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Ah gun laws. A big reason for me to love Alabama. It's a love-hate relationship, very complicated. For instance, I can't buy a lottery ticket here. Yet, I just came home from the gun shop where I popped in on a whim after work today. An hour later I walked out with a brand new 6.5mm Creedmoor rifle with a real nice piece of glass mounted on top and wrapped in a new gun bag. Complete impulse purchase.

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Be careful -- that gun will start shooting people all by itself, for no reason, all of a sudden!

What's with the lottery thing? Kind of surprising.

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Tennessee does a bang up business selling lottery tickets to Alabamans. Gas stations just across the border have picnic tables set up so they can sit down and scratch them off.

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But how do the guys from Bama know which side to scratch?

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And that’s particularly remarkable given the Creedmoor is a single shot! The libs will start warning about “automatic muskets.”

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George Washington wished his musket could reach out to 1000 yards! Definitely would have changed things up a bit

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Yeah, lottery. It's funny you know, they can dream up, author, debate, pass, and have a gas tax hike become law over the course of Spring Break when no one is paying attention, but in the 12 years I've lived here they haven't been able to figure out the language to put a lottery on a ballot measure. Total corruption.

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Yeah, so in my blue state, you take a class to qualify to own a gun, you then file paperwork to be approved to buy one, you then file an application to buy one, you then buy it, and then you wait 7 days to pick it up. Only one every 30 days. Law was thrown out by federal appeals court panel -- that pesky 2A! -- so naturally the state appeals to the full court next. Meanwhile, guns crimes by, well, crooks continue to mount.

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Maryland.

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