One thing that I did this weekend was to go down to Grants Pass. I went to look up an old Air Force buddy who also owns and enjoys shooting his SKS. While we were there, went down to the Oregon/kali boarder. My SKS is one of the "most evil" of SKS's. I decked it out with a folding stock, it has a bayonet lug (with bayonet but I didn't take it this time) but had a bi-pod attached, three 30rd mags, the fiberglass stock has a pistol grip and it has a flash supressor. My friends SKS is the original model but has a detactable mag. Well, just to "feel" what it's like to be a criminal one second and a law abiding gun owner the next, we parked on the Oregon side, got out, and then took a step into la la land. It was symbolic but it made one think. One second, law abiding citizen, the next second, a felon, the next, a law abiding citizen again. It was almost like stepping across the boarder into another country, not the US. The people looked the same, spoke the same (but with a funny accent :> ), and had plates on their cars that said they were still a part of the US. I felt the same way when I drove from GA to ID. Legal, illegal, legal, illegal, legal (represents the states that honored my CHL and then going into states that did not honor my CHL). Then I get a CHL in Idaho, but drove less then 100 miles away, and all of a sudden, I'm a criminal. Legal one minute, criminal the next. But, I will STILL in the US. But it felt as if I had just moved from my country into canada or something. It makes one think.
Sorry to rant on your post twoblink but I just got to thinking.
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