Thread: extent of the right to bear arms in US

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    I think you'll find a large number of older, and not so old military aircraft are in private hands.

    I remember going to see a display by "The Confederate AirForce" in Tampa about 15 years ago. Fighters, bombers...

    At a display in England about 10 years ago, 13 Spitfires flew, all but one of them, provately owned. On the same program, a privately owned MIG 21 fighter was displayed, and another was being offered for sale in the static park.
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    I think it's very simply NO, and it's supposed to happen just think of it!
    DavidP, maybe you will think about buying ballistic Missiles.
    I don't know hohw you came up with this idea

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    13 Spitfires flew, all but one of them, provately owned. On the same program, a privately owned MIG 21 fighter was displayed, and another was being offered for sale in the static park.
    hmm....i bet they werent armed though....

    and i bet they cost a lot too...one brand new fighter jet cost like 25 million bucks for the government...(i think, i am not completely sure about that, correct me if i am wrong)...

    of course, if you did buy one of those older fighter jets that adrianxw was talking about, and they were disarmed, you could always use your computer programming, engineering, and technical skills to mount a pistol or two...haha...think about that...an old fighter jet with mounted pistols...
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    i think what our ancestors meant by "The right to bare arms" is the right to keep our Arms-the limbs on our body, i mean, what would we do with out them!!

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    The Mig 21 up for sale by a private owner on ebay was up to around $230,000. It came with rocket pods, minus rockets of course. Here is the link. To bad the bidding is over.

    Owning machine guns and explosives isn't impossible, you just need the proper permits from the BATF. It helps not to live in ceratin states that prohibit them outright, CA/NY come to mind if I am not mistaken. Silencers/suppressors are also legal with the proper paperwork.

    The most likely problem you would face with owning a fully armed jet would be when you tried to fly it anywhere, especially if it was out of sate, or out of country. You need special permits just to take a [edit]machinegun[/edit] down the road when you go to the shooting range. I can't imagine the paperwork needed for an armed jet.
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    Did you notice the MIG 21 seller at e-bay had negotiated supersonic rights at test ranges, can't remember where they all were but I think from Edwards was one.
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    My first gun was an old Winchester rifle I got on my 9th birthday. When I was a teenager, I had several rifles and two handguns. Now I just have a single handgun and that old Winchester. I have never had to use one in self defense, but I'm glad I have them nonetheless. For one, they're our heritage and culture. Second, at least where I live, being shot in a holdup is common enough to warrant it (those killed are usually unarmed).

    Jets, of course are not covered in the constitution, and that's fine with me. The way I see it, if someone were after me in an F-16, I'd probably do better off on the ground than in a dog-fight, anyway.
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