Originally Posted by
nevadamedic
Those are extremly illegal.
Not at all. You just need a background check, a zillion sets of fingerprints, a special tax stamp, and a $200 check for you friendly neighborhood Feds, when you buy one. And you have to wait about half a year (truth!) for them to process your application. And Gawd help you if there are any typos in your paperwork, by you or by them.
But sawing off the barrels on a shotgun that used to be long enough, THAT'S a felony that will land you in jail for a very long time. You can give the Fed a dozen clean background checks, all the fingerprints they want, and a check for two MILLION dollars, and they'll still clap you in Federal prison so fast you'll barely have time to stretch your cheeks.
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As for the missing person... when was the last time an otherwise-unremarkable ugly, balding, middle-aged fat guy went missing and wound up on national news because of it?
The present case is dreadful, as are all such. But the reporting of it is pure titillation, not "news". It's how Fox keeps their token solo liberal commentator in business - she'd be unemployed if not for missing pretty young women.
Last edited by Little-Acorn; 01-25-2008 at 11:54 AM.
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