Allegedly*, according to guys I worked with at my last job, they can be had for as low as $50 at gun shows in Indiana, I'm guessing from people who bought them en masse and had to sort out the war-worn ones.
Pump actions are illegal there? Crazy. The sound of a pump action shotgun being racked in itself is almost as good of a deterrent to crime than the gun itself. If you heard your doorknob to your city apartment rattling at 2AM, and whoever it is on the outside heard that "ch-chhh" sound of the shotgun being 'pumped', they'd piss their pants and turn around.I wish pump action would be legal in Austria for shotguns (they are on the same schedule as full autos...), even with ejector this quite hurts aftert some 100 rounds
Also, what does .22lr in the US cost? Remington 100 pack (the "gold" plated ones) are ~12EUR here - Shotgun ammo is incredible cheap though. (25 pack 00 ~10EUR)
Agreed.
In America:
In fact, violent crimes in America have been on a steady decline over the past couple decades. Gun ownership has been on an increase, however. Violent people are violent with or without guns.
In America:
Number of deaths for leading causes of death
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
- Heart disease: 597,689
- Cancer: 574,743
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 138,080
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476
- Accidents (unintentional injuries): 120,859
- Alzheimer's disease: 83,494
- Diabetes: 69,071
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476
- Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097
- Intentional self-harm (suicide): 38,364
I suppose some of those suicides are certainly with guns, though if you're depressed enough to put a barrel of a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger you'd be depressed enough to just swallow a bottle of pills or keep your car running in a closed space or dive off a tall building or something.
In fact, violent crimes in America have been on a steady decline over the past couple decades. Gun ownership has been on an increase, however. Violent people are violent with or without guns.
It could be worse.
And hunting, well, people are always going to hunt. I'd much rather shoot and kill a deer that's lived a good life in the woods, frolicking around, watching the sun rise and sun set and all that jazz than some animal that was raised in a factory farm, pumped full of chemicals and steroids to make it grow in a confined, lightless space.
@MannDude I'm loving your AR! I shoot with my right eye, the camera on my google glass is ~inch right of my right eye so it just makes it look weird.
Killing is part of the grand recycling plan. If you didn't kill something, you would starve my friend. Take it from a veghead.
One thing is killing for food, to feed yourself and family. Another is killing for "sport".
I agree that killing for 'sport' is a bit whack. I don't want to kill a deer just to leave it's body behind in the field so I can hang it's head on my wall. But at the same time, I'd rather kill a turkey in the wild and eat it as opposed to buying turkey from the store.
