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Automatics aren't priced that way to erode our freedoms. They are that expensive because of basic economics. With the registry closed to new manufacture for the civilian market, there is an upward demand on a scarce resource. Demand has increased. Supply has not.
Our freedoms were already eroded before prices skyrocketed. It was the cause of those price sounds. And that happened under Reagan, with no pushback from the NRA. They didn't give two shits about the Hughes Amendment.
Comment by [deleted] at 04/12/2018 at 22:50 UTC
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But by artificially limiting the supply with both the AWB and the transferable/nontransferable designation it makes owning automatics prohibitively expensive.
I'm not huge fan of the NRA but that's infringement anyway you slice it.
Comment by Applejaxc at 05/12/2018 at 01:31 UTC
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utomatics aren't priced that way to erode our freedoms.
They're priced that way BECAUSE they were outlawed/regulated to a point where the ones that can be legally owned are increasingly rare. It's not "basic economics," it's the government fucking with supply.