Originally Posted by rcompart

That being said, a full-auto weapon should not be available for purchase by any individual that at that immediate moment expresses a want for such weapon. If you want to go through the extensive background check and wait the period of time it takes for them to identify you as someone that isn't buying this on a whim or with malice intent, and you've proven that you're not a liability if given the permit to posses and use sch weapon, then I think you have every right to go out and buy one, purchase ammunition for it and go out and shoot it in a lawful manner. If you go outside the bounds of this, you forfeit that.

Originally Posted by rcompart

Once again I ask you, why do you feel you should be any different than me and be able buy a full-auto weapon, use a device like this, etc, without going through all the prescribed requirements to do so legally that I did? I don't think the government should be able to tell you or I that we cannot own any weapon but I think there should be restrictions on obtaining them. You can't make it too easy and at the same time impossible. You just need to make sure that the steps taken by both you and the government are pertaining to the best interest of the public. This means that if you have never done anything to harm anyone, haven't committed a felony, and have been deemed psychologically fit to posses a weapon, nothing should further impede that. I think that should blanket every firearm as well. If you want to buy a shotgun, you get a permit for a shotgun, if you want to get a permit full-auto, you get a permit for that. If you've never owned a gun prior, you don't just go out and get a full-auto permit, just the same as you don't start driving at age 16 and get a CDL the same day. I don't want to go off as sounding Orwellian but I think every firearm should be registered to a person the same that a vehicle is. Your car is titled and you must have a license to operate said car. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.