Please do put up some more pics Ducimus, it's a timeless classic of a weapon, reminds me a lot of the Garand, versatile, reliable, good rate of fire, and its weight, although a drawback in terms of mobility, is also useful for potential close quarter combat, if you don't have the bayonet attached that is.
In terms of a creep of governmental control, I can understand now the concern which comes around gun control laws as taken along with other restrictive laws which have been passed in order to 'fight terror', unfortunately this is a slippery slope that many people foresaw back when the PATRIOT act was being put together, but hindsight is a wonderful thing as they say. It certainly is a case that we live in uncertain times, and the possibility of this fact being abused to further governmental control cannot be denied, it's not an American thing, I've been concerned about the same thing happening in this country for a while now, particularly when they tried to pass a law to snoop on emails. Fortunately enough public outrage was able to be stirred up to stop it, however with something like firearms, and their links to school shootings...that's a harder thing to rally people behind.
I'm, personally, on the fence, but leaning towards the need to do more for mental health care than the accessibility of firearms, however there is certainly a need to examine the gun culture in depth, if only for gaining additional knowledge of peoples views and how they feel that problems like school shootings should be addressed.
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