• California authorities found a man illegally owning 248 guns and 1 million rounds of ammo.
  • The state attorney general said he also had 3,000 magazines and several grenades in his home.
  • The guns included 11 machine guns, 133 handguns, and 60 assault rifles, authorities said.
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        9 months ago

        No, you didn’t. Machine guns aren’t legal to own unless you have a very expensive permit which basically grants the ATF an unlimited warrant to perform a search for it.

        Also, this article is about the US, so making that distinction isn’t necessary.

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          9 months ago

          Replacing one or two parts to make a weapon automatic is easy. The article doesn’t clarify what a “machine gun” is or what make or model. Buy a few AR15s, replace the parts. Machine gun. And illegal. Fitting the article’s definition.

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      9 months ago

      It really isn’t difficult to buy illegal weapons

      Maybe it should be.

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          9 months ago

          I was thinking more like we prevent kids from having recess, so their brains don’t develop and they’re easier to control.

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          9 months ago

          That might help reduce the flow of American guns from coming into Canada.

          Most of the weapons crossing the US/Mexico boarder are going southbound.

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            9 months ago

            Cartels smuggle a fuck ton of weapons, especially automatics, into the US.

            They don’t really have to smuggle them southbound because the US straight up gives them guns to destabilize countries we have financial interests in.