (even though the number is closer to two dozen; but who cares about accuracy?). They want to show that the NRA, unlike all these special intrest groups that liberals love, is just made up of ordinary, every day people on the street across every demographic, and not the gun-toting rednecks that shoot beercans off fenceposts for fun that some people think it's made up of.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

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Without remembering (or even caring if the comment is accurate - some journalism!) that automatics have been outlawed for decades.

Yeah, and that's stopped SO many people from getting them.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

And yet people think that further gun control will help anything...

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Here's what America's Greatest News Source had to say about it.

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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

That was from last weeks news.

"Get the Hail of'a mah property!"

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

*can't think of one person who has an automatic weapon, not any time an automatic weapon has been used by someone who wasn't already a criminal (or in the military) in the last 20 years, or any manufacturer/public distributor of automatic weapons in the US*

So how're "they" getting all these SO easy-to-get weapons, and who's using them? Who ARE "they?"

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Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

Criminals, who as part of their cover, put NRA stickers on their trucks to look like law-abiding citizens.

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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

Actually, my uncle has a room full of automatic weapons. Uzi, AK, you name it. He doesn't use them, except to make sure they still work. He was never in the Armed Forces, but still owns them anyway.

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

*hears sirens in the distance*

Actually, it is (or at least, was last time I checked) legal to own both Uzi's and AK-47's, provided their capacity for firing at full auto has been removed. It is illegal to convert them to full auto, as it is with any gun. (not, as it's been said before, that making things illegal necessarily stops bad people from doing them, only good people.)

See, most of such weapons have two settings, single-shot and automatic. The difference is how many times you have to pull the trigger. On an automatic, you simply hold down the trigger and it empties the clip, fairly quickly. on single shot, you have to pull the trigger each time. (In my opinion, a superior option, as it conserves ammunition, and your bullets don't go flying in the wrong directions due to the weapon's 'kick.' - it's harder to hit a single target on full auto, because the blast from each firing pushes your gun to one side.)

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Single shot also allows you to recognize the animal after you shot it, too.

I was gonna say much of what Omega and First of Two said, but I didn't have time. Thanks, you two.

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Why stop at AK-47's? Hell, I think every house needs an m1-A1, an SSBN and an ABM. Did I leave anything out?

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Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on :

Hey you forgot the Air-Fuel Bomb, cluster bombs, and cruise missiles.

Actually in all but a few cases it has been automatic weapons have been outlawed since 1933, however there are about a thousand people who are legally liceased to own automatic weapons, but I have never heard one of those people being involved in a crime.

Well there is also generally a third setting on an automatic rifle, which is a 3 shot burst, which gives the advantage of every shot flying to slightly different place that isn't to far from the last shot, and in conserves ammo (actually technically the M-16 isn't an automatic weapon because it max fire rate is now a 3 shot burst). I thought conversion kits were legal before a certain point, oh well.

Ah Jeff you never shot a squirel with a 12 gauge, have you

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

And even illegally owned uzis and other submachine guns are arrely used in crimes. Oh, you see them a lot on TV, but that's 'cause it's TV.

Too many people in the 80's got their ideas about crime AND law enforcement from "Miami Vice."

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

*ponders shooting a squirrel with a 12 gauge*

HAHAHAHAHA.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

My father and I used to shoot grackles and starlings (destructive pest bird species, if you don't already know) with shotguns.

A close-range shot can practically vaporize one. Icky.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Cheerful.

But to go back (waaayy back) to the original point, er, WHY is the NRA opening a restaurant? I just don't see the connection. What has an organisation for rifle ownership/Satanic worshipping (delete as appropriate) got to do with yummy food? You don't see the NSPCC starting up cafe's in your local town, do you?

Or is this just because theUS is experiencing a restaurant shortage. Lord, imagine if you actually had to walk 30 paces before you could eat something. You all might keel over and die from starvation.

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

I answered that in my first post, Liam.

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Yeah Liam, you're right.

Now we can open a Klan restaurant on Times Square so we can suplant those negative "liberal" images of lynchings ect...with a kindler, gentler image of a caring civic organization.

No need for a bib with kids meals when you get the hood.

If the locals, liberals or not (which you just seem to assume they are), don't want an NRA restaurant in Times Square, I should imagine that all you anti-federal government types should support a local action to try and stop it.

Personally, I couldn't care less. Were it to be built it would not receive and orders for fries from me (I said FRIES not FIRE!)...just as that classy chain Hooters (sure it's about Owls) gets none of my business.

But then again, I'm sure someone will come up with some conspiracy that says the Clinton Administration is pulling strings to stop the restaurant from being built.

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Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

No Jay, your wrong, Hooters is a family restaurant.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I wouldn't want to eat at an NRA restaurant either, or any theme restaurant for that matter. (Except of course a Star Trek one. Solidarity, brothers.) But I suppose they have as much reason to open one as a trio of supermodels do.

Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Hooters must be the only family restaurant that gives raises with each breast implant then.

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Omega, may I suggest that you may not have answered it to his satisfaction?

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Two Words: Planet Hollywood.

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

Daryus:

"Omega, may I suggest that you may not have answered it to his satisfaction?"

No. You may not. I will smite you if you even contemplate suggesting such a thing.

My explanation seems clear enough. The NRA has been given a false bad image. They are attempting to combat this image by opening a restaraunt, which will presumably have free brochures or something like that.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Surely the NRA couldn't be opening a restaurant simply because they think there's profit in it. Heavens no.

Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

It'd really only be worth going to if you could shoot your own fowl, or goose or whatever the hell you're going to eat.

Like those places where you pick your lobster.

Hopefully someone will take the menu seriously and believe that a Heston burger is actually made of what it says it is.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

So if the satirizing journalists/comedians are dead wrong (like they don't do the same to every other news item), what exactly does this THEMED restaurant feature? Bullet-shaped fries?

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Maybe. Or maybe it's a giant picture of Charlton Heston on every wall, explaining that the NRA chose him because of his ability to stand by what he believes, even when the facts are telling him that he's completely wrong.

I mean, come on. THE MONKEYS SPOKE ENGLISH! WHAT MORE OF A FUCKING HINT DO YOU WANT CHARLIE?

Jeez, how can this man refuse to see what's staring him blindly in the face?

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I heard that there are people in France that speak English. That's a clear indication that the entire universe will within a few years.

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Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

except California

Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

Of course they speak English. That's the language all the good TV shows and video games are in.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I thought that was Japanese.

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Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

This place would be the only restaurant where after waiting a long time for your food and saying, "What's wrong, did they have to go kill it first?" might be the truth.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Soylent Cola Sol, you kill me!!

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Well, it's a quote from Futurama. But I'm pleased that you're pleased.

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