Lots of good points and history lessons to be learned here...
"I'd rather be tried by twelve than carried by six."
Now what Hitler said is a little scary... because guess what, we've got full gun registration here as well... if you're buying it from a firearms dealer, that is. This still is a step towards complete control.
However, the 'sell secondhand with no registering' does not cover handguns. Only covers shotguns and rifles. You need a permit or purchase license to obtain a handgun. Except for criminals, of course. They don't follow laws and have found all kinds of ways around them.
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For full autos and other fun stuff, you need a Class III Federal Firearms License... not that cheap, and there is a tax on full autos, suppressors, and explosives...
Old relics like HK G3's, FN FAL's, AK-47's, M2 and M3 Carbines, and the other old classic full autos are quite limited in numbers in the legal full auto registry... since it is not legal to import or register them nowadays. Those were 'grandfathered' in. Only new manufacture full autos are somewhat cheap (2000 bucks on up) and Readily available.
They say the full auto ban only made a few people rich... and that's true. A real G3 runs well over 30,000 on the legal full auto market these days. I have no idea what they run on the black market, and I don't think I want to know.
BS gun laws and politics piss me off. #### political correctness. #### the bull#### the gov. feeds us (or attempts to do so, anyways...)
I figure some of those with full autos may in fact not have fallen into the registry... kinda like some Aussies that simply shuffled the gun away somewhere and never spoke of it again.
"The ATF should be a store, not a bureau..."