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Topic: S.F. seeks to crack
down on ammunition |
S.F. seeks to crack
down on ammunition
San Francisco Chronicle, by Marisa Lagos
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Posted By:Ribicon, 12/21/2012 11:03:44 AM
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| Saying that high-powered, military-style weapons and ammunition have no place in San Francisco, city leaders on Thursday announced a proposal to ban the possession of hollow bullets and require anyone buying more than 500 rounds at a time to notify the Police Department. The announcement by Mayor Ed Lee, Supervisor Malia Cohen and Police Chief Greg Suhr came less than a week after the Connecticut school massacre in which 26 people were killed by a gunman wielding a semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle. San Francisco tried banning semiautomatic weapons altogether in city limits, but was stymied by the courts;
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Comments:
Sure, SF will spend a pile of money it does not have on lawsuits. But consider the lives saved; crazed criminals bent on murder will remember that their weapons are loaded with hollowpoints and return home, stymied.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
noproblems, 12/21/2012 11:07:45 AM (No. 9077740)
another useless political gester (jester?)
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Cavallodifiero, 12/21/2012 11:12:58 AM (No. 9077753)
Rewrite for the SFC.
Connecticut school massacre in which 26 people were killed by a PSYCHO gunman wielding a semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle.
Somehow the misprints always seem to get by the "journalists" they seem to be short on space so they leave out the facts! I don´t think the Police in SF should be carrying guns either and in particular the task force.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
athina, 12/21/2012 11:18:25 AM (No. 9077768)
Guess where the next psycho mass shooting will take place.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
grampagasman, 12/21/2012 11:25:40 AM (No. 9077802)
I may be wrong but I don´t believe there are any gun shops left in SF. So where do San Franciscans get these awful bullets and guns?
Duh, a few miles south in San Mateo County, or east in Alameda County.
Geeeezzzz.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
spincut, 12/21/2012 11:26:30 AM (No. 9077805)
Those hollow bullets are really dangerous!!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LadyHen, 12/21/2012 11:32:34 AM (No. 9077826)
More liberal security theater.
So fair warning, there will be lots of collateral damage from thru and thru bullets in the packed urban areas of SF. Hollow points aren´t just for the shooters safety via stopping power but for any innocent who might be anywhere behind the shooter´s target.
Also of note.. why is it that Obama´s federal government has ordered enough hollow point bullets (not for military use) for its civilians forces (the National Weather Service, NOAA, DHS, the SSA among others??) to put 5 bullets in every man, woman, and child in this nation? Just a little fact that gave me a great deal of pause. What are they up to?
Obama´s government has ordered 1.5 billion hollow point rounds. To give perspective, our troops in Iraq used a total of 70 million rounds in a year of combat.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 12/21/2012 11:34:48 AM (No. 9077835)
Out of curiosity, how can SF make online suppliers repot squat? Assume the online supplier is outside the People´s Republic, then Federal, not local law has jurisdiction. And Federal law doesn´t require the supplier to supply any city, town, village or hovel information about its customers.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
texasguy, 12/21/2012 11:49:00 AM (No. 9077870)
"hollow bullets designed for military use"?
Little foggy on the Geneva Convention, are we?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 12/21/2012 11:54:52 AM (No. 9077885)
Insane Francisco. So much for freedom in SF. You are free to be very weird, but the government officials do want you to be able to defend yourself against the weirdos (or the government who wants to take away more freedoms once you are disarmed).
To be fair, you would almost have to be psycho to ant to live in asylum SF, so maybe they do have a valid argument.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey, 12/21/2012 12:12:11 PM (No. 9077929)
Wow, I just made it...I just placed orders for 499 bullets, 10 times... /sarcasm
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mai Bad, 12/21/2012 3:42:58 PM (No. 9078291)
Yo...yo... yeah...Yeah and all the old gays in SF should be banned from purchasing Viagra!!,
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
veritas, 12/21/2012 3:53:33 PM (No. 9078312)
Yeah, well, our liberty and independence weren´t won if SF, but in Philadelphia, Boston, New Jersey, Virginia and other points east. Maybe Marisa needs to learn about the roots of the Constitution.
SF´s solons also need to raise their comprehension of human nature by quite a few orders of magnitude.
#8: Bingo. Poster gets an attaboy, and exemption from homework ´til 1/20.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
kono, 12/21/2012 7:54:12 PM (No. 9078598)
Some good comments on this thread. #9 inspires me to refer to the city, from now on, as Insane Francisco.
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