Are you fucking kidding me? Half the gun nuts I know are fast approaching the fringe right and love the police state so long as the police state applies to everyone else. Most of them are moderates but they are single issue voters when it comes to firearms, the rest either libertarians or left leaning.

I don't think an NICS denial is grounds for prosecution considering the frequency of false positives and people not having any idea why they are being denied. The real prosecutions result from straw purchases and lying on the form 4473.

.223 isn't a military cartridge. 5.56x45mm NATO is a military cartridge. .308 isn't a military cartridge, 7.62x51mm NATO is a military cartridge. The whole idea is fucking stupid anyways, since god only knows how many popular, common cartridges have been used by the military at some point. On top of that, the politically motivated could just direct military procurement to outlaw every new replacement round. What? The military made a spec for a rifle cambered in .247, gave it a designation, and had a single unit produced, and kept for special purposes? Fuck you for not having 1000.00 laying around to start reloading.

You need a deep hole drilling machine to ream out a barrel, not a lathe.

That's because fully automatic weapons are regulated by other laws.

A lathe might work for a pistol, but for any rifle that uses a modern cartridge with modern powders, a lathe isn't going to cut it.

From what I can tell, a rifled barrel is the most difficult part of the gun to manufacture, the machines used for it are expensive as hell and the process is time consuming.

Well the good news is that we can't reliably make all plastic cartridges, let alone all plastic weapons,. On top of that, people with access to a CNC mill have been quite capable of machining a rifle parts out of billet for years(Specifically the controlled part of the weapon). Yet the world hasn't fallen apart.

Or you can just go to bass pro shop.

Oh great, I'm glad to know that I'm no longer middle class because I don't make six figures.

I realize that the value of money has gone to shit, but a single person doesn't need six figures to be middle class.

So could the CIA, NSA, FBI or any of the 20 or 30 Intelligence/enforcement agencies in the US government.

What is to say that this hasn't already happened and everything we have seen has been... "just as planned."

Oh look at me! I can speculate too!

No, reputable breeders would likely need to move out of the city.

"Pet Stores" which actually sell larger animals generally get their "purebreds" from puppy mills which are about the most horrible thing you can find.The animals are rarely actual purebreds. The Animals are treated terribly. Conditions are awful. They rarely receive the health care they need.

Reputable breeders don't sell their animals to people who will resell them. Some breeders actually make you sign a contract to give/sell them the dog back if you can't take care of it.

Jesus Christ. Did you not read my post? Was the sarcasm of my post that subtle?

"Purebred" is quite obviously in scare quotes. Mostly to denote that pet shop "Purebreds" tend to be from puppy mills and aren't usually purebreds at all.

People will need to drive outside the city limits now.