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MChristopherson

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    Comment #23460911

    I agree, and should have expanded my "not a direct comparison" more clearly to expand on the more nuanced situation. But, I mean my point kind of at the more general level that the…

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    Comment #23460491

    "Many retailers reserve some of their best shelves paces for their private label products" A key difference is that in those situations (a grocery store, for example), the marketpl…

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    Comment #22153931

    Thanks for the correction! Fixed.

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    Comment #22153831

    That is an important point that struck home with me when I came to realize just how minuscule the amount of carbon dioxide is in the air relative to other gases: it's nigh-on a rou…

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    Comment #5769918

    I agree that an honest debate on the topic is what can lead to a reasonable and valuable process of dealing with the issue in terms of law. And it's because of that that the term "…

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    Comment #5769877

    Was genuinely curious. The term kind of took over in the last couple decades, but I've come to realize that it's a very vague term, with not a lot of actual agreement as to what it…

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    Comment #5768122

    Hunting rifles with magazines are quite common. However, you do zero in on the effective difference between supposed "assault rifles" and semi-automatic hunting rifles: the magazin…

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    Comment #5768094

    He did not build an AK. He built a copy of the defanged, non-fully-autmatic, "for gun enthusiasts" version of the gun. He did not build a fully automatic machine gun. He built some…

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    Comment #5768083

    Note as well that, as far as I can tell, he did not build an AK-47. He built a copy of the semi-automatic version that is available to gun enthusiasts. He did not build what your a…

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    Comment #5768073

    How do you personally define "assault rifle" ?

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    Comment #5767963

    I scanned through the video included in the link. At the risk of sounding like a militia-bound gun nut, the video got me a bit annoyed: "fully functional AK-47" is tossed about rat…