"Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range."
"Hey, just what ya see, pal."
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lol no. Maybe in the past but now there's a background check and often a mandatory waiting period before you can just walk out with a gun.
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No. That wouldn't happen in a gun store.
You'd have to go to a gun show.
Edit: a gun show is like comic con, only for guns.
I mean Terminator 1 takes place in 1984. As far a quick search goes, there were no background checks, no assault weapon ban, no waiting period, ..etc
Background checks started in '68, they didn't become instant until like '93 because internet but they still existed, I think it was by phone back then. The rest of that isn't around now either except for some states, the national AWB expired 21yr ago, and there's never been national waiting periods.
Background checks started in '68, they didn't become instant until like '93 because internet but they still existed
They may have existed and some states imposed them but they weren't required federally until the Brady bill in '93 .
there's never been national waiting periods.
There was a 5 day waiting period required nationally between when the Brady bill was first enacted in '93 and when the national instant criminal background check system came online in '98
Huh no shit TIL about that waiting period, thanks! I can't look it up until later (at work, can fire off a message but not do research y'know) but would you happen to know how long it lasted?
Though the questionnaires in the 60s were largely ineffective and took time, unless I am mistaken they were stored by the FBI until the ATF started existing in the early 70s, but yes "NICs" wasn't until "I" was possible as I mentioned.
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I think you could still buy machine guns. No phased plasma rifles though.
Hey pal, only what you see here.
What, not even one in the 40-watt range?
It's really difficult to buy them even now.
The process is quite simple. It's just the prices...
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Private sales are private sales. Has nothing to do with gun shows, that shit is just ignorance from anti-2a groups/people. The pro2a people have been asking for access to the NICS for years. Even if we had to pay $10 for a BG check to come back as clear or not, but they don't want that because it takes away from their wedge issue.
even as a foreigner, it is clear to me that gun-wary Americans tend not to be anti-2a, but want background checks and gun limits. Maybe politicians fit your narrative, especially Democrats, but if you are talking about citizens you are likely straw-manning.
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but they don’t want that because it takes away from their wedge issue.
Who is "they" in this case?
Republicans and Democrats. They both require wedge issues to keep us divided and easily steered.
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A reminder this was during a time period we all collectively agreed to ignore Arnold's accent for narrative purposes.
My theory, at least for purposes of The Terminator, is that after Judgment Day, there were some human holdouts in Austria who sent troops to help fight Skynet, so that's why an Austrian accent would be assigned to an infiltration unit.
I have nothing to say about Terminator 3. That was like three or four timeline modifications later. There's bound to be some reality degradation.
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Total fiction. Everyone knows you have to go to a unlicensed seller at a gun show in the majority of states for that, not a gun store
unlicensed seller at a gun show
Says people who have never been to a gun show. Find me ONE table that's unlicensed.
There's one gun show near me that allows private sellers to register for a table. The only time I've ever seen it is people in a historic items collectors club that show up, and I've only ever seen one with a gun to sell that was in working order and manufactured post-1899. He wanted $5,000 for a beat up m1917 Enfield. I don't know whether he was stupid, or looking for someone else who was.
Tbf, some states allow private sellers at gun shows, some don't, some shows in states that do allow it won't allow it themselves, etc. It's kinda a mixed bag leaning more towards "mostly FFLs."
My local has both, for instance.
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It doesn't have to be a gun show, can be anywhere. I've legally purchased a handful of guns in random parking lots.
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It was when I was younger. At 16, I was able to walk into a local gun shop and buy two boxes of 9mm ammo. Shop owner didn't seem to care at all, so my friend (17) went back in weeks later to buy a .22 pistol.
No ID. No anything.
Thankfully, things have changed since then.
Changed for the better, right?
Better for sure, now kids can buy assault rifles /s
M16chan!
Definitely not, no 3rd pinhole and it's got the CA neutered grip, just a regular old AR-15kun.
UZI NINE MIDDIMETER
PHAZE PLASMA RIFLE IN THE 40 WATT RANGE
America? Probably (dunno what guns laws are like Bolivia or the other American countries). The US America? Definitely!
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