That's an easy one. Even before I was an FFL who could appreciate the other half of FOPA protections, I was still glad it passed.
A ban on machine guns was coming one way or another regardless, most likely would have just been another provision of the '94 VCCLA. If you don't recall, gun rights were in a bad way in the late 80s and early 90s, and the antis had the votes to ram through anything they could sell as "reasonable" to a general population that was much less 2A cognizant & friendly. Firearm homicides were far, far higher than they are today, and regardless of the actual reasons, gun control was a pretty easy sell at the time.
Besides, though fun on occasion, machine guns are really rather useless. We have several post samples, and they pretty much only come out to test cans or maybe entertain a customer. When you're paying for the ammo that's being turned into noise, the novelty wears off real fast. I can build whatever I want, whenever I want, yet I only have the ones I need to legitimately test and call my cans "full auto rated". I'd rather consume ammo more slowly and have a relaxed time hitting what I'm aiming at with suppressed bolt and lever guns than dump $20 worth of ammo in under 2 seconds.
