Posted on 03/18/2013 5:40:07 AM PDT by marktwain
Defense Distributed has now obtained its Federal Firearms License for manufacturing.
Cody Wilsons has said in an arstechnica article, that he will wait for the add on license that allows for manufacture of fully auto firearms before selling some of the guns - or at least receivers - that Defense Distributed prints.
Link to arstechnica article
I have a question that some FR will be able to answer.
The cost of an class 3 is not high, which allows you to purchase a full-auto weapon under our current idiotic laws.
Now here is the question. Why are full-auto guns so hard to come by and expensive? I’m of the understanding that no new full-autos are allowed, yet I see new full autos out there.
Why can’t I purchase a brand new full auto weapon for the same price as a select fire weapon? Is the manufacturer forced to pay a high fee on each weapon?
The average citizen can’t buy a full auto unless it was made and registered by the cutoff date in 1986. Permanently fixed supply plus large and increasing demand equals high prices.
Certain types of FFLs can make or buy newer full autos for resale to police and the military. I think the loophole is that if a dealer gets a request from a police department to demonstrate a certain full auto, the dealer can keep it after the demo. But he can’t sell it to anyone except the government or another licensed dealer.
I call it a number of things. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.
The citizen disarmament law.
The picking winners and losers law.
The law of government intentions.
How to win the war of citizens vs government. Government wins!
I could go on, but why bother. In 1934, too many gangsters were being shot by the Thompson submachine gun, so government or their lackeys in congress decided to pass the NFA the national firearms act of 1934 to stop this terrible tragedy of losing gangsters to automatic fire. In 1986 Congress put the final stamp on nixing full auto for citizens by eliminating all recievers manufactured after 1986, thus limiting the supply available as explained already in this thread and causing the prices to skyrocket and the rocket has yet to reach it’s zenith.
Worst of all the citizenry inherited a disadvantage to every swinging government agency given a free ride on the auto band wagon. A pox on their house and may the noise of it’s fall be heard around the world.
Now all he has to do is pay for the Class 02 SOT and the ITAR registration with State Dept and he’s in business.
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