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Gun Control & RKBA

beevul

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5. I don't think it was intended to be security theater.

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 29, 2015, 02:59 AM

Oct 2015

I think it was only explained as if it were intended to be.

I doubt very much that the people coming up with this shit were unaware of the potential effects that they'd otherwise characterize as 'unintentional'.

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