Mega Rad Gun Thread

[WelperHelper99]

same. my small stash of russian 5.45 is my shtf supply. there just isnt any commercially available 5.45 (when you can even find it) which comes close to the russian military stuff. in the long run, i think i just need to finally invest in a decent ar and a stash of good 5.56.

I don't know how you survive in this market lol. Haven't seen 5.45 on a shelf in a long time. I can at least get 7.62x39mm. Doubt prices online are great. Yeah a 5.56 would be better at this point.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

I'm really late to the party on this one but a good American made combat pistol? You're gonna pay out the ass but the 2011 has a special place in my heart. Probably cause I built mine from scratch in 10mm/.40 but a good made 2011 will never be quite as reliable as the Glock made in Smyrna Georgia.

My only real recommendation is to make sure your gun can be milled in the first place. Not all guns have the internal geometry to support a slide cut. things like strikers/extractor roll pins can get in the way, and if you care about backup irons, you might not have any space for one at all.
Otherwise, just do your homework on whoever you're sending a slide to. Bubba's machine shop is often cheaper for a reason; make sure you know why before sending in your pistol. If it's a gun you care about, spend the money on the more expensive guy.

Fun fact: everyone hates the colt model 80 for it's fagtastical overly complicated firing assembly promoting safety for a problem that never really existed but, did you know it's extra parts prevents slide milling for a nice flat plain for a Holosun?

i have finally seen the light. friendship with 9mm AR over. MP5 is new best friend

But, it won't take strait Glock mags or have the LRBHO? Did you have a nice delayed blowback AR or a strait blowback recoil "thumping jumping" AR?

Test drive the CMMG radial relayed system, it stops that weird "hammer effect" of a 9mm bolt slamming back with no rollers or lugs, it does great for PCC cans. The extra dwell time you can hear (or more like can't hear) at least in my opinion. Even the old German MP40 you can see burning powder flying out the chamber in slowmo modern day videos. MP40 was a great gun for something designed so long ago, 9mm was always just a little too hot for strait BB imho. While I'm ranting here why in the fuck did the Germans send their general infantry out there will bolt guns? The same shit they used last war? Meanwhile they had the MP40/MG34 and late late the sturmgewer 44. Imagine fighting as rifleman with a Bolt action Mauser shooting it out 25-50 yards away against some GI pumping out 2 rounds a second at you with his M1 Garand. Fuck that shit.

 

[Friedrich Hayek's Ghost]

While I'm ranting here why in the fuck did the Germans send their general infantry out there will bolt guns?

You fight with the guns you have. The MP40 and MG34 are special-purpose guns not suited to the average rifleman. The STG-44 might have helped, but Germany's industrial base was good and fucked by the time the design was finished. Hitler also personally did not want that gun completed, for some reason.

 

[EggImpregnator]

AKs make no sense to buy in the current year. Any gun in 5.45 is irrelevant. So it comes down to 762x39 vs 556. 556 is lighter, cheaper, shoots flatter, is available at more gun store, is used by more people. 556 is really the only cartridge I'd buy an AK in today. But you look at a decent 556 AK vs a midrange AR and its just like "why bother?". The AR will give you more performance at a lower price, with something that's easier to get accessories on and to work on.

So I'd have to be REALLY in love with the AK to want one in the first place, and even then I'd have to get one in 556 to make any sort of sense.

 

[Foley]

While I'm ranting here why in the fuck did the Germans send their general infantry out there will bolt guns? The same shit they used last war? Meanwhile they had the MP40/MG34 and late late the sturmgewer 44. Imagine fighting as rifleman with a Bolt action Mauser shooting it out 25-50 yards away against some GI pumping out 2 rounds a second at you with his M1 Garand. Fuck that shit.

