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[Atypical Liberal]

32. How gun control punishes legitimate owners:

Describe specifically how real gun control......punishes legitimate owners.

Gosh, one could go on for hours about this, really.

Here's an example:

In 1986 the federal government closed the machine gun registry. This means that no machine guns manufactured after 1986 are "transferable" - they can't be bought and sold to private parties. As a result, the cost of machine guns has skyrocketed. An M16, which in 1986 had a military contract price of about $400, today sells for over $20,000. This means that machine guns are effectively unobtainable to ordinary people. Yes, they are still legal to buy, but they are incredibly expensive. This is an example of how legitimate owners are punished by gun control.

Here's another example:

In 1994 the federal government passed the "Assault Weapons Ban". It really did not ban much, because manufacturers simply made cosmetic changes to assault weapons to make them comply with the letter of the law while being functionally identical to what they were prior to the ban. But you could no longer have, for example, a semi-automatic AK-47 variant with a threaded muzzle, nor provisions to mount a bayonet. Neither of these features had anything to do with crime, but legitimate firearm owners could no longer buy firearms with these features.

Here's another example:

California does not allow assault rifles with a protruding pistol grip. Which means instead of the normal pistol grip found on assault rifles like the AR15 and the AK-47, people have had to install bastardized grips such as these:




The weapon is otherwise completely identical in function as a standard AR15 or AK-47 variant, it simply has a kludged pistol grip to satisfy the letter of the law. This is another example of how gun control penalizes legitimate firearm owners.

I could go on and on but hopefully you get the idea.