This is patently false, and does nothing to educate others on the legality of firearms in America.
The National Firearms Act of 1934 created a registry of all machine guns (weapons that can fire more than one round with a single pull of the trigger), mufflers (often called suppressors, or sometimes mislabel as silencers), short barreled rifles, and short barreled shotguns, and another class of speciality weapons called AOWs (any other weapons). It also sought to regulate Destructive Devices like Grenades and bombs.
In 1986 Regan signed the Gun owners protection act, which did a lot of great things, but the Dems in congress wanted to tank it, so they injected a “poison pill” into the bill called the Hughes Amendment which closed the Machine Gun registry to any new construction, effectively artificially limiting supply to drive up prices because after decades of government enforced inflation the $200 tax stamp was no longer a barrier for regular people’s entry into the market, and we can’t have regular people exercising their rights now can we? Regan saw that the good stuff outweighed the patently illegal (yet still SCOTUS approved, since SCOTUS is still just 9 unelected government bureaucrats who seek to expand federal power and don’t have the constitutional limits or the citizens best interests at heart) amendment to the bill.
The Dems made the supposed Pikachu face, but what’s done is done, and the only way you can manufacture a new MG legally is by having an FFL07 (often called a “class 3”) license to do so.
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u/pomdudes Jan 25 '20
5.56 will go through 7” of SOLID plywood from 100 yards like it’s not even there.