Tx rifleman, I know no one with a belt fed, so they must be uncommon? thats as dumb as your reply was. I never said that belt fed semi's didn't exist. I said they are uncommon. If you want we can just poll thr members who hear owns a semi auto beltfed(not select fire) in another thread. this will eliminate our different geographic areas from too much influence. then taking the amt of members on THR we can get a good idea of how common they are.
As for your other comment about me not knowing history. you are wrong sir. I never stated that the milita was suppossed to have the same TOE as a line company. Not to delve off topic but as long as americans are allowed to own firearms freely ewven if we all had garands. it would be sufficent to keep the goverment in check(alllowing we have the will and numbers to use them) I stated that allowing M4, AK47 etc allows the common man to fill the role of the militia man being called up. I didnt state that they would be equal.
IMHO no matter what weapons we have an insurrection will be crushed. unless the ppl are willing, and the beautiful thing about america is if the ppl are willing they wouldn't vote ppl in who create the need for an insurrection.
If you are going to debate, debate what I said, you give your position back up yours, and try to tear down mine. Do not insult me.
My position is that
1 belt fed machine guns should not be freely purchased from the hardware store(as I believe all other guns should be provided you are over 18)
2 I think that with a bkgrd check these weapons should be availible for purchase. obvisouly if you feel that the time has come you can bring your MG with you to stop the evil gov
3 while this may seem to many gunnies as a serious affront to 2A My position is that the founding fathers intended for the constitution to be a living document, updated from time to time, through congress/convention. Further, I don't feel that having beltfed MG will help the citizens win an insurrection any more then having M16s will/will not allow us too. If the american ppl wanted to overthrow the goverment now it would happen with the weapons we have now(and would capture) If you study history you will see that while weapons win battles ppl win wars esp. insurrections, see Iraq/Vietnam
4 I also think grenades/biowar/gasses/nukes artillery should be regulated but that is off topic to this thread
5. I think that beltfed weapons through a sustained rate of a high volume of fire, compined with/ bipod wieght of the weapon, and depictions on tv shows along with the general decrease in parents rasing their children. that this restriction, will save lives, even if theses incidents are few and far btw. In ex(though not involving FA) the columbine killers made many pipe bombs many of them failed to detonate, if they could have legally purchased hand grenades many more would have gone off leading directly to a larger loss of life
Now I could be wrong if you want to continue this debate I welcome it but please do not insinuate I'm on narcotics/or an imbecile. I've read many of your posts and believe you are a gentleman, plz do not disapoint me.