The NRA STill Pushes You Can Own Anything & Open Carry It. What About A Rocket Propelled Grenade?.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The NRA is really serious about being able to own any type of military weapon. We need to put the NRA out of business. It is public enemy number one.

[bdamomma]

1. oh geez

If only the NRA should be held as accomplices in all these deaths. Cause you know the Congress will do nothing NRA puts big money in the pockets of those Senators and Reps.

[Hoyt]

2. They are not any different from tobacco companies that pushed lethal items for profit.

Tobacco companies were sued successfully.

[NutmegYankee]

8. Granted the tobacco companies also made/sold the product

The NRA makes nothing except assholes. Lawsuits against them would fail on free speech grounds.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Sadly we have NRA defenders on DU.

[atreides1]

4. Scalia didn't think so!

He wrote that the right to bear arms had limits. “Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”

Scalia, also more generally offered the belief that “like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.” It is “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”

District of Columbia v. Heller

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. You can own one of these that will fire;

But not one of these that will fire;

[Marengo]

13. How many muzzle loading artillery pieces have been used in the commission of crime in the modern...

Era?

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. OH! A test....

Ummmmm.....12?


How the fuck should I know?

[Amishman]

17. you can own the latter as well, some paperwork and a $200 tax stamp

The NRA is just a representative of the hardcore gun loving crowd that composes their membership, my in-laws are several good examples.

There is a reason there are only 5 million NRA members and easily 10x that many gun owners who are not members, the NRA represents the hard core gun crowd. Remove the NRA and they'll form another group just like it next week.

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. Yes you can own one, but can you own one that will fire?

I looked, albeit rather quickly, and all I could find were 105MM's for sale that had been "demilitarized" which I took to mean no firing pin or otherwise inoperable.

[Amishman]

21. yes, you can. Just insanely expensive

see LurksOften's post, he has better information than I

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. Fair enough

[Lurks Often]

19. You can own something like the artillery piece in the second picture

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructive_device

Of course they rarely come on the market, are very expensive and often require heavy duty trucks and trailers to transport them.

[Xolodno]

23. Of course....

...take the First Amendment on religion, if I created a religion that requires to kill someone one in it each year and eat the body, is it protected? Nope. The Amendments are not absolute like the NRA wants you to believe....if they were, then shit, I can acquire a nuke for "protection"...and using right wing thinking...particularly if *I think* the government has become corrupt and oppressive.

[Laffy Kat]

6. Rocket-to-air missile launchers mounted in truck beds?

In case the "gov'mint" tries to spy on you with drones?

Sarcasm, of course, but it wouldn't surprise me.

[hedda_foil]

7. I think there's a strong chance the Koch types may actually want armed riots here.

They've flooded the zone with an insane amount of firearms, and are working hard at making life unliveable c for the same group of blue collar and rural Americans that vote for them. The only rational outcome is horrible carnage, far worse than we have seen til now. It would be the excuse that could prompt a full scale police state. This bunch of Republican super funders hire very smart underlings to develop impossibly successful long-term strategies. This could just be planned. Hopefully I'm way, way off.

[hack89]

9. We drew that line with the Gun Control Act of 1968.

I am surprised you are not familiar with Federal gun control laws.

[LanternWaste]

11. Is your confusion between law and sentiment purposeful or merely an accident?

Is your confusion between law and sentiment purposeful or merely an accident?

I am surprised you are not familiar with the two wholly separate concepts. Part II.

[hack89]

12. I understand strawman arguments like the op

the line has been drawn. No one, including the NRA, is talking about moving it.

[jmowreader]

16. RPGs, antiaircraft guns, machineguns etc. are not regulated by GCA 68

They are Destructive Devices under the National Firearms Act of 1934. The weapon has to be transferred with a $200 tax stamp, AND every round you want to buy for it has to be transferred.

[hack89]

20. The National Firearms Act of 1934 was modified by the GCA 68

to include Destructive Devices. The were not in the original legislation.

[trueblue2007]

10. What about a Harry Potter Wizards Wand?? Just joking on that. I hate guns.

Sorry gun lovers. But i hate em'

i was still up last night when this was on. i went to bed just crying like crazy. could not wake hubby up. he gets up at 4 am to go to work.

it is just horrible. 58 dead and 500 injured,

the worst mass slaughter in America.

[Marengo]

14. Can you cite or link to an official NRA publication, statement, etc that confirms that?