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To: Land Shark who wrote (891707)	10/5/2015 12:15:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575803

The point about driving on private property is that you can get a car without a license there is no restriction on sales to people with licenses. And drivers licenses are easy to get. So requiring the license isn't much of a restriction for car ownership. It is in many places for gun ownership. Speed limits are far less restrictive of car ownership and normal use then all the types of restrictions they have on guns. Heavily rescticting ownership of full auto weapons might be someone like speed limits in that it limits how rapidly you can shoot bullets with your gun. Speed limits only apply on public roads. Restrictions on types of guns and magazines apply on your own property and there is nothing similar for cars, Horse Power isn't restricted, fuel tank size isn't restricted. And anyone can take there car and use it on any open public road in the US, without any special justification or reason needed. Try firing your gun in the middle of a city street when there is no special justification like self defense. In this case the restriction on guns makes sense (firing in a populated area is dangerous) but its one more way how cars are more restricted then guns. One has to wear seat belts in most jurisdictions (no such equivalents with guns). False, many jurisdictions have requirements to lock up guns. That's the closet equivalent. There isn't much else that would be similar that could be mandated. guns aren't regulated to the extent anywhere near automobiles are They are regulated much more. If I had the money I could buy an exotic sports car today, drive to Chicago (even though I'm not an Illinois resident, and without any permits or documentation from Illinois, Chicago, or the feds, I could drive it all day on the city streets. Try legally buying a machine gun without a federal permit and then use it all day on Chicago streets and see how long you can go without the police intervening.