Your opinion on full auto firearms

Do you think fully automatic weapons should be regulated?

  • No, anyone should be able to buy whatever they want

    Votes: 181 32.0%
  • Not as much as they are now, available to anyone who can purchase firearms

    Votes: 317 56.0%
  • Yes, available but only with special conditions (training, tax stamp...ect)

    Votes: 43 7.6%
  • Yes, the way it is now

    Votes: 25 4.4%

  • Total voters
    566
  • Poll closed .
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I don't see them as any more of a danger than semiautos or bolts, or single shots, or muzzleloaders. I do agree with b/g checks. I know it doesn't solve the problem of criminals obtaining guns, but I don't think we as a society should make getting guns too easy for them. If b/g checks can make it a little more difficult for many and stop only some, I'm not opposed to that.
 
Like most of us said, I believe that if you are able to buy a firearm that you should be just as able to buy a MG, or any firearm for that matter.
 
A fairly silly an arbitrary thing to regulate with horrible penalties--unless you live in Iraq, and then our gov allows you one up to .30 cal. But not for US citizens.

Here, 10 years in jail?? Probably the source of all zero tollerance. I would want one for fun, really I'd like an auto 10/22--I could AFORD to shoot that!

I have fond memories of shooting the M-60 and SAW (on a range) in the army--the best part was the "free" ammo.
 
I really think that the cost of ammo alone would be a limiting factor in the number of owners. I know personally that I could never afford to shoot anything other than a .22 full auto on a regular basis. Maybe 300 rounds of .223 twice a year, but nothing like Knob Creek.
 
It would be really nice if newly manufactured items could be transferrable to the general public.

I'm currently looking at a F/A tube gun. Price is around $10K. Here's the part that really bites: An identical gun, built as a "dealer sample", costs all of $800 bucks. The only difference, one was registered prior to 1986.
 
Anyone who can buy a firearm should be able to purchase an automatic firearm.

FYI, They are fun to shoot but a 30 round mag goes very quickly. I actually enjoy more the semi-auto versions or 3 round burst capability Auto's.
 
I am for strict regulation of the use of firearms of all kinds

Anyone who through intentional or negligent misuse of a firearm causes harm they should be charged with the crime suitable to the damage caused by the misuse

Come to think of it I am for the strict regulation of the use of all tools,,sporting equipment, motor vehicles, swimming pools. neckties and so on
 
Ideally, all and I mean ALL firearms and related purchases should be openly sold to anyone who has a drivers license showing his / her age as legal to buy and that has an endorsement on said license from the LOCAL law enforcement boss in his home area stating he is not a felon or crazy. Get a law on the books that says that every chief law enforcement officer in every city and county or state MUST issue such a permit stamp on request of any adult who is neither a felon nor insane. Take the feds completely out of it, close that stupid tent flap and kick the damn camel in the snout.
 
and that has an endorsement on said license from the LOCAL law enforcement boss in his home area stating he is not a felon or crazy
Why on earth would you make the exercise of one of the most basic civil rights contigent on the whim of some local politician?

Would you apply the same rule to, say voting, and let your local Sheriff or Police Chief decide if you could or could not cast a ballot?

Would you let him decide if you could or could not have a lawyer if you were arrested? Or a trial before being sent to prison?
 
As it stands, virtually anyone who can purchase a Title I firearms (regular rifle, pistol, or shotgun) can buy a Title II Firearm (MG, SBR, SBS, AOW, DD); unless state or local law precludes such. And, in 2007, the $200 tax stamp is no where near the intrusion it was in 1934 bacuse of inflation and increased salaries. The biggest hurdle is the village idiot (CLEO) signoff (not a cop bashing comment:)). , however that can easily be avoided in most states with either LLC, Corporation, or even an intervivos trust (those all file under the corporation or business entity option).

Your last two options are virtually the same.

As a general rule, I believe that anyone should be able to acquire and enjoy all the Title II firearms they desire. My only issue is that the idiots you see on youtube with semi's mihgt think that f/a could make some Darwinistic videos. Hopefully dealers and collectors would have enough sense to not sell to those who are imature.

What would need to be rolled back is 922(o), which has casued the superinflation of machine gun values.
 
People who follow the law, follow the law, with single-shot or machineguns. Conversely, those who do not, never do, and so laws do not effect them.
 
We should ban dangerous fully-automatic assault weapons like these!:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TBQrtzSdVDo



















Hahaha! We can already bump-fire, what's the point in banning full-autos? :evil:
And it's from the hip, too, which is much less effective, but infinitely more evil-looking, so it must be banned!
 
my jefe will sign off on a short-barreled suppressed minigun with a grenade launcher if i want one.
that sounds awesome, but I'm not really sure I want to know what you plan on doing witht that. wink, wink, extreme tactical squirrel hunting.
 
I don't think they should be regulated.
And who wouldn't want to go armadillo hunting with a rpk?
 
Yeah, remove all restrictions on automatic weapons. The ammo companies would love you. In many ways.
 
nice- looks like i vote with the majority, i find that a sensible answer

ultimately if they can come and get us with it, we should have it too

one of my buddies also is big on the point that your door can be "kicked" in with a tiny shotgun,
but we can't have one, so i'd add all banned weapons to my vote, if you can have a gun, you can have any gun
 
I can buy a full auto in the state I live in now. I have to jump through some hoops, buy a tax stamp, etc...yeah so what, it's only $200 and a wait. My problem is with the artificial inflation of fully automatic guns, since none can be imported or produced that didn't already exist here prior to 1986 (I think). $16,000.00 for an M16, that really doesn't have any reason to cost more than every other AR15 out there?
 
Hits are what count. Aimed fire is a lot scarier than sideways gangsta spray and pray. I'd love to be able to get FA stuff, cans, shorties, without the hoops and .gov artificially high prices. They'll hand a full auto M16 to an 18 year old kid who's never shot a gun in his life but won't trust a squeaky clean middle aged citizen who's been shooting his whole life with one unless he gets a fat bank account and will subject himself to the BOHICA gov red tape.
 
I have yet to see any evidende that fully-automatic firearms pose a greater threat to society than, say, .38 spl. revolvers. In fact, the revolver is probably more threatening, because it is smaller (read: easier to conceal), easier to use, and it leaves behind less evidence (no spent cases thrown out).
 
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The regulations now are just fine. I do not think they should be easy to get. And yes i think you should have to jump thru hoops to get one.
To much possiblity of misuse.
We all know that its the person not the gun that does the wrong doing but in reality a full auto firearm is pushing it.
My 30 round mag AR-15 is one of my favorite firearms too.

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