05-26-2017, 07:20 AM
(05-25-2017, 09:13 PM)mallorian69 Wrote: It's mostly about cost. The actual cost of a class 3 permit is only a few hundred bucks but the actual guns are thousands and often 10s of thousands of dollars. Your average Joe can't afford the guns. Also the only automatic guns you can legally buy are ones that were manufactured before a certain date meaning there is a limited supply and most owners dont like to come off of what they have.
Is this an argument for welfare? If average Joe had more money he wouldn't commit crimes because he could afford more expensive guns? Or is it an argument for more expensive permitting and gun pricing in general? Or just an observation that those who can afford expensive guns are not criminals, and even if we take the guns of just the poor folk they will still commit crimes, they will just have to stab rich people with forks while they try to get their $10,000 guns out of the gun safe in time to fend off the attacks?
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