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Originally Posted by rstevens62
But the same principle still applies, yes, the people were using single shot muskets, but larger guns were available, even 10 ton cannons (which private citizens could own btw if they could afford to).
The soldiers and civilians were using the same type of firearms...it would be no different today, military troops use full automatic weapons when they are out on patrol or fighting in a battle, why should civilians not be able to own the same kind?
Theres not many reasons why a nations govt would desire to limit what kind of weapons their civilians can have!! There is usually a good reason for it when it does happen (history tells the tale over and over again).
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The 1938GCA restricted full auto but did not prohibit it it per se. If we as a citizen have a need or desire or both for full auto we have to pay an exorbitant fee, and the government gets to crawl all over up with a microscope every year and we will be part of a central title 3 registry.
Oh but test assured the criminals, gangscartel footdoldiers what have you follow all this and are thereby denied access to full auto capable arms.
Very very little if any violent crime involving firearms is or has ever been prevented by any gun law restricting firearms citizens access to guns.
That being said I dont have so much heartburn with the current BC system as I have seen it stop convicted felons from getting a weapon from a dealer. I used to help a buddy in his gun shop.
Thing is we denied the sale and we also reported attempts as parole violations to the PD and SO. But not ONCE did LE follow up. In one particular case this ended badly.
A guy we both knew full well was not even supposed to walk into a gun store for any reason tried to buy a gun one day. We ran the BC knowing full well he would be denied as he was a two time loser already on drugs weapons and domestic violence.
We immediately reported the attempt to both look al PD and the SO. They did nothing. And the creep got an illegal gun off the street that turned out to be a stolen gun from one of his I'm sure many...acquaintances.
He then tried to murder his ex girlfriend with it. If LE had done their job that would not have happened. He would have been back in prison for an egregious parole violation.
It was a serious black eye for local LE. I guess my buddy and I should have made a citizen arrest when the creep came in the shop. But that would be vigilante action.
Thankfully he was not successful in his murder attempt but he should not have even been given the opportunity to try. LE should have gotten our report and immediately tracked him down. And it's not like this guy was hard to find. It's not a big town. Hell my buddy and I knew well where he lived and his known associates. The local tweaker crowd.
No excuse for this and we upright law abiding gun owners get blamed for crap like that. The grabbers want to see us punished for the actions of flea bags even as we bend over backwards trying to keep them under control.
The current BC system does work. It works pretty well. But if LE drops the ball it doesn't matter how well it works at a licensed selling point. These rabid ban happy confiscation crazy gun owner haters are truly clueless.
Their hatred and bigotry against all gun owners blinds them to the truth of things. They are no better than any other hate group. Not one bit.
My whole life in the firearms owning and using population has brought me into interaction with the very best quality of people on the planet. Folks who would give those in need the shirt off their backs and even lay down their very lives to defend people they dont know from Adam needs be.
People who truly care about their communities and watch out for the decent people in them. But instead of respect and thanks we see derision, stereotyping, some of the nastiest labels and name calling imaginable, and strident calls for our rights to be taken.
We are labeled by these neo Democrat nuts as backward, ignorant, uneducated, unintelligent, racist, abusive, violent, misogynistic, (though women make up a huge part of our community) and all sorts of other nasty monikers.
Personally I'm plumb fed up to the gills with all this lunatic leftist dung slinging. I proudly stand shoulder to shoulder with all the men and women like me out here that make up the 2A community.
The latter are the very best quality of people one can ever hope to know and I dearly love them one and all. I know in no uncertain terms that I can count on them to be right there for me in time of need and they in turn can count on me n mine to have their backs no matter how bad things may get.
The hateful and grossly bigoted nutcase leftists wish they could say the same about their segment of society.
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