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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (893032)	10/11/2015 2:23:01 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572649

The unavailability of certain weapons (hand grenades, for example) is not based on whether they are "needed" or not. It is based on whether they may be legally possessed or not. Many of the banned weapons are banned by statute that prohibits "destructive" weapons, which AR 15s are not (to be "destructive" a weapon must carry an explosive warhead of some type or be a bomb or other device). So, if Congress passes a law that makes handguns illegal, and it then passes constitutional muster with the Supreme Court, it is illegal. However, given the decision in Heller, that seems like an unlikely outcome unless a conservative justice retires or dies. AFAIK, "need" never enters into the picture.

To: RMF who wrote (893032)	10/11/2015 2:09:53 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By one_less Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572649

Do you think there is a particular reason not to let people have C4? If so maybe it shouldn't be allowed. My point was only that there doesn't need to be a reason to allow something, but rather there needs to be a reason to disallow it, and that there isn't any reason to disallow a rifle because it happens to have a flash suppressor or any of the other cosmetic differences that get it designated as an "assault weapon" according to some laws. I didn't say the same thing about C4, or anything about C4. C4 is a different subject and one I'm not very interested in right now.