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Originally Posted by Tam Li Hua
I know I haven't been very involved in this discussion, so forgive me a bit for butting in. ^_^
Honestly, if I met a private citizen who not only wanted to own a machine gun, but also did, then I would be much much more concerned about the private citizen than I ever am of any government agency.
Maybe that's naive on my part or whatever, but that's how I feel. [Then again, crazed fanatics of -any- kind tend to put me off, simply because they are so damned unpredictable.]
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You really have to separate out those who own machine guns, and t those who would want to own them for nostalgic reasons, from the nuts. Everyone I've been introduced to who owns a machine gun does so for historical purposes, the fact that they're fully operational is more of an authenticity thing. I'm sure there's a few out there that own machine guns for the sake of owning a raw killing machines, however, they keep their base feelings behind historical façade. That isn't to say you won't find loonies firing them off. The thing is that loonies like Deadman don't own them. They're just using one that a history buff has at a show.
Then there's those who want them. If they're not outright nuts then they fall into the history buff group. Either they're into machine guns for their various war period links or as a more general history of warfare/guns. However, if you ever encounter someone who wants a machine gun just on the fact that they're "f'ing cool as hell", and that's the least scary reason I've heard for them to want one, then they're crazy, and thus shouldn't be allowed to own any firearms, plain and simple.