Machineguntony
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I was at the store cradling my MP5 (still in waiting period), when it dawned on me that the gun I was fawning over is a 30 year old gun.
I then realized that I will never own a UMP, Glock 18, MP7, m240, or a SAW. One day, the M60s, MP5s, and M16s of the world will be as antiquated as the Gatling guns, M1s, BARs, etc. Civilian legal machine guns will never advance in technology.
Eventually, one day, all the guns that are so cool to us now, will be antiques, nothing more than collectible items. I look at a Tommy Gun, and while I don't deny that they're good guns, they're just before my generation, so I have no desire to buy one, no personal attachment to their history or image. The same will happen one day to the M16s, when the military phases out the M16, and the last of the our generation, who used the M16 in the military passes away.
Some day, even if two or three hundred years from now, there will be a last generation to own these wonderful machines. The Hughes Amendment really screwed us over.
BTW, that's why anyone who is true friend of the Second Amendment, will be happy to give up the value of their NFA machine gun collection, if it meant reversal of the Hughes Amendment.
Any thoughts?
I then realized that I will never own a UMP, Glock 18, MP7, m240, or a SAW. One day, the M60s, MP5s, and M16s of the world will be as antiquated as the Gatling guns, M1s, BARs, etc. Civilian legal machine guns will never advance in technology.
Eventually, one day, all the guns that are so cool to us now, will be antiques, nothing more than collectible items. I look at a Tommy Gun, and while I don't deny that they're good guns, they're just before my generation, so I have no desire to buy one, no personal attachment to their history or image. The same will happen one day to the M16s, when the military phases out the M16, and the last of the our generation, who used the M16 in the military passes away.
Some day, even if two or three hundred years from now, there will be a last generation to own these wonderful machines. The Hughes Amendment really screwed us over.
BTW, that's why anyone who is true friend of the Second Amendment, will be happy to give up the value of their NFA machine gun collection, if it meant reversal of the Hughes Amendment.
Any thoughts?