Turd__AuthorityUranium ammo what lol? You can buy surplus soviet ammo lol (or used to- thanks Obama. I voted for you).
You can buy fully automatic weapons. They're just super fucking expensive and require some extra legwork due to Federal Firearms Act of 1934 and Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA) in 1986. The FFA also is the reason you gotta pay a stamp for fucking suppressors too, which is retarded. Suppressors are such a misunderstood attachment to a firearm.
If you don't have an FFL, you can only buy automatic firearms manufactured prior to 1986 which are pricey. You also have to pay a tax stamp and fill out more paperwork and wait for it all to be approved but you can do it. Just gotta be rich or really like spending all your cash on guns.
If you have an FFL you can buy and purchase all sorts of weapons not readily available to the general public and there's different levels of FFL (licenses). All of which allow the ATF to search your specifically listed "business" location without cause. There's lots of FFL dealers out there and if you're down for the hassle it's probably worth it, but I'm not all about that search my premises caveat, even if it is just my garage, so I'll probably never have an FFL unless guns get restricted to those with such licenses only.
**This post was edited on May 31st 2022 at 2:26:54am
depleted uranium rounds. I was making a joke. Fairly certain nobody can legally own a 30mm autocannon from an A-10 Warthog lol.
and yes, as I already said, you cant buy automatic weapons unless they were made before 86. I understand fopa.
yeah suppressors/silencers lol.. someone with some pull played too much goldeneye or watched too many movies when they threw that in there. From what I understand, the point behind a silencer is to reduce recoil and make a discharge sound less like a gunshot. It's still loud but the overall sound isn't the same. The first gun I ever shot had one on it... I'm sure the neighbours in the area probably appreciated it since it was a .45 ACP lol.
I definitely understand their benefits to hunters - as they offer some form of hearing protection with the decrease in decibels, and they reduce a ton of recoil. I mean shit, New Zealand effectively banned AR-15's but suppressors/silencers are not illegal and can be purchased without any extra stuff.
I think it's a bit silly that places like California, Illinois, and New York have made them illegal, but I totally understand why - they haven't been able to make any inroads to real gun control that could prevent , so they do anything they can... they've bundled a lot of policies to limit the effective danger of firearms sold in the state and its lead to it being a much safer state than others.
Say what you will about increased regulations in these places, but the firearm death rate in California is FAR less than what you see as a national average and in states with fewer regulations like Texas or Alaska... Californians are far less likely to be involved in a mass shooting than in say, Mississippi or Louisiana which have the highest rates... New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts rank even lower despite their very high population densities... those statistics can absolutely be seen as a win.
Still, it's not enough, and we have to do better... Most of these people who commit mass murders buy their guns legally - some just days before... often it ends up being a murder-suicide with no clear motive... just some miserable fuck going out in a blaze of glory because life sucks.
beyond just the homicide rate... the US suicide rate while using guns is far and away the highest in the world for any country with more people than like.. El Paso, Texas... it affects rural states far more than densely populated states with large cities.
What is it.. Half of the suicides in the USA are done with firearms?... and the number of people who went out impulsively during a moment of despair, legally bought a shotgun and blew their heads off the same day is alarming as fuck. Expanding waiting periods might save lives here too... and even if the number decreases less than as hoped, it's still saving lives, and still worth the inconvenience of waiting a week or whatever to go home with a firearm...
