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13. I see the ban really helped
Sat Jun 15, 2019, 04:18 PM
Jun 2019
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/homemade-sub-machine-guns-australia-video/

In 2015, Australian police estimated 10 percent of the guns they seized were homemade. In 2009, copies of the MAC machine pistol were confiscated. The MAC is a little more sophisticated than the guns in this video, but is well within the capability of any metal working hobbiest. The underground manufacturer admitted that he made as many as 100 for the black market before a sting operation caught him. The MAC homemade guns included a homemade silencer and two magazines.


Why, in this country, is there a push to ban future sales of semi-auto AR-15s but no push in most states to overturn the law preventing those who now lawfully own ARs and most other guns from doing a background check on someone they sell a gun to?


IMHO, "disarm" in this sense, is when the law requires the surrender of a gun.

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