01-29-2017, 05:42 PM
GSPHunter Wrote:Reading an article regarding experimental aircraft regulations in "sport Aviation" this morning got me thinking.....Rolling back regulations that may be needed to keep stupid things from happening isn't always a good thing....Just imagine what the press would do when some a**hole shots down an airliner using a M2.....I'd be happy if suppressors and SBR's got delisted as well as an end to the 1986 ban on new full auto manufacture. The last thing we need is to get so much rope that we hang ourselves.
You bring up an interesting point of view, which would be similar to if the maximum speed limit is 85 miles an hour, cars should not be made to go faster than that. There are a number of M2s in the civilian marketplace, and we have not seen this incident occur to date. The last person murdered with a legal machinegun was in 1936 by an Oklahoma policeman. There have been a number of murders since then with an automatic weapon -- but an illegal one. Today with the CAD/CAM software and CNC machines we have, making of illegal weapons is not a problem. When someone commits an illegal act with a weapon, THAT person needs to be severely punished, we do not need to have rights taken away to prevent that ACT.