[jaydubya2]

"I hate it when my local gang hangs out on the corner with 5 foot long rifles. That's because they are so concealable, and very quick to be brought to bear."
and affordable too. Those fifty cals are a dime a dozen. No wonder their the criminals weapon of choice.

[lentulusgracchus]

Those fifty cals are a dime a dozen. No wonder their the criminals weapon of choice.

They're about $ 7,000 each from your local FFL.

OTOH, drug dealers can probably afford them more easily than you or I, just as, ironically, Frank Nitti's boys could easily have afforded the $200 transfer tax on their Thompsons, proving that the Sullivan Act was mostly eyewash, and no substantial bar to gunsels' possession of submachineguns.

The real squeeze on criminals is their loss of civil rights, that felonizes their possession of firearms.