They should've stuck with the bolt actions until the end of the war TBH, instead of wasting resources on the STG-44. Yeah, it sucks for the individual soldier to be outgunned by an enemy with a selfloader or a SMG, but it has been like 160 years since the outcome of a war was decided by individual service rifle superiority (Prussians vs Austrians 1866). It's not all that different in Ukraine right now. Probably sucks for either side to go against enemy SOF units who are fully night fighting capable while you are stuck with a basic AK with iron sights and not even a white light. But what actually matters in the grand scale of things is artillery and mechanized units. Don't get me wrong, we should absolutely try to equip individual soldiers as best we can. Improve across the board. But with pre-war Germany (and especially during war) those resources were better spent elsewhere. When it comes to small arms, just build more GPMGs.

The Germans did experiment with selfloaders between the world wars, it just wasn't seen as a priority. And they made the right call on that. They didn't lose because they had bolt-actions.

 

[Akran]

AKs make no sense to buy in the current year. Any gun in 5.45 is irrelevant. So it comes down to 762x39 vs 556. 556 is lighter, cheaper, shoots flatter, is available at more gun store, is used by more people. 556 is really the only cartridge I'd buy an AK in today. But you look at a decent 556 AK vs a midrange AR and its just like "why bother?". The AR will give you more performance at a lower price, with something that's easier to get accessories on and to work on.

So I'd have to be REALLY in love with the AK to want one in the first place, and even then I'd have to get one in 556 to make any sort of sense.

Some what agreed, I only want a m92 to throw a "groza" kit on it. I ended up finding some Tula ammo for .45c a round which is meh. I have a romanian AKM and full auto AMD65. I've always wanted a 5.45 but since the import ban I've held off hard. If I find a rifle for a great price (good luck) then I'll buy one but they are too much currently. I don't know how to feel about the 5.56 AKs because I don't own one nor have I shot one. My biggest ammo gripe currently is 7.62x51mm, for all the kiwis considering a full auto MG3 have fun blowing $200 in about 3 minutes per range outing. I mainly use my semi MG42 now in 8mm, even ammo costs for that is shit. A friend of mine gave me a few boxes of his 1939 greek ammo which I've only shot 15 rounds of so far. Of the 15 I got two light primer strikes compared to maybe 2 every 50 rounds with Romanian steel 8mm.

 

[Samhain]

556 is really the only cartridge I'd buy an AK in today.

I don't see the point. 5.56 was meant for ARs. The AR platform is superior to the AK platform. I'm sure I should add "in my opinion" to that statement, but I'd rather open that can of worms and dump it all over the ground. I could definitely see the appeal of AKs and 7.62x39 back when you could get a decent AK and ammo for it for dirt cheap, but that ship has sailed.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

id like to take a moment to defend the 7.26x39. when it comes to most situations for the average person i think it is a good round. in fact for home defense and urban areas i'd like it more than a 5.56 based solely on the nigger stopping power of it compared to 5.56. if you shoot an uppity nig-nog with 7.62 you know he is going down and staying down. i recall from reading the black hawk down book how a some of the rangers and delta forces guys complained that the somalis wouldnt always drop when hit by 5.56.

sure, for long range or rapid fire shooting and for carrying ammo due to the lower weight, the 5.56 is better. but the thing is:
when it comes to accuracy, is the average person going to shoot at distances and have the skills needed for it to really matter from practical standpoint?
when it comes to rapid fire, the same applies, it is a skill that the average shooter doesnt have.


now this is assuming the rounds and guns firing them are available in similar quantities and price. if you are going price and availability in the us, then 5.56 is the clear winner.

 

[wopirish]

They should've stuck with the bolt actions until the end of the war TBH, instead of wasting resources on the STG-44. Yeah, it sucks for the individual soldier to be outgunned by an enemy with a selfloader or a SMG, but it has been like 160 years since the outcome of a war was decided by individual service rifle superiority (Prussians vs Austrians 1866). It's not all that different in Ukraine right now. Probably sucks for either side to go against enemy SOF units who are fully night fighting capable while you are stuck with a basic AK with iron sights and not even a white light. But what actually matters in the grand scale of things is artillery and mechanized units. Don't get me wrong, we should absolutely try to equip individual soldiers as best we can. Improve across the board. But with pre-war Germany (and especially during war) those resources were better spent elsewhere. When it comes to small arms, just build more GPMGs.

The Germans did experiment with selfloaders between the world wars, it just wasn't seen as a priority. And they made the right call on that. They didn't lose because they had bolt-actions.

