Originally posted by BobS:
Now you confuse me, from the way you are arguing I would make the wrong assumption that you were one of those anti-gun people who could not tell the difference between a .177 C02 pellet pistol or a 9mm S&W if it was pointed right in your face. I think you and I disagree on ballistics evidence from firing guns in the air. I don't automatically believe anything I see in print unless personal experience backs it up. I live on 10 wooded acres where I can legally shoot off my back porch. I do not hunt and just let all the critters around me be. I do enjoy target shooting at intimate objects. The last thing I killed was my failed water heater, I had to drain the water out of it somehow before I hauled it to the dump, why not shoot it a few hundred times? Anyway if had 4 square miles of flat ground I would conduct my own firing in the air gun's test, since I don't I have to believe what I Google for and watched on a Myth-Busters episode. Being a calm person who usually reacts correctly in an emergency situation I despise people who panic, but most people will. I have seen people lose their mind and run around screaming just because a bee is flying by. What happens if that same prone to panic person is driving a car down the highway and the windshield gets shattered by a bullet falling from the sky? Let alone studies that show a bullet fired up can pierce bone (rare) or flesh (not so rare).
Sorry, not trying to confuse anyone, just trying to clarify, at least in my own mind. If I were anti-gun, across the board, I would be arguing that Aldon was wrong to fire a gun in any direction, ever, at all. And I don't agree with that position.
I also don't agree with charging him with felony counts of illegally possessing firearms that he legally purchased in another state, that were legal to own and purchase in that state. He should be given an opportunity to modify the weapons once he found out that they did not comply with California requirements.
[ Edited by oldninerdude on Apr 24, 2014 at 12:38 PM ]