re: #259 A Mom Anon

Can someone explain to me how banning military/police type weapons and ammo violates anyone’s rights under the Constitution? I’m trying to figure that out. Unless you’re part of law enforcement or the military, or part of that “well regulated militia”(which no longer exists because we have a standing military and police forces) then your “need”for such weapons is imaginary. I get the hobby aspect of it, but if that’s your thing, then you keep the weapons at the gun range with your fellow hobbyists. I don’t know what the answers are, but the proliferation of guns is a big clue as to why this horror keeps on and on. Other countries don’t have this problem to the degree we do and it seems to me the biggest difference is our easy access to guns.

The handguns that police and the military use are the same kind as used by civilians. In fact, high capacity 9mm pistols were sold to civilians prior to the US Army adopting the M9 (Beretta Model 90F). So you’d be banned something because of who lawfully adopted it later.

As for ammo, most military ammo is Full Metal Jacket (FMJ), and the military is barred from using expending or fragmenting ammo by treaty.