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Originally Posted by filtherton
you might want to be a bit more consistent for the sake of argument
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You may have the right to keep and bear a given arm, but you've got to GET ONE first. If there are none for sale in your price range and you have no capability to make it yourself... oh well. It would be a right to have them, not get them.
This is basically the same rationale that the NFA uses to restrict machinegun and destructive device ownership. It's not illegal to own because it's a machinegun. It's illegal to own because it has no one paid the taxes on it so it can't be legally bought or sold.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
Do you think that a fully automatic belt fed 40mm grenade launcher could kill 80,000 people and obliterate an entire city in the blink of an eye? Do you think a fully automatic belt fed 40mm grenade launcher could cause an epidemic of fatal disease? Granted, i'm no expert when it comes to fully automatic belt fed 40mm grenade launchers, but i find the idea pretty unlikely.
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You run into a lot of megaton nuclear devices at garage sales? Mail order weaponized anthrax spores?
It would not be particularly difficult for a sufficiently motivated and financed individual or group of individuals to render entire cities uninhabitable and kill tens of thousands of people. Fortunately, people with sufficient motivation and finacing to do these things often have more structured goals than "WHOO! BLOW SOME SHIT UP!" so the question of private tactical nuclear device ownership would remain largely hypothetical whether there was a recognized private citizens Right to have one or not.