Oh, terribly sorry. Please link to me the Gadsden Flag requirements for avatar use post haste, good sir! I love its design and its history, that good enough? No? Fine and dandy. I seriously enjoy the juxtaposition of the current flag with the Gadsen, quite artistic and spans much of the history of this great nation.
Yes, I'm on a gun control rampage saying a bump fire stock allowing rate of fire like an automatic without any of the legal procedure and process of an automatic should be banned. Goodness gracious! Slippery slope, right!
Look, you don't have to agree with me, that's fine. But I am seriously appalled at the behavior around here. It's pretty darn old getting accused of being something I'm not - not sure what it is I'm supposed to be, and how I'm not. And that somehow my avatar makes me suspicious. Not to mention implying that I simply MUST want to destroy all the guns to save the US from all the evil.
Relax. I'm not attacking you as a person, but rather the idea for which you're standing here. I did find it interesting that someone with a "Don't Tread on Me" flag is willing to so easily give up freedoms for others, and appeal to the anti-gun crowd. I'm not. I'm sorry if that observation was offensive, but I merely wanted to point out that protecting one's liberty often means standing up for the liberty of others.
But, again, I do feel you're missing the larger point here. Your exact argument can just as easily be applied to all kinds of things that most of us (including probably you) don't want to see banned. So, where do we draw the line? Do we only keep legal the things you want legal, or do we realize that sometimes another person may find a use for an item that we (as individuals) do not?
Since you mentioned it, let's talk about the process of getting a fully automatic weapon. Sure, they're legal, kinda. If you want an automatic weapon you'll have to go through the NFA process, which is really like a glorified NICS check with a $200 fee attached to it. The more important issue is that you'll need to find a registered firearm of this type that was built before 1986, which means a very scarce gun indeed. That fully automatic AR-15/M-16 may be transferable on a $200 tax stamp, but the scarcity of the legally registered gun means that acquiring one will cost you the price of a brand new SUV. I'd happily go through the NFA process to acquire a full auto, if the government hadn't closed the registry and thereby caused a scarcity that makes these items virtually unattainable for anyone except the most serious collector, or wealthy persons.
I wasn't nearly old enough to buy a machine gun in 1986, though I know some people who are now in their 60's who collected quite a few of them back before the government closed the registry. Because of the government-induced artificial scarcity of these items, people like me will never have the chance to own one, even when we're willing to submit to the background check, pay the tax stamp, and follow all of the rules. Seems fair.