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Scruffy1

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6. It's complicated.

Reply to Karadeniz (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:42 PM

Mar 2019

Cuurently it is legal to own a machine gunand transfer them with the appropiate licensing. They are very carefully controlled and have to be made before 1986 IIRC. As far as bumpstocks are concerned you can do close to the same thing with a rubber band. It's a small move to ban bump stocks bu I think all repeating weapons would be a good start on eleminating our gun problem. The only real answer is getting rid of guns and that is not going to happen anytime soon.

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Bump stocks, which allow rifles to mimic automatic weapons, are now illegal to own, buy or sell [View all] DonViejo Mar 2019 OP

We had one mass shooting with bump stocks IronLionZion Mar 2019 #1

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Maxheader Mar 2019 #2

The only good thing Trump has done jmowreader Mar 2019 #3

So if creating the effect of an automatic weapon is illegal, why also isn't the automatic Karadeniz Mar 2019 #4

Automatic weapons are legal, with proper checks and license (tax? stamp?) JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2019 #5

It's complicated. Scruffy1 Mar 2019 #6

Thank you, Donald Trump RussBLib Mar 2019 #7

This and no wars Polybius Mar 2019 #8