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Astral Projection - Heaven's Gate

Oozish - Orange Horizons Quite possibly the weirdest sounding song I've ever heard, in a good way.

As it stands now, Fully automatic weapons are still illegal despite the lifting of the ban. They CAN be aquired, but you need special permits. Either way, you can't use them for hunting. Same deal with supressors and silencers - If you can give the ATF a good reason why you need one (and pay them a large one time tax fee) you can get licenses to own them. G36 - high capacity magazine, full auto/semi, folding stock = assault weapon. Same gun, renamed SL9 - semi automatic only, low capacty magazine, fixed stock, no flash suppressor or integrated red dot sight = standard rifle. If you've got a beef with certain weapons making it unfair to the animal, as many people do...the animal has little chance either way. But moreso than better weapons, traps are the inhumane, unfair part in my eyes...if you're not hunting for food because you HAVE to, laying traps and coming back to shoot a dehydrated deer after it's been stuck in a rusty bear trap for a few days is just lazy...and kinda sick.

In the case of fully automatic weapons...that too can be fun. To date I only have experience with replicas and 'gun-like' devices which fire fully automatic, but it's fun to just rip off a nice long burst. I agree that working a bolt action is fun too - I shoot a cheap .22 single shot bolt action rifle whenever I get up to my cottage. As for hunting - Yes, one bullet is ideal, but there's also the issue of making a quick follow up shot if the animal doesn't go down. You don't want to have to chase the thing for miles while it slowly bleeds out...not pleasant for the hunter, and even more unpleasant for the animal...compared to a clean kill. I'd be satisfied with a bolt action, but magazine fed rifle, or a pump action deer gun (rifled slugthrowing shotgun)..the second or so it takes to actualte them should be fast enough. Full automatic for hunting is ludicrous, I agree...it will remain illegal despite the lifting of the assault weapon ban. I guess it comes down to disipline...the people who take an AR-15 and hose a deer down with 15 bullets instead of taking the time and using the skill required to do it right don't deserve their hunting licences. That's one step away from walking around at night stunning deer with a bright light and shooting them up close.

Guns and bombs are a few of my favorite things - but having no desire to use them to threaten, injure, or kill a person makes it essentially a hobby. Well, not even a hobby, since I almost never get to use firearms.

Beastie Boys - Sabotage is one of the best videos ever.

1) Man From Harold Wood 2) Fated 3) Near Fantastica 4) Hello Time Bomb 5) Avalanche 6) Flashdance II

Why does the average citizen need a police scanner? A radar detector? Tesla coil in the garage? Model rockets, art, motorcycles, alcohol, swords, fireworks, those stupid singing fish you hang on the wall, and a thousand other things... Civilians don't technically NEED alot of things. Some people simply have interests, hobbies, etc that involve these things...entertainment value. The difference is that guns are inherently seen as 'bad' by the general public - I'm willing to bet alcohol is responsible (well really the user is resposible, but you get the idea) for alot more deaths than firearms are in North America. Really now...of all the things I mentioned here, how many of them have any PRACTICAL use in most situations? Just the guns. Self defence (sword might work too). Hunting (no, you don't NEED a semi automatic military carbine, but anyone who hunts large game with the 5.56 NATO standard is asking for trouble as it is). You don't NEED to get plastered and play pool, you don't NEED to throw darts, you don't NEED to go to the range and shoot targets, but some people enjoy doing those things. Hobbyists, collectors, competetive shooters, hunters, and people who just feel safer having a powerful weapon to defend their home with (though to be honest, a rifle is a terrible choice for home defence). I have no problem with gun ownership for those reasons. Chances are if the weapon is documented and legally registered to you, you're not planning to commit murder with it. I'm sure it's obvious by my posts that I am not in any way anti-gun (a dying breed, apparently). I see them as a tool and a toy as much as a weapon. With the proper motivation, a shovel will kill you just as dead as an AK-47 - it's all a matter of who owns the gun and what he or she does with it. That said, I also wouldn't be particularly distressed if the ban were reinstated...it really makes little difference to me. I don't live in the United States, and were I to buy a gun, it'd probably be a shotgun anyway. And guess what they used to stop them? M4/CAR-15 patterned assault rifles. If the regular police force had even a few decent weapons lying around that little standoff would have been over in about 5 minutes. What strikes me as odd is that even with scores of police firing hundreds of bullets (granted, they were 9mm pistol bullets), not even one ever managed to hit the entirely UNARMOURED head of either robber.

That's the thing - if you're going to commit a crime with it, are you really worried about how legal it is? It's not that hard to find high capacity drum magazines and the like...the ban only really had any major effect on lawful owners. Anyone why buys a weapon for the specific task of committing crimes can just as easily find the same weapons illegally, ban or no.

Astral Projection - No One Ever Dreams

The issue is also one of some people trying to twist the 'assault weapon' definition to include other weapons. A single shot, bolt action hunting rifle becomes an 'assault weapon' the instant you mount a bayonet on it, though it's little more than a spear. By the way the AR-15, as a civilian weapon, does not have a fully automatic firing mode....as such, "800 rounds per minute" is irrelevant. It's not more dangerous as a weapon than any other semi automatic rifle, it just looks 'scary'. Most states let you own them even under the ban. The only difference with the ban lifted is magazine capacity. I don't expect it to cause problems...hell, look at England - incredibly tough gun laws, and the crime rate is phenominally high in larger cities. Sure, the street cops only carry a club, but there are response teams with sub machine guns waiting to back them up. Guns don't cause crime, though they do augment it in rare situations. I really don't support the ban, but it's also not something i'd have been inclined to fight.

Infected Mushroom - Stretched And it's INCREDIBLE.

etc....Stormtroopers are funny.

Synaesthesia - Dark Core

Hybrid - True to Form (Promo Copy)

MGB - The Rat Who Would Be King (obvious, I know)

Astral Projectioon - Chaos (Bizzare Contact Remix) mmm, new album...

Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution

Boards of Canada - Roygbiv

Depeche Mode were techno? Hmm...gotta download some of that. I voted Kraftwerk simply because they're the only ones I've heard much of. I have ALOT of electronica, some of it is techno...but most is newer than 80s.

1) Weapon (tough) 2) Invasion 1 (no contest) 3) Man of Action (very tough) 4) Strangest One of All 5) Song For The Girl 6) Advertising on Police Cars (no contest)

Perpetuous Dreamer - The Sound Of Goodbye

For $10 per person, I'll attempt to sneak you in under my shirt.

The Prodigy - Hotride

Junior Jack - Da Hype