Ron, If you have a class 3 license you too can own an automatic weapon if your backround is clean.

You will have to pay a shitload of special taxes and have a significant gun safe able to pass a physical security evaluation. Buy a silencer for it too.

The concept is
Keep America talking about Mexican immigration,
Mexican drug wars.
keep Mexica destabilized

then when , the Mexican gov asks the U.S. for military
assistance, it will be publicly acceptable.

Then when we do that, the Mexican gov will sell
the Nationalized Oil to American Oil companies.
That is what all this is about….
Always, always, with american policy think oil
and you won’t go wrong.
All the rest is a media sideshow to get the public
educated their way…....that is your border publicity
immigration, drug wars et al.
P.S. they aren’t really drug wars down there,
they are economic wars, just keep listening to your main
stream media liberal mindless.

May I suggest that the 2nd Amendment is not about the “right to bare arms.”  It is about the “right to bear arms,” which means to carry arms.  Bare arms and legs and other body parts are not addressed in the 2nd Amendment so far as I know. 
  Mules are trained to bear human beings along dangerous trails down into the Canyon.  Bears are not involved in this enterprise, however.  There are barely enough bears to eat all the garbage left by campers in Yellowstone, not to mention other national parks.
(Incidentally, I cannot bear people who insist upon bearing arms. I am in favor of strict gun control._
  Bear with me—I’m on a roll here!
  “To bear” is a verb, meaning to carry.  The past tense is “bore” and the past participle is “borne.”
  (I hope I am not boring you.)
  “To bare” is also a verb, meaning to remove any covering, naked, without clothes.  The past tense is “bared” and the past participle is “bared.” 
  “Barely” is an advert meaning “scarcely,”
“hardly.”  Adverbs modify verbs.  “I can barely tolerate bad English.”
  My understanding is that, if you walk the streets bearing a bare gun, whether it is a gun for shooting bears or not, you are disobeying the law and can be arrested in most civilized places.
  I hope I have made myself clear.

gerard,

legalization just makes too much sense. besides, what would happen to our
privatized prison industry?

Here in Pa, the nra stickers abound on the back of the pickup trucks. it is still a
deeply conservative state. but with the real estate developers writing the land
use regulations here, the floodgates have been opened to arrivees from NJ,
Ohio, etc. this has diluted the conservatism somewhat. actually conservatism is
a rather mild word for a lot of people here.

Here is pa, in terms of guns, most anything goes. ak-47’s remain perfectly
legal, and we cannot seem to even put a tiny regulation in place limiting
purchase to one firearm a month. I think those that need to buy more are
either selling them on the black market or are eating them.

Its nice to know that we can still export something.

Can’t keep turning our heads to gun control. We get all over the Oil companies, etc., and yet we allow guns to be made-sold-and put in the hands of those who shouldn’t have them. That seems to be OK. I’m tired of seeing and hearing about kids (adolescents) shooting and killing because they had the guns to do it. Control can be done. The answer is probably easier than we think because we choose not to think. Start by making possession of the weapons, just possession of them, more serious than the crime they could commit with them. The punishment adds onto any crime committed with them not instead of. Right to arms for protection can still be OK, but the guns can’t be removed from the home they protect. Things like what was written about in this article should not happen, and when caught they should pay a very very high price. We must get crimes attention before we can diminish it or why try? No special privilege for relatives or friends just because. Do the crime do the time-everybody. Beats caning.

De-criminalize drugs, supervise production and
sales, tax buyers and sellers highly at all points of sale, and use the money to help raise the standard of living of the ordinary Mexican family, and help Mexico to create work for their unemployed, thus decreasing the necessity of underpaid, underemployed people to come to the U.S. for work illegally. (Encourage the Catholic Church to advocate birth ccontrol in the interests of the survival of the human race.)

Yeah, right!  It isn’t that we don’t know what to do, but that we don’t have the courage, interest, intelligence to even try to do it.  That’s why we have so many problems.