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In reply to the discussion: Adam Lanza Shot Victims at Close Range with Semi-Automatic Rifle [View all]HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)39. The sale of the kits is also tightly regulated.
And it does take a high level of machinist skills to install them and make the gun function reliably. The penalty to doing the conversion for a non-permitted owner is so high, gunsmiths wouldn't take the chance. Loss of license, big fine, and jail time.
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No repeal, just a SCOTUS that interprets "a well regulated militia" properly. Duh.
xtraxritical
Dec 2012
#67
Do you think the founders envisioned 20 six and seven year-olds being slaughtered
PA Democrat
Dec 2012
#101
No, you don't really want a prohibition on ALL firearms in the United States.
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#98
Someone posted a video of a bushmaster with a slide stock that turned it into a fully automatic
RC
Dec 2012
#8
I will admit that self-defence against a bear is one time I can see multiple rounds are needed
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2012
#109
These "hunting" rifles are easily and often "converted" into fully automatic
99th_Monkey
Dec 2012
#12
IHOP in Carson City NV * Sept 2011 * 5 dead, 14 wounded using semi-auto converted to fully auto
99th_Monkey
Dec 2012
#104
You are furthering a meme that these conversions are widely available.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#110
again, this is almost identical in form and function to what I carried in Iraq. It is an assault
pasto76
Dec 2012
#15
how can we see bodies under my system when it hasn't even been considered or implimented?
bossy22
Dec 2012
#36
The AR-15 derived from the AR-10 which derived from a civilian survival rifle project...
Clames
Dec 2012
#139
From my limited understanding, assault weapons are weapons initially designed for military use.
janx
Dec 2012
#52
I invite all of you to google "automatic assault weapon videos". You will find dozens
pasto76
Dec 2012
#17
Note that he was not old enough to legally firearms in the state. I wonder if he use his
geckosfeet
Dec 2012
#28
The issue is rarely the wealth of the Parents, it is the lack of adequate Mental Health Care:
happyslug
Dec 2012
#124