There was the whole debacle around the g41 where they wanted it to be both semi-auto and a backup bolt action. Which is so absurd in hindsight that it definitely hindered any speedy advancement on that front.

• no holes were to be bored into the barrel for tapping gas for the loading mechanism;
• the rifles were not to have any moving parts on the surface;
• and in case the auto-loading mechanism failed, a bolt action was to be included.

I mean, the G41w later becoming the g43 only existed by ignoring two of these very dumb requirements. But it still had the weird gas system at the muzzle.

This is a g41 (mauser)....which yeaaaa.

 

[EggImpregnator]

id like to take a moment to defend the 7.26x39. when it comes to most situations for the average person i think it is a good round. in fact for home defense and urban areas i'd like it more than a 5.56 based solely on the nigger stopping power of it compared to 5.56. if you shoot an uppity nig-nog with 7.62 you know he is going down and staying down. i recall from reading the black hawk down book how a some of the rangers and delta forces guys complained that the somalis wouldnt always drop when hit by 5.56.

5.56 (especially out of a 20" barrel) is way more devastating of a round that 7.62x39. It doesn't matter what kind of somalian bathtub meth those niggers were on in Mogadishu, if they got hit with a 5.56 round center mass out of an m16a2, they went down. I'd be willing to bet the 556 suffers from the same problem 30 carbine did in Korea - soldiers just missed their target and blamed the gun instead of their own marksmanship. You had guys claiming 30 carbine was so weak it would bounce off of thick chinese winter coats. We know with hindsight these accoounts were most patently false, and a result of prideful men not wanting to look like a bad shot.

To save myself from typing out a very long and tedious message on why 5.56 has way better terminal ballistics, I'll link you this article and some images of 5.56 wound vs a 762x39 wound.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200916031439/https://sofrep.com/news/why-id-rather-be-shot-by-an-ak47-than-an-m4/

Spoiler: 556 wound

Spoiler: 762x39 wound

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[Falcos_Commisar]

There was the whole debacle around the g41 where they wanted it to be both semi-auto and a backup bolt action. Which is so absurd in hindsight that it definitely hindered any speedy advancement on that front.

• no holes were to be bored into the barrel for tapping gas for the loading mechanism;
• the rifles were not to have any moving parts on the surface;
• and in case the auto-loading mechanism failed, a bolt action was to be included.

I mean, the G41w later becoming the g43 only existed by ignoring two of these very dumb requirements. But it still had the weird gas system at the muzzle.

This is a g41 (mauser)....which yeaaaa.
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Remember kids, Italy and Japan were THIS close to mass issuing semi automatic rifles before WW2 kicked off.

Japan was probably going to use a Toggle lock and Italy was using a short recoil action

https://youtu.be/sZ9IACssv2Y?si=eMK0jla8FzPqgJ-C

Italy was making a lot of neat semi auto prototypes in the 1930s

https://youtu.be/GE4r9qG6on0?si=Da_qIh8GQ-MfHza8

 

[Samhain]

Something to keep an eye on.

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[The Dude]

You fight with the guns you have. The MP40 and MG34 are special-purpose guns not suited to the average rifleman. The STG-44 might have helped, but Germany's industrial base was good and fucked by the time the design was finished. Hitler also personally did not want that gun completed, for some reason.

Hitler was a WWI soldier and had romanticized ideas of what a soldier should be. He didn't understand that the whole battlefield was changing forever, even as it had changed right before his eyes due in part to the new tactics that were being solidified by his own troops. So he believed that riflemen should be armed with long range rifles chambered for full rifle cartridges like 8mm Mauser, even though typical engagement ranges for small arms had shrunk down to 200 meters or less where having a long, heavy rifle with low ammunition capacity and heavy recoil was more of a hindrance than a blessing. It took having his generals on the Eastern Front demanding more MP-43/MP-44s because they were more effective than the Kar98s and GeW43/Kar43s for the kind of fighting they were doing. That's what finally brought Hitler around to approving the Stg-44.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

Test drive the CMMG radial relayed system, it stops that weird "hammer effect" of a 9mm bolt slamming back with no rollers or lugs, it does great for PCC cans. The extra dwell time you can hear (or more like can't hear) at least in my opinion. Even the old German MP40 you can see burning powder flying out the chamber in slowmo modern day videos. MP40 was a great gun for something designed so long ago, 9mm was always just a little too hot for strait BB imho.

