WHAT? You been asleep for the last 50 years?
When I was born, my father could have purchased for me a fully automatic, silenced weapon, without much fuss, except the unfolding of $100 bills and a little paperwork from the 1938 legislation.
Today? Fergetaboutit.
We've lost LOTS of ground on firearms since '38.
And people here on a conservative website say.... "Protected gun rights fairly well so far".
Bovine excrement.
When we get back to where we were in 1937.... then I'll agree with you, after noting the dark period of the crushing of personal freedoms between the '30s and whenever that joyous days occurs.
/johnny
BTW, the 1938 legislation was largely in response to crimes committed by Bonnie and Clyde.
The irony is that while full auto was available to the public up until that point, the 1938 law would not have prevented Clyde Barrows crimes.
He stole full auto BAR’s from national guard armories.
Spot on johnny.