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More Forgotten Weapons:
« on: March 04, 2015, 06:04:20 PM »
Prototype BSA pistol in .45 ACP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA2nRg4T2PI
Very attractive handgun. Looks a bit like the Remington 51. Shame it didn't leave the prototype stage.
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Re: More Forgotten Weapons:
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2015, 03:46:46 AM »
He did call the firing pin ejector the extractor--forgivable and easy to do.

Looked like a slick design, but reducing the weight on a .45 ACP handgun may be counterproductive.

<grin> Probably quit working on it when they realized they'd have to pay royalties on the trigger mechanism if sold out of GB.

« Last Edit: March 05, 2015, 04:11:06 AM by 230RN »
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Re: More Forgotten Weapons:
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2015, 11:37:20 AM »
He did call the firing pin ejector the extractor--forgivable and easy to do.

Looked like a slick design, but reducing the weight on a .45 ACP handgun may be counterproductive.

<grin> Probably quit working on it when they realized they'd have to pay royalties on the trigger mechanism if sold out of GB.


They also got some more gun control laws in 1920, IIRC, which must've decreased their domestic market for handguns.
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Re: More Forgotten Weapons:
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2015, 05:18:20 PM »
Laws, laws, laws.  I still think we should have to repeal two laws in order to get one passed.
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Re: More Forgotten Weapons:
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2015, 10:50:09 AM »
Laws, laws, laws.  I still think we should have to repeal two laws in order to get one passed.

Nah; I just think each one should expire after ten years unless it's read aloud in full during session and renewed by both the House and Senate.

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Re: More Forgotten Weapons:
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2015, 05:58:33 PM »
^ Make that five years and a legislative session not to exceed two days.  That way they'll be so busy re-passing old good laws that they won't have time to pass new lousy ones.

Also, there should be no "Committees" and powerful Committee Chairpersons advancing their own agendas.  Each proposed law should be presented to the whole body and read aloud in total before votes are taken, and with an accompanying recitation (aloud) of the relevant clauses of the Constitution --just to refresh their memories.

That ought to gum up the works enough, right there.

Gridlock is a good thing sometimes.

I could go on with more Terrified suggestions, like no passing of the buck on Regulatory Authority.  You want your Regulatory Agency to have a form to fill out by the citizenry, put its format into the law directly.

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Re: More Forgotten Weapons:
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2015, 06:06:56 PM »
Make that five years and a legislative session not to exceed two days.  That way they'll be so busy re-passing old good laws that they won't have time to pass new lousy ones.

I want to give them time to *try* to read aloud some of the crap they've passed.

I'd also want to see all "rules" that have effective force of law handled in the same manner.

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Re: More Forgotten Weapons:
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2015, 06:16:05 PM »
^Dang, I'm having trouble navigating through Preview and Post panes.

I added just about exactly that before I read your post.

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« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2015, 07:00:54 PM »
Nah, two readings, ten days apart. 

First Reading, in total to the entire body.

Second Reading, in total to the entire body, then voted upon.

All laws automatically expire after 7 years.

Existing laws have to be read in their entirety the same as above. 

Each Representative/Senator can only present one bill (new or existing law) each year.  So max number of bills is 535.  Each Rep/Senator can only introduce 2 resolutions per year (so 1070 of those).  Resolutions cannot have any money involved.  Yes, you can rename the PO in Bugtussle after some local worthy, all good and well, but it can't cost the Taxpayers dime one.   

If you read the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers the Founders did NOT want efficiency in Congress.  They wanted to make sure it took a long time and great deal of consensus to get anything passed. 
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