Somewhere in my dads photos are a series of one going over the side of HMS Bulwark.

That is wrong.

It only requires a two hundred dollar Federal Tax to be paid.
Transportation and use varies from state to state.

Even a class 2 or 3 dealer permit is not an annual deal and is not that expensive.

I worked at a place that had a class 3 permit for machine guns, it was about $600/year (Califailure).

They might have a point as such checks won’t necessarily pick up the nutter that killed so many people last year…but I just found out Lanza fired 155 shots in five minutes in the Sandy Hook shootings that killed almost thirty people last year.

How would a background check have prevented that? He stole the guns he used.

I amazed that these things are not popping off all over the place with the amount of ordnance dropped here and in Europe.

They are…

The problems are from other then firearms, one is mental health services and being ready to act on them.

Yeah, that monumental fanny Diane Feinstein has said that “all military veterans are mentally unstable & we should take away their guns”

The cops with guns at Heathrow never bothered me, what surprised me was seeing the Tanks sat on the roundabout.

“Promotional products” used to be a handy tax loop hole 😉

You could be miles from help in a vast continent 3,000 miles across… and while you’d probably not wish to be in position where you had to fire in anger…sadly most murders in the US are overwhelming of poor people by guns…I can now see that a gun might have some deterence value….though my stance has nothing to do with the second amendment right to bear arms or any of the “we the people” scared cows!

The vast majority gun deaths (not including suicide) are blacks killing each other, given that they are only 13% of the population but make up about 70% of the murders.

& You shouldn’t say “used the gun in anger” in the US, that gets you a one way ticket to the pokey. Being pissed off is not a valid reason to use a firearm (but I know what you meant)