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August 05, 2015 11:39 AM UTC
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Now first of all, we don’t know anything about this proposal one way or the other–we’ve seen no news reports about it, and there’s nothing we can find even in media outlets in other cities discussing the possibility of limiting storage of ammunition in a residential structure to 10,000 rounds.
Don't forget our constitutional right to own and deploy nuclear weapons. Limiting citizens to no more than 50 megatons is outrageous. I'd write more but there is a leak in my nerve gas storage unit and I need to go…
Holy shit, I swallowed my gum laughing at the hilarious casualness of the final sentence.
I know it sounds outrageous, but the gun-grabbers will stop at nothing to limit your ability to protect yourself and your family from what would have to be an invasion by a foreign power to require more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in your damn home.
Oh, and I'll preempt Bowman…
Typical citizen soldier storing more than 10,000 rounds at home
Ha! At least the lazy sumbitch finally got up off grandma's couch.
It is watermelon season and the low-performing gourds are getting nervous about morons like this headed east for the big kill. Perhaps they'll get clemency this year while the boys are fighting the evil libruls in Denver.
The only thing Dudley missed in his hysteria was invoking the name of Jesus. I mean, seriously, HMRWJS?
I suspect the fire department is thinking in terms of protecting their firefighters and the neighborhood from incidents such as these (one Google search was all I needed):
Erie Garage Fire Causes Ammunition To Explode « CBS …
denver.cbslocal.com/…/erie-garage-fire–causes–ammunition-t…
KCNC‑TV
Jun 8, 2013 – A garage fire destroyed a home and a car in Erie early Saturday morning. … CBS Denver … Erie Garage Fire Causes Ammunition To Explode.
Ammunition « CBS Denver
denver.cbslocal.com/tag/ammunition/
KCNC‑TV
Erie Garage Fire Causes Ammunition To Explode. A garage fire destroyed …Denver Business Journal Investigates Ammunition Shortage. Some gun owners are …
Exploding ammunition signals fire in garage of Burlington …
wqad.com/…/exploding–ammunition-signals-fire-in-garage-…
WQAD‑TV
Feb 10, 2015 – Exploding ammunition signals fire in garage of Burlington-area …Galesburg teen killed in crash with school bus · Photo from CBS Denver … Knox County homeowner awoken by CO detector discovers fire caused by meth lab.
Ammo ignited in Denver garage fire – The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com › … › Columnists › Jim Spencer
The Denver Post
Jan 10, 2010 – … Maserati set off a fire and an ammunition explosion in the garage of a Denver … early this afternoon as they investigated the cause of the fire.
Well, I'm not allowed to keep propane gas canisters above a certain size on the deck of my condo. Wouldn't surprise me (and would make perfect sense) if they were considering a limit on the number of rounds one can store.
I would agree that Denver Fire isn't worried about an ammunition store magically exploding or burning down a block (pretty unlikely). Rather they're concerned about a fire heating up an ammunition store to the point of "cooking off" the bullets and creating a projectile danger that would make fighting a fire even more dangerous than it already is.
Of course, what does the Denver Fire Department know about reducing risks? It's not as if they do this for a living. 😉
Ammunition does not pose a major fire hazard. This is pure gun control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c
So's not allowing you to go the mall with a shoulder mounted missile launcher. That's why weapons possession has always involved controls.
It's not a fire hazard, but it is a firefighting hazard. Ammunition doesn't have the same directed force when it is out in the open (vs being chambered in a gun barrel), but the powder still explodes, and shrapnel (both from the casing and the bullet) still goes flying. Injuries can occur to firefighters. Firefighters prefer to let ammunition stores cook off rather than approaching them to fight the fire – and that means delays in fighting fires, with possible negative consequences for fire control.
That's probably not a big thing in the country, but in a dense city environment, it could be the difference between saving and losing surrounding structures.
Maybe Phoenix, but what about those suburbs fetched right up against the edges of national forests or in the middle of grasslands? It seems to me that the types of people most likely to want to store an arsenal in their garage are also the sort who want to live in the new suburbs that are being built way out to hell and gone.
You mean this pure gun-control restriction that no one's actually proposed . . . ??!!??
The Militia Movement poses a fire hazard, Moddy. And Dudley Brown is the face of Colorado's Militia Movement.
Target shooting, especially with "exploding targets" starts an appreciable percentage of wildfires in the arid West.
It is a fundraising attempt. RMGO and its national lobbying affiliate, National Association for Gun Rights, make millions capitalizing on the paranoia of gun and ammo buyers, and the greed and cynicism of the manufacturers.
Although they will be glad to wax schmarmy about firefighters and police being local heroes, and will ask the public to support these heroes against the "enemy" (Muslims, unemployed black and Latino youth, Mexican immigrants), in reality, RMGO does not support the safety and well-being of firefighters and police. The real threat to our "local heroes" is a paranoid RMGO member with more than 10,000 rounds of ammo in storage next door.
It's always a fundraising attempt with RMGO. Either that, or it's another ploy to increase ammo and gun sales.
Bingo!!! Ammo stocks are way up since the last buy-them-now-before-Obama-Pelosi-Bloomberg-take-them-all-away scare pushed sales and prices off the charts. Most Ammosexuals have more rounds than they can shoot watermelons in their lifetimes with, and sales are down and prices falling accordingly. Dudley Brown is simply trying to give his corporate sponsors a boost by bullying his minions into a two-lifetime supply.
So you heard Dudley, Modster! Empty your 401K and stock up on several thousand more rounds — it's an investment in freedom, or something …
What you libs again fail to understand, because you're always trying to think about things, is that Dudley makes perfect sense. Line your Julesburg
besement mancavesurvival shelter with a few thousand cases of ammo, and you'll have enough lead shielding to survive that Iranian nucular missile. . .. . . but wait, that's not all, after you and your mommy survive Persiangeddon, in maybe only 15 or 20 years, the two of you can crawl out from that cozy basement hidey-hole and have years of good, clean, christian entertainment shooting watermelons, and the stray surviving democrat!!! Buy now, afor it's tooooo late!!!!
Called the Denver Fire Department about this over a week ago. I was told that the ordinance is not new, but has been in the fire code for a number of years, and that the it is based on international fire code. I was also told that the problem is the gunpowder in the bullets creates a fire danger. People who make their own ammunition are also limited in the amount of gunpowder they can have on hand….fire code.
This scare was a organization (and eventually fund-raising) building scheme by Dudley do-wrong and his compadres.
Can we all agree that the gun rights movement and the militia movement are more and more, one in the same?
The gun rights crowd is getting more and more radical by the day.
And Dudley Brown and his colleagues at RMGO and Gun Owners of America are driving this radicalization.
Up the limit to 50,000 rounds. RMGO will still oppose it, but will sound even a bit more ridiculous and Denver can still have the 99.9% most generous limit in North America because the 10,000 limit is part of the Uniform Fire Code adopted as a matter of course in almost every local government jurisdiction with code enforcement authority.
Anyone who feels the need to store over 10000 rounds of ammunition in their house is extremely unstable on so many levels and needs to have their guns taken away!