Coming on the heels of the SCOTUS decision this morning, it kindles the debate on whether citizens should limited in terms of firepower.
I can envision a big D Depression where you’d wish you had an AK-47 for your family’s protection.
I thought the purchase of automatic weapons was legal if you paid that really high license? Or is that only for machine guns not rifles with the full auto?
Although Blackwater's employees are certainly covered by the 2nd Amendment, I think the company itself and it's assets (hardware for war) are empowered and authorized under another part of the US Constitution: The Letter of Marque. This is what allowed the first organized private militias to exist in the form of privately owned warships whose express purpose was to harass the enemies of America on the high seas and allow them to keep any spoils gained by such acts of piracy in the name of patriotism. Blackwater is far more heavily armed than just a dozen AK's stored on behalf of the local sheriff. I'll bet that's what the whole thing was about: Whether or not the sheriff and his boys had adequate storage facilities to house AK's on their own. Possibly whether or not they were adequately trained in their use. That's the primary purpose of BATFE: Paperwork and organized persecution in the name of federal bureaucracy. Blackwater has a fleet of choppers that are armed with mini-guns. They have all the wheeled toys and hardware to make them lethal as the boys who wear our military uniforms.