[Avenger]

"Conventional" ICBMs are also known as ROCKETS and are available on the open market to anyone. So are cruise missiles, also known as UAVs. If you have money, they're both legal and available.

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You didn't answer my question. I didn't ask about the legality (though I suspect there laws that could be applied in the case of an private citizen setting up an SAM battery or ICBM in their backyard), I asked if you thought it was OK for private citizen to own ICBMs, have SAM batteries in their backyard, and cruise missles; legality, commonsense and morality don't always coincide. You apparently have a problem with nukes - what about non-nuclear EMP devices? Could be handy - if you want to get out of a parking ticket just fry all the electronics in the Southeast U.S. thus erasing your parking citation(s). Got heavy penalties due to late/underpaid taxes...no problem. Credit card debt? Gone.

[Spktyr]

It is legal for a citizen to own a non-nuclear ICBM, cruise missile, or unguided SAM battery in the United States, so what's the point of asking if it's "right"? It's legal NOW, and since all of these things have peaceful uses as well as combat applications, it is ethically, morally, and legally OK to own them.

Non-nuclear omnidirectional EMP devices that actually work have not yet been created. That said, even those marginally effective directional ones are legal if you possess an FCC license.

[endthematrix]

"Could be handy - if you want to get out of a parking ticket just fry all the electronics in the Southeast U.S. thus erasing your parking citation(s). Got heavy penalties due to late/underpaid taxes...no problem. Credit card debt? Gone."

That's about a sensible to equate CC permit holders are able to kill or maim those who call their wives fat in a bar. Rocketry and RC modeling is a hobby. EMP, ICBM and SAM batteries? C'mon! (Although there are practical civilian science applications)