to all that own machineguns

too many choices!? · January 12, 2005, 09:37 AM

If the '86 ban on new registration was overturned would you mind taking a loss on your collection in order to be able to make and register new machineguns? I am almost sure I know the answer for most of u, prove me right.

Yeah your mp5 goes down in value but you can now have a transferable g11 if you can afford it and the ammo

. What do you think?

MeekAndMild · January 12, 2005, 07:38 PM

Don't know that there would be a loss. Big foreign trade deficits mean bad inflation.

Benton · January 12, 2005, 08:33 PM

I can't imagine that any shooter-collector would be anything but pleased to see an increased availability and decrease prices for any type of firearms. Someone fretting about the drop in their property's value to the point where it takes precedence over greater opportunities for ownership for themselves and others cannot be properly considered an enthusiast of firearms for study, shooting, and sport. Those people are just managing a portfolio of assets that might as well be financial stocks or widgets.

I'd gladly see my Uzi drop to $100 if new automatics could be imported and manufactured for sale to regular people.

Hkmp5sd · January 12, 2005, 10:33 PM

I'd be overjoyed for the overall value of my toys to drop by $30,000 if I could pick up a Glock 18 and a P90.

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new automatics could be imported

Killing the '86 ban wouldn't change that. That comes from the '68 GCA. Would have to wait until they made them in the US.

Benton · January 12, 2005, 11:47 PM

Hkmp5sd,

You are correct about the effect of the 1968 GCA. Perhaps I was taking the initiating post's reference to the possibility of owning G11s as permission to range freely into the realm of fantasy. With that little constrait, however, I suppose we might as well dream of the overturn of the 1934 NFA. Too bad that law didn't have a 10 year sunset clause in it - maybe WWII would have produced a new mood in the Congress regarding the benefits of armed citizenry since we were sending weapons to British Home Guard and dropping STEns and Liberator pistols to the French resistance. Just an alternate universe speculation.

too many choices!? · January 13, 2005, 11:01 AM

My idea was that if the '86 ban was repealed then IF you could make one from plans(

) and make ammo(

) you could apply to register one(

). That is why the original post says ,"to make and register", but looking back the way it is written is a little vague. So no you could not import one for yourself but you could make one. I don't believe the '68 ban can even be talked about being repealed until something happened with the '86 ban on registration though. Oh yeah, same thing with the p90. If you(or a domestic manufacturer) could build it its all good.

As a gesture of good faith with the government we all agree not to race to be the first on the block with a quad .50 in the front yard/on the roof/on the bass boat/flat bed truck

!!!!!

kt007006 · January 14, 2005, 09:10 PM

it would take an act of God for that to happen. but all i've got is a m-11 so i wouldn't take a big hit. but if i did who cares. i'd sell my car and get about a $30,000 dollar loan and have the time of my life. that is one of the dumbest bans besides the assault weapon ban to date, in my opinion.

January 12, 2005, 09:37 AM	#1
too many choices!? Senior Member Join Date: December 19, 2004 Posts: 371	to all that own machineguns If the '86 ban on new registration was overturned would you mind taking a loss on your collection in order to be able to make and register new machineguns? I am almost sure I know the answer for most of u, prove me right. Yeah your mp5 goes down in value but you can now have a transferable g11 if you can afford it and the ammo . What do you think? Last edited by too many choices!?; January 12, 2005 at 09:44 PM. Reason: u know

January 12, 2005, 07:38 PM	#2
MeekAndMild Senior Member Join Date: August 2, 2001 Posts: 4,988	Don't know that there would be a loss. Big foreign trade deficits mean bad inflation. __________________ In a few years when the dust finally clears and people start counting their change there is a pretty good chance that President Obama may become known as The Great Absquatulator. You heard it first here on TFL.

January 13, 2005, 11:01 AM	#6
too many choices!? Senior Member Join Date: December 19, 2004 Posts: 371	Not Fantasy! My idea was that if the '86 ban was repealed then IF you could make one from plans( ) and make ammo( ) you could apply to register one( ). That is why the original post says ,"to make and register", but looking back the way it is written is a little vague. So no you could not import one for yourself but you could make one. I don't believe the '68 ban can even be talked about being repealed until something happened with the '86 ban on registration though. Oh yeah, same thing with the p90. If you(or a domestic manufacturer) could build it its all good. As a gesture of good faith with the government we all agree not to race to be the first on the block with a quad .50 in the front yard/on the roof/on the bass boat/flat bed truck !!!!!

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January 12, 2005, 08:33 PM	#3
Benton Member Join Date: June 3, 2000 Location: South Carolina Posts: 81	I can't imagine that any shooter-collector would be anything but pleased to see an increased availability and decrease prices for any type of firearms. Someone fretting about the drop in their property's value to the point where it takes precedence over greater opportunities for ownership for themselves and others cannot be properly considered an enthusiast of firearms for study, shooting, and sport. Those people are just managing a portfolio of assets that might as well be financial stocks or widgets. I'd gladly see my Uzi drop to $100 if new automatics could be imported and manufactured for sale to regular people.

January 12, 2005, 11:47 PM	#5
Benton Member Join Date: June 3, 2000 Location: South Carolina Posts: 81	Hkmp5sd, You are correct about the effect of the 1968 GCA. Perhaps I was taking the initiating post's reference to the possibility of owning G11s as permission to range freely into the realm of fantasy. With that little constrait, however, I suppose we might as well dream of the overturn of the 1934 NFA. Too bad that law didn't have a 10 year sunset clause in it - maybe WWII would have produced a new mood in the Congress regarding the benefits of armed citizenry since we were sending weapons to British Home Guard and dropping STEns and Liberator pistols to the French resistance. Just an alternate universe speculation.

January 14, 2005, 09:10 PM	#7
kt007006 Junior Member Join Date: January 14, 2005 Posts: 3	it would take an act of God for that to happen. but all i've got is a m-11 so i wouldn't take a big hit. but if i did who cares. i'd sell my car and get about a $30,000 dollar loan and have the time of my life. that is one of the dumbest bans besides the assault weapon ban to date, in my opinion.