That's my queue:
In order to be a protected, a weapon must be "
in common use at the time", and may not be "
dangerous and unusual". If a given weapon fails one or both of these qualifications, it is not protected for civilian ownership. So, let's go down the list:
- Pistol: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? No.
- Rifle: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? No.
- Automatic rifle: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? No.
- Hand grenade: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? Yes.
- Grenade launcher: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? Yes.
- Rocket launcher: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? Yes.
- Patriot missile battery: In common use at the time? No. Is dangerous and unusual? Yes.
- Nuclear warheads: In common use at the time? No. Is dangerous and unusual? Yes.
- Crack Cocaine: In common use at the time: No. Is dangerous and unusual: Yes.
- Methamphetamine: In common use at the time: No. Is dangerous and unusual: Yes.
- Meth-lab: In common use at the time: No. Is dangerous and unusual: Yes.
- Nuclear weapon: In common use at the time: No. Is dangerous and unusual: Yes.
- ICBMs: In common use at the time? No. Is dangerous and unusual? Yes.
Tanks are
not weapons. Tanks are
vehicles weapons can be mounted on, but anyone with enough money to buy one
can own a tank. That does
not mean you can have a functioning cannon, 50cal machine gun, 2 saw machine guns, or grenades...it means you can have the
tank and the tank
only. You can own a black hawk helicopter, also...doesn't mean you can have the twin mini-guns.
Concealed carry in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Criminals generally want easy targets. Having a gun makes you a harder target. When you're in a population which carries, you are safer even if you don't carry a gun yourself, because a criminal has no way of knowing if you're carrying concealed or not and doesn't want to risk finding out the hard way.
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Here we had to link to this law yeat again. We have to keep repeating ourselves, so rather than write it out manually over and over and over, a lot of us just save it to a word doc.