It’s very gratifying to me that the pro-rights community has gotten to the point where we can make serious arguments about repealing the NFA. The NFA is the main piece of legislation that regulates the manufacture, sale, ownership, and transport of a wide variety of firearms and firearm accessories. It’s the law that makes silencers such a pain in the ass to acquire legally and it, plus later legislation that “closed” the full-auto registry, are what makes it nearly impossible and prohibitively expensive for civilians to own fully automatic firearms.

Why would a civilian want to own fully automatic firearms? Well, aside from “because I want to” and “they’re a hell of a lot of fun”, there are some practical uses:

This video, done by Oleg Volk, makes what I think is a pretty compelling argument. PDWs are kind of a sweet spot in personal defensive arms. Low-power, controllable, and effective. I don’t know that they’d be my first choice for home or personal defense, but they’re a solid option and one that people should have available to them.

The pro-2A community has come along way in just a few years. I am just barely old enough to remember when the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (which, contrary to popular belief, only banned usability and cosmetic features) was enacted. My father, a serious collector and shooter, was sure at that time that we were on a one-way ticket to reading the Second Amendment out of the constitution. I’m happy to say that almost twenty years on, the old man definitely called that one wrong. The AWB has expired, two important Supreme Court cases have finally struck down the ridiculous “group rights” theory of firearm ownership and re-constituted the right to personal arms, and legal firearm ownership continues to grow.

We are winning, and I’m happy to see that, no matter how bad other aspects of liberty have gotten in this country, at least one set of rights is headed in the right direction.