Skull Pilot
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Very few on the street in 1986 tooHow many fully automatic rifles were actually in the public's hands in 1986?Thinking that a ban on assault weapons would somehow get them out of the hands of criminals, who by definition don't follow the law, is not common sense, it's lack thereof. The government in question would only be weakening the ability of citizens to defend themselves, while criminals would continue being able to use them. We've already had MANY stupid threads like this.Police around the nation have for years begged for assault weapons like those used in Dallas to be taken off the streets. They're overwhelmed.
If you claim to support the police, why not support them by supporting common sense regulation of these weapons and clips, etc?
Yet when they restricted machine guns in 1986, that pretty much got them off the streets. Why did it work that time?
I've owned guns since I was 16 and have been shooting for over 30 years and never once in the thousands of gun owners I have met did one ever own a fully automatic gun
You are right. Extremely few fully automatic guns on the street now, but it's mot because it would be hard to convert any of those ARs to full auto. If crooks will get what they want no matter what the law says, why don't they have tons of fully auto ARs?
And it's not as easy as you think to convert a semiauto to fully automatic. Most people have neither the skills nor the equipment needed to do so