09-18-2017, 09:31 PM
stanc Wrote::confused: I didn't say the 1934 NFA banned machine guns.
Yes, the 1986 machine gun ban was on new production. But a ban is still a ban.
The 1994 assault weapons ban expired because it had a fixed term. Nothing to do with non-acceptance by gun owners. If it hadn't had an expiration date, it's unlikely it would have been repealed.
And none of what you wrote above negates my point: Gun owners bitched about all those laws, but "the fabric of American society" was not shattered, the laws were accepted, and life went on.
Politics and war are certainly intertwined, but politics is not war.
War is organized violence, death and destruction on a large scale.
Lobbying for, and passing, legislation in Congress ain't any of that.
I would love to continue this but I think we have strayed a little too far from the OP, so I will end it here before I get into more trouble
