[SEL] OHS gone mad

[bill at antique-engines.com]

People use CARS and TRUCKS as deadly weapons on a daily basis in the US
and those aren't banned.............

I could stab you to death with a pencil and those aren't banned.

I could use a sling and hit you hard enough with a rock to kill you yet I
can own both rocks and slings.

Bill

>> But what I cant understand is why in the state of Texas I would need
>> to own an anti tank gun? or and M16 full auto can someone please
>> explain this to me?
>
> You don't "need" to own that side by side shotgun, or a bow, or an
> engine, but you want to. There are people who own (having gone through
> intensive government investigation and paid heavy taxation to do so)
> arms like you mention, because they're fascinated with them and play
> with them like we do our old engines. They're not hurting anyone.
> Contrary to some myths, it's been pretty hard to legally own such
> things as fully automatic weapons, short barrelled shotguns or rifles,
> or "destructive devices" such as antitank weapons in the U.S. since
> 1934.
>
> But why should folks who aren't going to misuse them be forbidden from
> having them? The same question applies to all other categories of
> weaponry, including so-called "assault weapons" with semiautomatic
> actions and ugly black plastic stocks.
>
> John Culp
> Bristol, Tennessee, USA
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