Reply #83: Nope.

[gorfle]

Your assertion is that the nuts would not be abiding by the laws about converting semi-automatic firearms to fully-automatic firearms.

Because the crime and confiscation rate for fully-automatic firearms is virtually zero, we can deduce that either hardly anyone is converting firearms or they are very, very, very good at concealing their activities.

Occam's razor is helpful here, but so is the fact that a fully-automatic weapon is not of much use. They draw incredible amounts of attention when they are fired at shooting ranges, and they burn through ammunition at an extraordinary rate. With ammunition prices what they are, a single 30-round magazine for an AK-47 is going to be about $7 worth of ammunition, and in full-auto mode, would be expended in a matter of seconds.

So you have to be a nut willing to risk time in federal prison who also has a lot of expendable income.

Odds are, since we don't find these folks being arrested hardly ever, there are not very many of them.