Quote from: BobLawblaw on October 03, 2017, 10:42:09 PM

Quote from: jbreher on October 03, 2017, 09:01:08 PM

Quote from: bitserve on October 03, 2017, 08:43:16 PM

(I think owning full auto is illegal in USA)

Popular misconception. There is no federal prohibition upon private citizens owning full auto weapons.

True, but the scrutiny to legally purchase those weapons is not worth the hassle to me.

To my understanding, if you have a license to purchase that type of weaponry, the ATF basically has carte-blanche access to "raid" you whenever they want for whatever reason - under the auspices of a "compliance check" or some other regulatory reasons.

True dat.

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If I ever want to have fun shooting serious guns, I'll go out to Vegas and hook up with a bunch of ex-military/soldier-of-fortune types, while plinking at 12" steel plates out of a BMG .50 in the desert at 250 yards.

Out this way, we used to have an annual machine gun shoot. You could go and for a fee, fire pretty much anything you might dream of. M4s, AKs, BARs, MP5s, MAC10s, UZIs, M1 .30 carbines, M14 7.62x54 select fire, M62s (there's your .50), M2s (more fun - your .50 in full auto form), pintle-mounted quad ak-ak guns, the list goes on & on. One year, even a fully restored Sherman Tank with 76mm howitzer (too pricey for me back then). Shooting over a square mile of nothing with targets scattered about. At nightfall, the 'mad minute' of tracer fire, with replenished active targets which included full propane cylinders and quarter-sticks of dynamite. Good times indeed.

Sadly, discontinued about three or four years back.