Have you shot a delayed blowback 9mm AR? You get the recoil impulse of the MP5 in an AR format.

i haven't had the pleasure. CMMG banshees are very attractive and would have probably been the more practical choice. on the other hand the MP5 has always been up there on cool gun mt. olympus and i've wanted one since i was a shitty kid so the century AP5 it was. the difference between that and the old basic blowback AR9 is palpable.

 

[DocAwe]

UZI > MP5

COMMENCE INTERNET SLAP FIGHT!

 

[WhoBusTank69]

UZI > MP5

COMMENCE INTERNET SLAP FIGHT!

CZ 26 > Uzi
get rekt

 

[EggImpregnator]

Theres this pervasive mindset or psychology in the gun world where people think "X is better than Y" then they go "well if Y is Inferior to X, Y must be totally shit".

And that's totally not true. I personally use an AR for home defense. If someone takes my 10.5 AR with an Aimpoint T2, and they hand me an M70 with a side rail and a Sig MSR red dot. Im not going to go "oh my God im totally defenseless this rifle is shit. I might as well bend over and pull my pants down so i can raped to death". Its like guys get in this mindset where if you dont have the absolute best gear, that automatically means the gear is useless and irredeemable.

The same can be said about the caliber debate. Its like yeah 9mm is the best handgun caliber, but that doesn't mean everything else is uselss and non lethal. If you're a cop and you carry a bone stock glock 17, and someone takes that g17 and replaces it with a g21, you're still perfectly capable of defending yourself. 2 or 4 or 5 less rounds in a pistol magazine isn't some earth shattering handicap to the user. 45acp doesn't turn into gumdrops and fairy farts when you pull the trigger.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Something to keep an eye on.

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(You forgot the PDF).

This is the battle you have prayed for, and dreaded 2A bros.

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https://ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2023cr10047-35

Text version in quotes below:

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER​

This matter is before the court on Defendant’s motion to dismiss based on Second Amendment grounds. (Doc. 26.) A response and a reply have been filed (Docs. 28, 29), and the court held a hearing to establish additional facts about the weapons charged. The motion is thus ripe for review. The court finds that the Second Amendment applies to the weapons charged because they are “bearable arms” within the original meaning of the amendment. The court further finds that the government has failed to establish that this nation’s history of gun regulation justifies the application of 18 U.S.C. § 922(o) to Defendant. The court therefore grants the motion to dismiss.

BACKGROUND​

Defendant Tamori Morgan is charged with two counts of possessing a machinegun in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(o). (Doc. 1.) Specifically, Defendant is charged with possessing an Anderson Manufacturing, model AM-15 .300 caliber machinegun and a machinegun conversion device. It was established at the hearing that the conversion device is a so-called “Glock switch” which allows a Glock, model 33, .357 SIG caliber firearm to fire as an automatic weapon.​

STANDARD​

Under the Second Amendment, “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” U.S. Const. amend. II. “[T]he Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.” D.C. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 582 (200. To keep arms means, simply, to possess arms. Id. at 583. If the plain text of the Second Amendment applies to a defendant’s conduct, the government has the burden to show that the regulation is consistent with this nation’s historical firearm regulation tradition. New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 17 (2022). This standard requires a “historical analogue” between the modern regulation and historical regulations, not a “historical twin.” United States v. Rahimi, 144 S. Ct. 1889, 1902–03 (2024).

