BULLDOG
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What possible reason would anyone have to do that? It didn't take an amendment to get fully automatic weapons off the street.
That's funny! I can buy a fully automatic weapon at any number of gun stores in my local area. You are an idiot of the highest caliber!
You have now reached the credibility point of an idiot who argues that the world is flat. While there is a rout for an average person to own a fully automatic weapon, they are no where near as accessible as other types of guns. I'll leave you to your silly babbling now.
You said it was impossible or words to that effect. Failure!
Please point to the post where I said impossible, or words to that effect.
You said, "What possible reason would anyone have to do that? It didn't take an amendment to get fully automatic weapons off the street.."
That is not totally accurate.
Fully automatic weapons were cheap and available mail order after WWI, with Thompson machineguns going for less than $30, but almost no one wanted them. The only reason they became a problem was Prohibition, which caused large amounts of unprotected cash and turf wars. The problem was not Thompson machineguns, but that Prohibition of Alcohol was illegal and irrational.
While we then did pass laws to make machineguns more difficult to buy legally, they are still cheap and easy to obtain illegally, and the laws never had anything at all to do with their small number on the street. The reality is they are hard to conceal, so are almost never used in crime.
So your claim that laws succeeded with fully automatic weapons is just wrong.
And even more important is the fact that federal gun laws are also inherently illegal.
While people accepted them due to the bad media coverage of things like the St. Valentines day massacre, the reality is that no federal weapons law has ever been legal, they were never a good idea, and they never improved anything.
So in general your claim was wrong, that more federal laws helped in the past.
That is not accurate that federal laws helped, nor are things better now.
Weapons are supposed to be under state and local jurisdiction only.
It would be like the EU suddenly made strict gun laws in Europe, totally violating the sovereignty of countries like Switzerland that do not have strict gun laws.
4 quick takeaways from your post.
1. Asking for a possible reason is not the same as saying something is impossible. You are either just that dumb, or are tying to misdirect what was said.
2 You think a fully auto M16 is not as widespread in it's use by civilians as an ar15 because it is harder to conceal, even though they are basically the same gun, and indistinguishable from each other at a few feet.
3. You think all federal gun laws are unconstitutional. That's just ridiculous.
4. You're just another raving gun nut who will say anything, no matter how absurd, to defend your gun fetish.
