Hortontoter, I understand what you're saying and I for one, agree.. No one "NEEDS" an AR, SKS, AK or any rifle with a high capacity magazine and especially a bumpstock or suppressor.. These are just novelty items and as my buddy say's ..we have them because we can. If any of you think you need these things to protect yourself from the government then you're just wrong. If they want our guns, they're going to take them.. And if you're willing to die in the process.. then bye bye.. you're only fooling yourself if you think you're going to stop them.
I also agree that it's too late for the government to try and reign in the guns and high capacity magazines that are already out there.. No way they have a clue about how many bumpstocks, high cap mags or many of the AR's that have been built and changed hands without registration.
I picked up a bunch of ammo and a 30 rnd mag for my mini 30 today, figure they'll be pulled from the shelf before too long.. them damn 30 rnd mags are hard to find
I would very much disagree with you that they could not be stopped. The total number of people being paid by the federal government is 3.5 million, this includes all branches of the military at 1.5 million. And when I say every federal employee I'm talking about everybody from your mailman to the guy who empties the trash at the Department of Education.
More hunting licenses than that were sold in Pennsylvania, Texas, Alabama, and Michigan alone last year. Total hunting licenses for the nation was 15.5 million. Let's assume they all have a gun or two.
38% of Americans own a firearm, that's one hundred twenty-two million individuals. Of that 38% they own enough firearms for every man woman and child in America.
Let's say only 10% of them put up a fight, that is still 12 million vs 3.5 million.
Remember a while back when that one California cop went rogue and shot another cop and there was this big man hunt. One armed individual tied up the entire law enforcement resources of the state of California for a week. The LA police chief was hiding in his home with 20 armed guards for a week. They even had every Federal alphabet boy they could spare out there looking for this guy. One man. Just one.
Then we can move into the "Superior Firepower of our military and federal forces" blah. Tell that to the Afghans and north Vietnamese. And whose side do you think NATO would be on if our government turn military forces on its civilian population? For Christ sakes we are supporting known terrorist fighters in Syria because Assad used military force against his "civilians"
Just because for the past hundred and fifty some-odd years we have remained a largely peaceful nation, does not mean these boys out here don't have teeth. And this is what scares the ever living shit out of liberals and why they don't want you to have guns.