ANALYSIS​

Defendant argues that 18 U.S.C. § 922(o) is unconstitutional facially and as applied to him. (Doc. 26 at 1.) Defendant first argues that, under the first step of Bruen, the plain text of the Second Amendment applies to his conduct of possessing machineguns. (Doc. 26 at 6.) The government argues to the contrary, pointing to language in Heller that suggests the unconstitutionality of machinegun regulation would be “startling,” and that the Second Amendment only applies to weapons that were commonly used by law-abiding citizens at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment. (Doc. 28 at 4 (citing Heller, 554 U.S. at 624–25).) The Tenth Circuit has yet to apply Bruen to § 922(o). Therefore the court starts its analysis at the beginning: the statutory text. Section 922(o) generally makes it unlawful to “possess a machinegun.” Id. Section 922 incorporates the definition of machinegun from 26 U.S.C. § 5845, which defines that term as "any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun, and any combination of parts from which a machinegun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person."§ 5845(b).
The court notes that this definition is extremely broad. It does not, for instance, include a projectile in the definition like the definitions for a “rifle” or “shotgun” do under 18 U.S.C. § 921 or § 5845. Nor does it require that a projectile or “shot” be expelled through the energy of an explosive or other propellant, as contemplated under the definitions of “rifle,” “shotgun,” “any other weapon” and “destructive” device” in § 5854(c) through (f), or the definitions of a “firearm,” “shotgun,” or “rifle” in § 921(a). Thus, this definition seems to encompass everything from an aircraft-mounted automatic cannon to a small hand-held taser or stun gun that can easily be placed inside a handbag and which shoots multi-shot bursts of electrical particles with a single pull of the trigger, or a fully automatic BB gun that shoots multiple rounds of metal projectiles using compressed air. The court is not, of course, faced with a situation where the government has charged someone under § 922(o) with illegal possession of a taser or a BB gun. But the example of the aircraft-mounted gun seems fatal to Defendant’s facial challenge. Plaintiff fails to show how an example like that would constitute a “bearable arm” within the Second Amendment’s protection. And to succeed on a facial challenge, Plaintiff must show that § 922(o) is unconstitutional in all its applications. Rahimi, 144 S. Ct. at 1888. The court thus proceeds to analyze Plaintiff’s as-applied challenge. Here, Plaintiff is charged with two counts of machinegun possession, and both counts apply to arms that can be carried in the hand. Thus, by definition, the machinegun and Glock switch are bearable arms within the plain text of the Second Amendment.1 The government relies on Heller to argue that machineguns are not covered by the plain text of that amendment. The Heller language cited by the government is unavailing. First, the government’s interpretation of Heller relies exclusively on dicta (and circuit authority that predates the historical analysis mandated in Bruen)—machineguns were not at issue in Heller. Second, the government’s interpretation would run directly counter to the essential analysis in Heller: just as the Fourth Amendment applies to modern “searches,” the Second Amendment applies to arms that did not exist at the country’s founding. Heller, 554 U.S. at 582.
hird, the government relies on comments in Heller regarding United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939), for the proposition that machineguns are not covered by the Second Amendment. In Miller, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the National Firearms Act’s prohibition against carrying an unregistered sawed-off shotgun across state lines. See id. at 175–77, 183. Interestingly, over half of the opinion in Miller was devoted to explaining how, in the years preceding and immediately following the enactment of the Second Amendment, one of the lawful purposes for which law-abiding citizens possessed modern (for that era) firearms was for service in the militia. Id. at 178–82. The Court surveyed several laws from that era that not only permitted, but essentially required, law-abiding citizens to provide for their own use modern military-style small arms. See id. at 180–82. Against that backdrop, the Court concluded that a sawed-off shotgun was not the type of weapon that would be useful for military service. See id. at 178, 182– 83. In Heller, the Supreme Court simply observed that Miller fit within the tradition of regulating “dangerous and unusual weapons.” Heller, 554 U.S. at 627. Moreover, it bears noting that, unlike § 922(o), the National Firearms Act does not categorically prohibit the possession of the sawedoff shotgun at issue in Miller or the firearms at issue in this case; rather, that act regulates possession of such weapons by restricting possession to those who comply with the registration and taxation requirements imposed under the act. See Miller, 307 U.S. at 175; 26 U.S.C. § 5861. Heller, because it predates Bruen, however, certainly does not say that the Second Amendment does not apply to bearable machineguns. It merely implies that restrictions on “dangerous and unusual weapons” can be consistent with this nation’s history and tradition of firearm regulation. This touches on what is now the second step of Bruen, rather than the first step. Suffice it to say that the weapons at issue in this case are bearable arms that, under Bruen’s first step, are covered by the plain text of the Second Amendment. The court thus proceeds to the second step in the analysis.

