10-20-2024, 10:03 PM
This post was last modified 10-20-2024, 10:32 PM by FlyingClayDisk.
(10-20-2024, 08:29 PM)pianopraze Wrote: Guns kill people like forks make you fat.
Bigger issue is do governments oppress and kill people after they disarm their citizens?
Great point! I love that!
In fact, I'm stealing it! "Guns kill people like forks make you fat!"...CLASSIC!!
Probably the best analogy I've ever heard in this context! Seriously!.
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(10-20-2024, 07:58 PM)boredhere74 Wrote: You can still own a fully automatic weapon. But like you said must be made before 1986.
Yes, true. Reasonably priced and accessible to many? Absolutely not, but you are correct...if manufactured before 1986, and to a person who has stupid amounts of cash to waste on one, yes, they can be purchased...(with a BATF tax stamp, another couple hundred bucks and about 2 year wait, but yes).
Last time I checked a fully automatic Form 4 M16, in 'fair' condition' was selling for about $19,000 bucks (and that was an 'A2' version too). I'm sure if a person shopped around they might be able to find one cheaper, but $15k to $20k is the rough going rate today.
In any case, yes, you are correct. I merely said they are not available simply because of the astonishing prices.
I can remember seriously contemplating a full auto Armalite AR-18 back in about '81-'82. I want to say it was priced at about $750 bucks (but I didn't have that kind of spending money, so I passed). Huge mistake. The gun shop I used to frequent was even willing to finance it for me, but I was already eating ramen noodles in college at the time and driving a 25 year old truck, so that would have been a mistake. Always liked the early Armalites over the Colt 15's, but the Colts were hard to find due to their being military issue. The Armalite AR-18 was a little longer (and also a bit heavier) than the Colt AR-15 at the time.
