[m1-lightning]

I'm pro 2nd amendment, but to a certain degree. If there were no limitations on the 2nd amendment, there wouldn't be much difference between security in Baghdad and security in Washington. Our rights as citizens should not be so free to the extent where our leaders cannot be secure in government buildings from assassins or terrorists.

17-4 PH stainless steel is an alloy undetectable by metal detectors. If the ban were lifted, it would be legal to manufacture firearms with this alloy. This would mean that metal detectors anywhere would be pointless. Even if another country invents it first, this ban would certainly limit the availablity of it here.

Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988

[William Tell]

m1-lightning said: "Our rights as citizens should not be so free to the extent where our leaders cannot be secure in government buildings from assassins or terrorists."

The threat against our "leaders" arises from their usurpation of power that the Constitution never granted them. The limited government that was envisioned by our Founders would attract very little attention from anyone.

If our Founders were alive today and told that the government was taking half of people's earnings, they would be making plans.