“When the Second Amendment's plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct. The government must then justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Only then may a court conclude that the individual’s conduct falls outside the Second Amendment’s unqualified command.” Bruen, 597 U.S. at 24 (quotation omitted). In Heller, the Supreme Court concluded that the Second Amendment “‘guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation’ that does not depend on service in the militia.” Bruen, 597 U.S. at 20 (emphasis added) (quoting Heller, 554 U.S. at 592). It is worth noting at the outset that the Court’s language distinguishes between possessing and carrying weapons, and that § 922(o) prohibits the mere act of possessing a machinegun, without regard to whether the weapon is carried or otherwise employed.
Defendant argues that the government cannot meet its burden to show that § 922(o) is consistent with this nation’s history of firearm regulation. (Doc. 26 at 8–9.) To meet its burden, the government advances only two potential historical analogs. First, the government points to English common law, which it asserts prohibited riding or going armed with dangerous or usual weapons. (Doc. 28 at 7 (citing 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 148– 49 (1769).) Second, the government cites one case from the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1824 that recognized an offense to arm oneself “with dangerous and unusual weapons, in such a manner as will naturally cause a terror to the people.” (Id. at 7–8 (citing State v. Langford, 3 Hawks 381, 383 (NC 1824).) But both examples are disanalogous to what Defendant is charged with here—simple possession of a machinegun.

As to the government’s first example, the Supreme Court addressed this history in Bruen. There, the Supreme Court observed that Blackstone’s reference to English laws concerning going armed with dangerous and unusual weapons derived from the Statute of Northampton, an English statute from 1328 which generally provided that

"Englishmen could not “come before the King’s Justices, or other of the King’s Ministers doing their office, with force and arms, nor bring no force in affray of the peace, nor to go nor ride armed by night nor by day, in Fairs, Markets, nor in the presence of the Justices or other Ministers, nor in no part elsewhere, upon pain to forfeit their Armour to the King, and their Bodies to Prison at the King’s pleasure.”

Bruen, 597 U.S. at 40 (citation omitted). According to the Court, “[n]otwithstanding the ink the parties spill over this provision, the Statute of Northampton—at least as it was understood during the Middle Ages—has little bearing on the Second Amendment adopted in 1791.” Id. at 41. It was focused, for the most part, on conduct that evinced an intent to breach the peace, id., and, in any event, was predicated on the manner in which arms were carried or displayed. Bruen considered an example of the application of the Statute of Northamptom to the conduct of Sir JohnKnight, who was charged with violating the statute based on allegations that he “did walk about the streets armed with guns, and that he went into the church of St. Michael, in Bristol, in the time of divine service, with a gun, to terrify the King’s subjects.” Id. at 43 (citation omitted). The Court further observed that “one’s conduct ‘will come within the [Statute of Northampton],’—i.e., would terrify the King’s subjects—only ‘where the crime shall appear to be malo animo,’ with evil intent or malice.” Bruen, 597 U.S. at 44 (internal citation omitted). And by 1716 it was observed by another learned treatise that “no wearing of Arms is within the meaning of [the Statute of Northampton], unless it be accompanied with such Circumstances as are apt to terrify the People.” Id. at 45 (alteration in original) (citation omitted). Turning to the government’s second example, it asserts merely that “n the United States, too, courts long ago acknowledged that a man commits ‘an offence at common law’ when he ‘arms himself with dangerous and unusual weapons, in such a manner as will naturally cause a terror to the people.’” (Doc. 28 at 7 (quoting State v. Langford, 10 N.C. 381, 383 (1824)).) The Supreme Court addressed this category of laws at some length in both Bruen and Rahimi, describing them as prohibitions against “going armed” or “affray,” the latter word being a term derived from a French word meaning “to terrify.” See Rahimi, 144 S. Ct. at 1900–01; Bruen, 597 U.S. at 46. Without belaboring the point, the Court observed that these laws combined the elements of going about in a manner to terrorize the public with dangerous and unusual weapons. See generally Rahimi, 144 S. Ct. 1900–01; Bruen, 597 U.S. at 46–50.

