re: #73 William Lewis

Actually, they are but due to the Hughes amendment of 1986 that stopped allowing newly made full automatic weapons to be added to the transferable registry, the price of them has climbed through the roof. Cheap ones are $10,000 to $15,000 and desirable ones are $75,000 +.

Then you have to apply for your tax stamp and meet any local regulations for storage and transport. As a result of being so highly regulated, there are very few crimes with automatic weapons. 99.99% of the so called assault weapons are simply semi-auto look alikes because so few real ones are available at any price.

When SHTF, the last thing I want is a hog that eats 600 hard-to-get rounds per minute.