Reply #58: Umm...the NRA supports restrictions on all of the above...

[benEzra]

I sense a bit of a misconception here...

All of the above are VERY strictly controlled under current law by the National Firearms Act of 1934, and no one is trying to change that. The NFA restricts all automatic or burst-mode weapons, sound-suppressed weapons, firearms over .50 caliber (with exceptions for some larger-caliber sporting guns, like .729 caliber shotguns), disguised firearms (cell phone guns, cane guns), smoothbore handguns, guns easily convertible to full-auto, etc. etc. etc. Current law also bans Kevlar-piercing ammunition, guns that cannot be detected by X-ray or metal detectors, and requires background checks on every purchase from a gun dealer. Criminals and the mentally incompetent are prohibited by law from so much as touching a gun or a single round of ammunition, and every gun sold in this country is tracked via FFL's and point-of-sale BATFE Form 4473's to ensure they can be traced. The NRA supports all of that, and helped write a good bit of it.

What gun owners and the NRA support is preserving the right of the law-abiding, who can pass a background check, to own NON-automatic civilian firearms under .51 caliber that meet the minimum length requirements and other criteria of the NFA. And shotguns. That's what the anti-gun lobby is currently trying to take away.

This issue has nothing to do with machine guns, RPG's, or nuclear weapons...