> well prepared militia needs [machine guns]
Right, and they don’t have them, even with bump stocks.
When Congress passed the NFA of 1934, they didn’t ban ACTUAL machine guns. The law required a background check, and the payment of a $200.00 transfer tax on weapons like, a World War I belt fed, tripod mounted German 1908 Maxim machine gun or a Thompson sub machine gun. Neither type of weapon was banned outright.
Flash forward to 2018, and we are confronted with a ban on a piece of ABS plastic, previously ruled as NOT a MG by the very same agency that is now declaring that it is.
All those concerned about arbitrary and capricious regulation by government agencies might want to consider this hysteria carefully.