Posted: 2/3/2006 1:45:32 PM EDT
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Looks like Dick might be an AR15.com member: Dick Cheney is a proud gun owner and hunter. In April the Vice President addressed the NRA to wild cheers and acknowledged his own interest in guns. But a source close to the White House tells NewsMax that Dick Cheney is a true gun aficionado. Cheney's collection, our sources say, is in the hundreds of guns, including pistols, shotguns and machine guns -- from antique Thompsons to the most modern European automatic machine guns. To let off some steam (God knows he has some to let off these days), the Vice President has been known to go out to the federal training center in Maryland where the Secret Service does its own gun practice. A typical Cheney visit, told to us by a person who attended one, included the Vice President bringing some 30 guns from his own collection. On the ranger, Cheney would blow away his targets -- with Thompson machine guns, the latest German and Austrian machine guns, Lugars, MP5s, shot guns, you name it. One after another an aide would hand the Vice President his latest armament, and Cheney would fire away, no doubt imagining al-Qaeda terrorists in his gun sights. We're told Cheney is a good shot to boot. Cheney is not shy about his shooting activities. Another Cheney friend tells us that at the Cheneys' Christmas party last year he showcased to guests a video of himself shooting while hunting. |
A reference to his speech at the NRA Annual Convention, which was IMHO excellent.  Very pro-gun. I don't know about his personal collection as mentioned above, but it sure wouldn't surprise me... |
Too bad we can't get the most modern European automatic machine guns.  I guess being connected has it's rewards. |
Given how much money he has, I suspect that he has an FFL and gets "Dealer Samples" or something like that. I doubt that a guy with that many enemies would try to pull a schenanigan on something like this. |
I'm gonna guess the bonehead reporter that wrote the article is just mistaken. Connected or not, you can't get past the GCA of 68. |
Maybe he's an SOT provider for the Secret Squirrels. "Agent, rustle me up a dealer sample request for a G-36. And make it snappy!" |
Well, given that we have had an allegedly conservative majority and an allegedly conservative president for five years now, we should be talking about the ban in the past tense. If they were really conservative, of course. |
It's a sad day in America if the Vice President doesn't have enough clout to get around a law like that. |
Just for clarity. BTW - I agree
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Because he is the Vice President of the United States of America. That makes him the second most powerful person in the world. If a person in that position can't have some special priviledges then we have become something that I don't like. Remember seeing the picture of JFK with the M-16 while he was out in his boat? You think he jumped through all the hoops to get it? I don't think so, but I have been wrong before. |
All the more reason it is truly disheartening for there to be nothing done to curb the abuses, and rein in the revenuers by someone who SHOULD know better, and is in a position to fix the problems. |
More than Jorge would (and Cheney couldn't do squat if he wanted to). Aside from casting tie breaking votes and going to funerals, what power does the VP have anyhow? He can advise the Pres, but he can't make law or executive decisions like the Pres can. |
the only hoop back then was a $200 tax, which for a kennedy is like pocket lint the pres and vp getting around laws just because they can stinks a little too much of monarchy for my tastes |
BS. The reason the constitution was written was to prevent the people in power from having any special priviledges over the people. If he wants to shoot SS weapons on the SS range, or do the same with the Marines or something, I'll grant him that as a perk of the job. But private ownership and importation of stuff that I can't have? Fuck that noise. |
Well then. It looks like we have a difference of opinion here, doesn't it. |
Wow......I wish I had a "Lugar" or a "shot gun". 
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