[Ex gun maker.]

Cruze screwed up.
Machine guns are NOT “Functionally Illegal”!
There are a LOT of them in TX.

They ARE ridiculously expensive and time consuming to buy thanks to the artificial scarcity created by the UNCONSTITUTIONAL (What part of “Shall not be infringed” do you not understand?) NFA-34 $200.00 tax and UNCONSTITUTIONAL ban on new manufacture for CIVILIAN ownership “Amended” to the FOPA signed be R. Reagan.
BATF deliberately drags out the process to discourage purchase, often to a year or more.

Of course our Fed. masters and LE are exempt from these restrictions.

Not only do I NOT support ANY new “Law” regarding firearms, I’m still intent on seeing the “Brady” BS repealed.

Note my tagline!

[Bob434]

We’ve seen how ‘good faith negotiations’ have failed now with 30,000+ gun laws that the left insisted that we needed- and the republicans went right along with it- slowly allowing our INALIENABLE RIGHTS to be eroded one law at a time- 30,000+ times now!

When is enough enough? The left just keep demanding more and more gun control laws- and the right just keep agreeing to more and more constitution violating laws-

[Cobra64]

He may have been referring to a law dating back to 1934 requiring stamps, etc.

[dangus]

“FUNCTIONALLY illegal.”

As in, so difficult to acquire as to make them generally unavailable to the general public.

[taxcontrol]

Agree with your assessment but to Sen Cruz’s point, in addition to the federal controls regarding machine guns, states can and some do, ban private ownership of machine guns.

[lepton]

Machine guns are NOT “Functionally Illegal”!
There are a LOT of them in TX.

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The rigmarole of getting the stamp is pretty limiting. “Functionally illegal” seems a close-enough approximation given the debate parameters. They’re also not part of the actual debate, since there are only a couple of examples of legally owned usage in murders over the past half-century. As I recall, they were all by government employees.