In Ferguson - Guess Who Gets Arrested?

[AtheistCrusader]

173. Modern weapons aren't really more deadly.

They have incrementally improved over time in accuracy, and cyclic rate. It's actually a rather nice parallel to the incitement to murder/hate via gradually improving reach and frequency with improvements to the printing press.

The comment about the Girandoni Repeating Rifle was to illustrate that the framers actually did know about what would become highly advanced high cyclic rate firearm technology.


If I might suggest a course of action, since it's not that modern firearms 'are more deadly' per se, but rather capacity and cyclic rate has semi-auto weapons challenging fully-automatic weapons in utility, repeal the Hughes Amendment. Reopen the NFA registry. Extend the registry down to include all semi-auto firearms. You get:

1. Full background checks, including fingerprints at state and federal databases.
2. Registration. (NFA weapons are registered, everything else isn't.)
3. Registration going forward for private sales. You cannot privately transfer a NFA weapon.
4. A 200$ tax stamp for each weapon, which can fund tracking, registering, checking, etc.
5. The right to inspect the owner's gun at any time to ensure they still have it. BATFE can 'check up' on NFA collections.

Gun owners get: new fully automatic weapons if they want.

Give-take. I'd register mine.