Another school shooting

[michigancat]

it's really difficult to set up a gun factory in your garage compared to a growhouse or meth operation. It's also far easier to smuggle a pound of drugs than a pound of guns, for a variety of reasons.

this is what i was asking about earlier

I've been ignoring your posts since you started arguing with puni. I'll go look for the post in question.

[puniraptor]

uff da!

[star seed 7]

I remember seeing a vice or something similar about kids that handmake a few hundred handguns a week in their third world hut for some third world warlord

[mocat]

uff da!

at least he knew it was not just one of us arguing with himself!

[michigancat]

it's really difficult to set up a gun factory in your garage compared to a growhouse or meth operation. It's also far easier to smuggle a pound of drugs than a pound of guns, for a variety of reasons.

this is what i was asking about earlier

I've been ignoring your posts since you started arguing with puni. I'll go look for the post in question.

I found the post, I don't think you're naive

[wetwillie]

I think it is just our new reality, I don't see a near term change in gun control.

[MakeItRain]

Well, yeah. We've proven there's no atrocity committed with a gun that will make politicians act in our best interests.

[Stevesie60]

So there's obviously a spectrum from minor weapons to extreme weapons. Even the most crazy ass right-wingers would say no one should be allowed to have nuclear weapons. Great, we've established that. 98% of people would probably agree no citizen should be allowed to own a rocket launcher. Why would anyone ever need a gatling gun, or machine gun of any sort? Shooting ranges? Great. If these assholes really won't budge on this, why not set up something where they have to be kept at a shooting range? You have to have two keys, just like a safety deposit box, so an employee wouldn't be able to take it out when they are there by themself. I'm not sure why we couldn't do this for all automatic guns. Is there any reason an average civilian would ever need an automatic gun?

I'm not sure how many times an automatic weapon has been used in these instances. But we shouldn't have to wait for one to happen. These things are only going to get worse going forward.

[star seed 7]

I don't think automatic guns are legal already bud

[Institutional Control]

I don't think automatic guns are legal already bud

semi-automatic are legal, fully automatic are not.

[Stevesie60]

As of 2012 they were. When did that change?

[star seed 7]

Apparently Stevesie60 is one of those nuts that thinks we need to relax gun laws 

[star seed 7]

Automatic weapons have been illegal for like decades

[Stevesie60]

A 2012 article from the LA Times:

"WASHINGTON -- In an answer to a question during Tuesday night’s presidential debate about assault weapons, Mitt Romney said, “we of course don't want to have automatic weapons, and that's already illegal in this country to have automatic weapons.”

Fully automatic weapons -- guns that fire continuously when the trigger is held down -- are legal to possess in the United States but are tightly regulated.

The National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Hughes Amendment in 1986 have all placed limits on how automatic guns can be bought and sold, but did not make it illegal to possess them entirely."

[puniraptor]

Automatic weapons have been illegal for like decades

not according to mocat, you just need to register and buy an expensive permit and tax stamp

[steve dave]

that little girl killed the crap out of that gun range guy with an automatic weapon iirc

[star seed 7]

Automatic weapons have been illegal for like decades

not according to mocat, you just need to register and buy an expensive permit and tax stamp

 "like"

[Stevesie60]

that little girl killed the crap out of that gun range guy with an automatic weapon iirc

Yeah, that's why I assumed they were legal. Well, that and the article I posted.

[Tobias]

Automatic weapons have been illegal for like decades

not according to mocat, you just need to register and buy an expensive permit and tax stamp

 "like"

pos rep

[star seed 7]

Automatic weapons have been illegal for like decades

not according to mocat, you just need to register and buy an expensive permit and tax stamp

 "like"

pos rep

Taparep

[Mrs. Gooch]

I don't have time to read the whole thing but...

Machine guns that were lawfully possessed prior to May 19, 1986 may continue to be possessed and transferred provided they are registered in accordance with requirements of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (“NFA”).

http://smartgunlaws.org/federal-law-on-machine-guns-automatic-firearms/

[star seed 7]

Handguns should be illegal.

[mocat]

how can you dudes pat yourselves on the back about the automatic weapons post, when you have just been found to be completely wrong? 

[puniraptor]

how can you dudes pat yourselves on the back about the automatic weapons post, when you have just been found to be completely wrong? 

technically wrong

[Tobias]

he is enraged