In contrast with the aforementioned historical examples, § 922(o) says nothing about the manner in which machineguns are carried or displayed. Instead, § 922(o) criminalizes the mere possession of such weapons without regard to how the possessor uses them. If an individual purchases such a weapon and locks it away in a gun safe in his basement for twenty years without touching it, he is just as guilty of a violation of § 922(o) as one who takes the same weapon out on the public streets and displays it in an aggressive manner. The statute requires no more than possession, and, more importantly in an as-applied challenge, the indictment in this case alleges nothing more.

Moreover, to the extent that the Second Amendment would allow weapons to be prohibited solely on the basis that they are “dangerous and unusual” or “highly unusual in society at large”, Bruen, 597 U.S. at 47, as the government suggests, the government has not made that showing here. As Defendant points out, “[t]here are over 740,000 legally registered machineguns in the United States today.” (Doc. 29 at 4 (citing Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Firearms Commerce in the United States – Annual Statistical Update 2021. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/report/2021-firearms-commerce-report/download).) Machineguns have been in existence for well over a century. While the federal government has regulated transfer and possession of such weapons since passage of the National Firearms Act in 1934, it did not outright prohibit possession of machineguns until passage of the Firearms Owners Protection Act in 1986. Even then, the law did not prohibit the possession of all machineguns; rather, § 922(o) merely prohibits possession of machineguns that were not lawfully possessed as of the date that prohibition went into effect in 1986. § 922(o)(2)(B). Thus, even today, it is perfectly legal for a person who has not been divested of his firearm rights under some other provision of law to acquire and possess a machinegun, so long as it was lawfully possessed by someone before the relevant date in 1986, and so long as he complies with the National Firearms Act’s requirements to obtain and possess the weapon. In that sense, machineguns are not unusual. The government fails to address these facts, and thus fails to meet its burden to demonstrate thatpossession of the types of weapons at issue in this case are lawfully prohibited under the Second Amendment.

To summarize, in this case, the government has not met its burden under Bruen and Rahimi to demonstrate through historical analogs that regulation of the weapons at issue in this case are consistent with the nation’s history of firearms regulation. Indeed, the government has barely tried to meet that burden. And the Supreme Court has indicated that the Bruen analysis is not merely a suggestion. In Vincent v. Garland, 80 F.4th 1197 (10th Cir. 2023), the Tenth Circuit side-stepped the Bruen analysis in a challenge to the prohibition against felons possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), concluding that Bruen did not abrogate the Tenth Circuit’s prior decision, United States v. McCane, 573 F.3d 1037 (10th Cir. 2009), which upheld the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) in the face of a Second Amendment challenge.. Vincent, 80 F.4th at 1202. Nevertheless, just last month the Supreme Court vacated Vincent and remanded for further consideration in light of Rahimi. Vincent v. Garland, No. 23-683, 2024 WL 3259668 (U.S. July 2, 2024). The court interprets that as indicating that the Supreme Court means what it says: the constitutionality of laws regulating the possession of firearms under the Second Amendment must be evaluated under the Bruen framework
Importantly, this decision says little about what the government might prove in some future case. Rather, under Bruen’s framework for evaluating Second Amendment challenges, it is the government’s burden to identify a historical analog to the restrictions challenged in this case. This the government has failed to do. The court expresses no opinion as to whether the government could, in some other case, meet its burden to show a historically analogous restriction that would justify § 922(o).

CONCLUSION​

The motion to dismiss on Second Amendment grounds (Doc. 26) is GRANTED. The motion to dismiss on Commerce Clause grounds (Doc. 25) is DENIED AS MOOT.

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Also the judge's last name is Broomes lmao.

 

[TV's Adam West]

So I can buy a machine gun now, right?

 

[Bunkerhousing]

So I can buy a machine gun now, right?

I wonder if fully automatic are legal now?