> nobody's being oppressed from not being able to buy an ICBM or antipersonnel mines or a machine gun. Unless an oppressive adversary has such weapons (ICBMs,

> nobody's being oppressed from not being able to buy an ICBM or antipersonnel mines or a machine gun. Unless an oppressive adversary has such weapons (ICBMs, antipersonnel mines, or machine guns), wants control of your land, and decides to take it. In that situation, a country will seek to utilize such or more powerful weaponry for themselves to defend their people. If that country (1) did not manufacture such weaponry inside their borders and (2) were prevented from purchasing such weaponry from other countries by blockade, sanction, or other means, then yes, those people will be oppressed.