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The Bugle: Issue XCIV, January 2014
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The Bugle: Issue XCV, February 2014
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The Bugle: Issue XCVI, March 2014
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A source, please
[edit]Hi, Mike. You added this [1] to the AWB 2013 article. Could you provide a source, please? All I see in the AWB summary is "Requiring a background check on all sales or transfers of a grandfathered assault weapon," nothing that supports "firearms would have been non-transferable and could only remain with their current owners until their deaths, at which point they would be forfeited to the government." Was that something that could happen if one didn't transfer a grandfathered weapon before they died? At any rate, can you give a source? I'll continue to comb the law itself. Thanks. Lightbreather (talk) 13:49, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
In S.150 itself, page 13 of this PDF copy, near the bottom, its says:
- 19 ‘‘(49) The term ‘grandfathered semiautomatic as-
- 20 sault weapon’ means any semiautomatic assault weapon
- 21 the importation, possession, sale, or transfer of which
- 22 would be unlawful under section 922(v) but for the excep-
- 23 tion under paragraph (2) of such section.--Lightbreather (talk) 13:58, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
WP:CIVILITY and WP:NPOV, please
[edit]C'mon, Mike. Let's work together. I leave detailed edit summaries, on content, not character, and I press both gun-rights and gun-control arguments. Please stop leaving snarky remarks about me in you edit summaries and instead leave details about the content.
Also, you can't delete a source because you think they're biased. I learned that last year when working on the article for the 1994 assault weapons ban.
Let's work together, citing Wiki policies and guidelines when appropriate, addressing each other's concerns, collaborating, etc. - and leave the personal stuff out of it. Thank. Lightbreather (talk) 15:37, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
halbrook
[edit]You may want to rethink adding that book. Im about to be topic banned and likely site banned by arbcom for including refs to Halbrooks Nazi argument in the Gun Control article. Gaijin42 (talk) 01:44, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
- It's unbelievable Gaijin42. I've stopped editing Wikipedia articles in protest over what they are trying to do to you and others who have behaved very civilly on Wikipedia. If anything, they might have a case against me but you are one of the most level, reasonable editors I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I refuse to just go edit plant articles while powerful capricious forces alienate me from anything political. I wonder if they'll delete the Halbrook article I created and that you improved on Gun Control in the Third Reich.-Justanonymous (talk) 13:58, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Gun politics in the United States
[edit]While I applaud the efforts of Lightbreather and others for trying to clean up and update some of the gun related articles, who ever added that BS intro to the Lead was clearly pushing an agenda. --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 17:07, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue XCVII, April 2014
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3RR notice
[edit]Mike, today you have made a series of individual and consecutive edits that undid my additions to the High-capacity magazine ban article. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Many were additions I made because you peppered the lead with citation-needed tags, including one for the fact that high-capacity magazine is a commonly used term.[10] Although you then proceeded to remove much of what you'd ask for sources on and replaced it with your own preferred, unsourced language.[11]
Please stop. Lightbreather (talk) 23:49, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
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Truce?
[edit]I see you have created a bullet button article. Great - sincerely. However, I made some edits similar to some of those you made on the high-capacity magazine ban article yesterday.
Listen, I hate playing games. The whole series of edits you made were heavy-handed. Some misrepresented the truth.[12] Also, some were personal.[13] Can you please just back-off a little? I salute you for your service (my oldest served in Iraq), and I admire your passion for gun rights, but your editing sometimes leaves articles that lean pro-gun if not patently pro-gun. (Like calling gun laws "draconian" [14] - in Wikipedia's voice.) If I were to use an editorializing term like that, I would at least attribute it to the person who said it. What I write in WP's voice, I write neutrally.
Please, can we call a ceasefire? Lightbreather (talk) 14:54, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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