Assuming potus knows the real definition of assault rifle, he could really scam these people. Any weapon with a fully automatic capability
“Assuming potus knows the real definition of assault rifle, he could really scam these people. Any weapon with a fully automatic capability”
WRT full auto firearms, I find it unconscionable that those we hire - the police and the standing armed forces - are able to purchase and possess these arms, but they are effectively prohibited to the average citizen. First, of course, the 1934 NFA requires that an application process be passed and that a $200 tax be paid for the privilege (not right, mind you - no one has to get permission to exercise a RIGHT) of being able to purchase and own one of these. Then the 1986 FOPA made cut off the supply of new full autos to the civilian market COMPLETELY, which had the very predictable (and intended) result of causing the price of the existing stock of full autos to skyrocket. Now it is prohibitively expensive to be armed as well as our hired servants...a concept that is surely adding to the rotational velocity of the Founding Generation in their graves. This unconstitutional farce MUST be reversed - at least to the point of getting rid of the 1986 prohibition on new full autos. Ironically, the federal government argued in the 1939 “U.S. v. Miller” case that the 1934 NFA was constitutional because it was a measure designed to increase tax revenues (by way of the $200 tax stamp), but the 1986 law PROHIBITS the raising of more such revenue. The “logic” of that one is enough to spin the heads of the world’s greatest philosophers and legal minds.