“Members of the public should be able to freely purchase select-fire weapons such as this....it’s what the 2nd amendment was meant for.”
Eh, a $200 tax stamp isn’t much of an impediment after almost 100 years of inflation. It does make it harder for the wrong elements to easily get them - do we really need Antifa armed with fully automatic weapons?
All that said, full auto is vastly overrated anyhow. The armed forces may be able to afford and supply the vast quantities of ammo required, but in almost all situations semi-auto, aimed fire is far more effective. Three rounds a second of aimed fire easily beats twenty rounds a second of “spray and pray”.
$200 tax means nothing now that it’s illegal to own one made after 1986.
Prices of old used transferrable MGs are >20x what new would be if not for 922(o).
Someone named “PreciousLiberty” should have a little more concern for the right to keep and bear arms ...
What part of “shall not be infringed” do you find difficult to understand?