If you go on the White House's site there's a petition to repeal the unconstitutional High's amendment and the NFA all together. It needs 100,000 signatures before the 19th of February. I've already signed and I'm asking you guys to sign too. Here's the petitions. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/repeal-1986-hughes-amendment https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/repeal-nfa As a side note I would like reasons why these laws should remain on the books.
What you mean is that you would like good, meaningful, logically sound reasons to be presented, rather than hyperbole and emotionally-charged drivel that is devoid of even the most basic critical thinking skills.
But then the thread won't be any fun. Whenever anti gunners use reason and logic the thread goes quiet.
How often are NFA weapons used in crime compared to less restricted firearms? Do you even care about that?
Apples and oranges. Kitchen knives are inherently less deadly. Everyone who signed that petition should be ashamed of themselves.
Yet rifles of all types are used to murder about 250 people a year, and "assault weapons" are used to murder, on average, about 12 people in mass murders per year. Knives kill about 1500 people per year. You're simply wrong. Again so wrong.
Firearms regulated by the national firearms act include shotguns that have had the barrels cut down to less than eighteen inches in length, with an overall length of less than twenty six inches. Both are modifications easily done at home with little more than a hacksaw and file, and completely undetectable until they are utilized in a violent crime. - - - Updated - - - Why do police officers shoot suspects who are wielding knives, if knives are less deadly than firearms? For what purpose?
Only one legally-owned machinegun has ever been used to commit murder, and that was by a police officer. What point do you think this makes?
It's good that you recognize that a strictly regulated type of gun is rarely used in crime. You have no justification at all for "fixing" something that isn't broke.
As a signer of the petition, I am not ashamed of signing it. There is not going to be a rash of deaths from this. It's just an anti-gun myth.
Oh look... another fallacious post hoc argument. Further proof that the anti-gun side could not argue with fallacious appeals to emotion, ignorance and/or dishonestly, they'd be silent.
Prove that they were a major problem before they were restricted. Tell me how an AR15 with a 10 inch barrel is more dangerous than a 16 inch.
Another one of your strawmen. That's what your whole debating style is based on - distorting other people's arguments so you can claim victory. And you still haven't provided justification for trying to fix something that isn't broke.
