Re: What happens to a dis-armed populace.

703. Popeye
Apr 6 2000, 2:00 am show options

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From: buzcutt...@aol.comMJBBITZ (Popeye) - Find messages by this author
Date: 2000/04/06
Subject: Re: Gun Control (OT) - Marcel says it as it is!
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Kevin inquired:



>One, couldn't it possibly be that the reason that no crimes are committed
>by legally owned full-auto weapons is precisely because there >are


so few and they are so hard to get?

Although expensive (an H&K MP5 machine pistol goes around 4500 bucks, plus
250 for Fed tax), Full auto weapons are easy to get. There are around
100,000
now registered in this country. Basically any sane person with a felony
clean
record can get a permit.


So I don't think that's the reason. Check you local phone book for gun
dealers and if they advertise a "Class III" license then they sell automatic
weapons.



>Two, would you feel comfortable living in a country where anybody could
> >walk



into Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Sears, etc. and buy a fully automatic weapon >by
showing
some form of ID and passing an instant background check?

See my and Jason's posts on shotguns. Any body worried about automatic
weapons watches to much TJ Hooker. They are the very least of your firearms
worries. At .35 cents a round, no one can afford to shoot them.



>While it is probable that this country (USA) would be safer if there were
>no privately owned hand guns,



It would be nice if there were no homeless, you could have sex without
dying
and we could all have a new Suburban, too. And just as likely.


>People should spend more energy trying to treat the symptoms to the gun
>violence problem.



Amen Brother. This wisdom is the only truth.

Popeye
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