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The really bad news for the grabbing minions is that the .22LR wall of lead is the only the first and the smallest of the ramparts.

I wish it were all true. The Second Amendment was drawn to keep the government(s) in a proper fear of the people, but time has reversed that equation and so, especially, has technology.

One can see that the ruling class will never lose it's love of disarming their subjects, but we can see that even over the last few years that they do not fear retribution as they once did. Their defenses are formidable and growing exponentially.

I have two pistols - a Ruger 9mm and a Browning Buckmark .22 LR. Used to have a .22 revolver, too, but it became damaged.

Have fired neither in anger and God willing never will, but at the range I can put all 10 .22 rounds through the head of a silhouette target at 30 feet in less time than it takes me to put 3 of the 9mm rounds in the silhouette at all at the same distance.

Now, the Browning is an actual target pistol and the Ruger is a small carry pistol (model LC9), but I guarantee that 10 .22 LR Mini-Mags through an aggressor's head is far more effective than two or three nines hitting him somewhere.

I also own a Mossberg 702 .22 LR semiauto rifle with two 25-round mags. Good luck dodging that.

With adjustable iron sights, not a scope, you can reliably put .22 bullets into the 13 inch diameter black at 200 yards. Just learn how to do it.

I think that's a CCI Stinger on the right in the picture. They are good, though I have come to like the CCI Velocitor better.

While I am somewhat known for my long (since 1968), strange and mystical fascination with the .22WMR, I don't think I've ever met up with anything I couldn't dispatch with a .22LR.

Permit me to plug my favorite: Henry Repeating Arms
http://henryrepeating.com/index.cfm

mushroom, try stopping a pissed off bull.

I used to think that the authorities would not fire upon their own citizens in an effort to usurp their second amendment rights. After see how the National Park Service gladly followed the administration's orders to make life miserable for the people due to the government shutdown, I am not so sure.

Yes, I'm talking lethality not stopping power. I can slaughter a bull with a single round from a .22, but it not a good, humane stopper for a large mammal. I certainly wouldn't want to try it on a Cape Buffalo.

There is a huge difference between

1. having a gun and knowing how to shoot it, and,

2. being willing to shoot it to kill someone.

I firmly believe that the USA has 1. but has lost 2.

Or else there would be an awful lot of dead park rangers right now.

The best urban sniper rifle is a .22WMR. Easily silenced and great scoped.

CBDenver,
Several times I asked a cop on a conservative website if he was told to confiscate weapons from citizens would he do it. He refused to answer the question. Others noticed he refused to answer as well. The police are not on your side. The police are not your friends. If you are not doing anything wrong you have everything to fear.

Kent State?