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RoyGBiv wrote:

Heartland Patriot wrote:I would love to practice rapid fire...I would love to practice double-taps...I would love to practice drawing and firing...but I have nowhere to practice any of that, other that dry fire, which isn't the same.

You can rent a private lane at Shoot Smart.
They are adding more private lanes, I believe 5? more are currently under construction.

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Rex B wrote:This is news to me:

from AP: "The gunman's semiautomatic assault rifle jammed during the attack, forcing him to switch to another gun with less firepower, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press. That malfunction and weapons switch might have saved some lives.

Oates said a 100-round ammunition drum was found in the theater, but he said he didn't know whether it jammed or emptied."

Kythas wrote:

Rex B wrote:This is news to me:

from AP: "The gunman's semiautomatic assault rifle jammed during the attack, forcing him to switch to another gun with less firepower, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press. That malfunction and weapons switch might have saved some lives.

Oates said a 100-round ammunition drum was found in the theater, but he said he didn't know whether it jammed or emptied."

I heard that, also. If true, it's a good thing he didn't know how to clear a jam.

Rex B wrote:

Kythas wrote:

Rex B wrote:This is news to me:

from AP: "The gunman's semiautomatic assault rifle jammed during the attack, forcing him to switch to another gun with less firepower, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press. That malfunction and weapons switch might have saved some lives.

Oates said a 100-round ammunition drum was found in the theater, but he said he didn't know whether it jammed or emptied."

I heard that, also. If true, it's a good thing he didn't know how to clear a jam.

Good thing he did not read all the reviews on those drum magazines for AR15s

C-dub wrote:I saw some of the footage of him in court today on the news. Either is nuts or the stress and gravity of what he's done and what he's facing is coming down on him.

Scott in Houston wrote:Interesting article from a Navy Seal on surviving (or never being at) these types of attacks...

http://sofrep.com/9657/navy-seal-lesson ... o-survive/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

74novaman wrote:

philip964 wrote:
What if the right to, buy, own and possess a gun was restricted to those men who are at least 25, unless they received a yearly clean bill of mental health from a licensed psychiatrist. And it would be illegal to sell a gun to a male unless they were 25 or possessed a clean bill of mental health card from a licensed psychiatrist.

I was out of town at a friend's wedding and didn't see this little gem, so I apologize for bringing it up from 3 or 4 pages back.

On a personal level: I am a 25 year old male and have had my CHL for 3 years.

Just to turn this around a bit, I think everyone over the age of 70 should be required to pass a vision test and a practical driving test with a licensed DPS official every year before they're allowed to obtain a drivers license.

But seriously: The idea is completely foolish.

1)Some psychiatrists are firmly anti gun and would abuse their ability to deny people their 2nd amendment rights.

2) Anyone who possesses even a modicum of intellect can defeat the sillly basic spectrum of questions they ask. You don't say that anything makes you angry, or resentful, or that you often imagine yourself as the omnipotent king of the cheese people on moon base 3.

As to the idea of "getting out in front of this" and providing alternatives:

I don't care who is telling me more gun control is the solution, whether they're a gun owner or not. An alternative proposal to further restrict our freedoms from somone nominally on "our side" is worse than a suggestion from the Brady Campaign.

To end before I get on a huge rant about the subject....No. Just no.

philip964 wrote:http://www.click2houston.com/news/Colo- ... index.html

Channel 2 in Houston, weighs in on Assault Rifles. Good deer in headlights photo of James Holmes at the end of the story.

Yes insanity will be his defense, as he is really crazy.

At least one gun range owner figured that out before hand, or he would have learned how to clear a jam.

During science camp at a community college in San Diego six years ago, Holmes focused on temporal illusion, a distortion in perception that he described as “an illusion that allows you to change the past,” according to a video of a presentation released yesterday by ABC News.

The Butterfly Effect (movie Sci-Fi 2004)
He finds he has the ability to travel back in time to inhabit his former self and change the present.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Last year, Holmes was one of a half-dozen students admitted to the neuroscience graduate program on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, which focuses on the workings of the brain with an emphasis “on processing of information, behavior, learning and memory,” according to a statement from the school.
‘Significant Contributions’

Holmes, along with five other students, had his research funded by a National Institutes of Health grant aimed at training “outstanding neuroscientists and academicians who will make significant contributions to neurobiology,” the school said.

Holmes was paid a stipend of $26,000 a year under the grant