Actually, I believe you probably can own one today, except that you'd have to have a special collectors license from the BATFags, and you would not be able to drive it around on public roads, etc.
Which is my point to ROLF...it's not as simple as "any gun, anywhere, anytime because self-defense is a God Given Right."
When you start applying the term "reasonable regulation" to a right, then everything gets confusing. However, the alternative is a 300 million person urban anarchy.
Why should there be “reasonable regulation” regarding the Second Amendment at all? Look at Britain and Australia, Washington, DC, Chicago and NYC. Gun bans don’t work.
If the Second Amendment isn’t considered as an absolute God-given right, then it’s subject to all of the regulation legislators at every level can throw at it.
you are making the common disconnect between C amendments that flow to people and definition via amendment which define what classes of “people” are legally entitled to certain constitutional rights at all.
Certain classes are excluded from enjoyment of certain rights afforded to others, i.e, felons - and that is a lifelong term - have no collective, class, or individual right to claim certain other civil rights such as voting or even owning a gun or living next to children.
They may not be deprived of certain rights pertaining to criminal rights such as due process and it's pertinent appendages.
Principles of Constitutional Law 201.
An armed society is a polite society.