Whoa, someone does research on guns?
Via the geek, comes The myth of the easy machine gun:
The spokesman added that the conversion kits are illegal in Illinois. Well, then, where do you get one? They are probably available at gun dealers in states with looser gun laws, he suggested.
I thanked the good fellow and went on a search for a “machine gun conversion kit.” I looked all through Shotgun News, the bible for gun buyers and sellers. Didn’t see a single conversion kit. If you can’t find a gun item in Shotgun News, you can’t find it anywhere.
There’s more. One nitpick is he writes:
I’ve been following the [assault weaposn ban] debate. One point always seems to go unexplained. Once some concerned police chief declares that semi-automatic rifles are dangerously easy to convert, the discussion leaps elsewhere. No details of the conversion task are forthcoming.
Actually, the anti-gun folks spend a great deal of time obfuscating the terms machine guns and assault weapons. In fact, the VPC (and anti-gun group) once said:
Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.
May 24th, 2006 at 11:09 am
It’s a pack of lies. All the conversion kits were prosecuted out of existace in teh late 60s, when they added conversion kits and readily convertible weapons to the list of “things that are machine guns.” You still very rarely see a prosecution when some exceptionally stupid person thinks they have found a loophole in the law and tries to start selling conversions through SG or the internet. But that is exceedingly rare.