Banning guns versus banning alcohol.

[Ghost in the Machine]

45. "you can obtain one if you obtain a FFL (not hard to do) and can afford to pay for the weapon"... or

if you had $400 on the streets of Miami back in the 80's... that's how much I paid for an Uzi. The ony place I ever shot it was deep in the backroads of the Everglades, just target shooting, or shooting to be shooting, and that's where it remains today, in the bottom of a canal. The damn thing used to jam so much that I got frustrated one day and just tossed it in the canal.

If you had connections with the Jamaicans or Colombians, which I did at the time, you could get an AK-47 for between $800 - $1000. Hell, you could get one for free, plus some cash, if you agreed to do a "hit" for them but I was never interested, or even give a second thought, to anything like that. Stuff like that could get YOU killed too!

I only got the Uzi for the same reason I bought a Corvette once, and sold it a couple of months later.... the reason?? Just so I could say that I had owned one.... I would imagine that even on the streets, with the right connections, it would still cost a LOT more today.

I had a Model 1956 Romanian Military SKS that was semiauto, and had someone offer to convert it to full auto for me, but I wasn't interested. It was LEGAL the way it was, and I was much older and wiser and actually CARED about the consequences of getting caught with a full auto. I just sold it to a collector about 2 months ago. I'd had it for 4 or 5 years, obtained in some "horse trading", and finally found someone who knew the value, as the Romanian Issue is very rare in the US....

Peace,

Ghost