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Aviation Pro

(13,624 posts)
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 12:49 PM Dec 4

With 450,000,000 privately held firearms in the hands of Americans

Including the ability to tax stamp them with suppressors (silencers), convert them to full auto and turn them into short-barreled rifles, I suspect that vigilantism will be on the rise for at least the foreseeable future.

Until enough CEOs and others making bad decisions for profit over lives scream loud enough for Motherfucker and the cult to seriously curtail the 2A.

This will be the real "find out" moment for so many.

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With 450,000,000 privately held firearms in the hands of Americans (Original Post) Aviation Pro Dec 4 OP
Maybe...but I think it's much more likely... Fiendish Thingy Dec 4 #1

Fiendish Thingy

(19,000 posts)
1. Maybe...but I think it's much more likely...
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 01:17 PM
Dec 4

That we see a dramatic increase in corporations and billionaires hiring/creating their own private “militias”/security teams.

That way, “real ‘Muricans” get to keep their fetish objects, and the rich folks are protected from the disgruntled rabble, and the gun companies continue to reap the benefits.

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