You always hear about gun sales in the US, but you never hear about what happens to the guns at the end of their lifecycle. I assume guns wear out eventually, and I assume you can’t just chuck them in the garbage when they do. What happens to them?
You always hear about gun sales in the US, but you never hear about what happens to the guns at the end of their lifecycle. I assume guns wear out eventually, and I assume you can’t just chuck them in the garbage when they do. What happens to them?
Huh. Cool. I didn’t realise the US had laws about stuff like that. Always just assumed if you could legally buy it it’s yours to do what you want with. 2nd(?) amendment and all that jazz.
Our gun laws are more permissive than most, if not all, places, but they still exist and are an absolute mess.
Federal laws define anything under a 16" barrel as a short barreled rifle- SBR. That’s a colossal no-no and a felony. That is enforced.
The other big thing is that one trigger pull = one round fired. If it breaks that rule, or fires from an open bolt the ATF considers it a machine gun and those are pretty tightly restricted. You can’t manufacture more machine guns for the civilian market, they have to be grandfathered in from before they were banned.
There’s tons more whacky Federal stuff- like how they treat suppressors. Federal laws have nothing on state laws though. Man does that get confusing when your gun is absolutely fine in Nevada but is a turbo-crime in California. God forbid you bring a thumbhole stock into California. And then there’s concealed carry permits- a lot of places it’s illegal to carry a handgun concealed with a permit. But the permits are all state issued and whether they’re valid in other states is entirely fucking random.
TL;DR: we get a lot of shit for having lax gun laws- and we do- but they definitely exist and navigating them can be a gigantic pain.
Hooooo boy. There’s a lot you can’t do. If you have a rifle (that uses a ‘rifle’ round as opposed to a pistol round), your barrel must be over a certain length. But if you have a “rifle” that is chambered in say 9mm (a pistol round), doesn’t matter. Barrel could be 4 inches long. But then it can’t have a stock. So you have a “wrist brace” (read:totally not a stock I promise) instead. There’s a bunch of wacky shit the atf and congress have come up with.