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.
My great grandpa once bought a Thompson machine gun and had it shipped to him by US Mail. This was before they assaulted the 2nd amendment :-/
My grandpa eventually sold it for a good bit of cash...because it was legally transferable with a 200 dollar fee... he said he wished his dad had bought a dozen of them.
I think he also had an old BAR, it may still be in a storage shed somewhere on his property.
My father really liked his Thomson and his BAR he had in Korea.
He wondered how he carried that M1 up and down all that terrain.
“I think he also had an old BAR, it may still be in a storage shed somewhere on his property.”
If you send me the location I’ll help you find it. :)
“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”.
Loose lips sink ships.