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There is one particular US citizen that owns a private fleet of ICBMs. Those missiles are typically used to do things like launch low-cost satellite internet a
by qball 2y ago
There is one particular US citizen that owns a private fleet of ICBMs. Those missiles are typically used to do things like launch low-cost satellite internet and ferry astronauts to and from the ISS; but the only difference between those missiles and the ones intended to make an arbitrary chunk of the Earth explode is a matter of programming the flight computers slightly differently.
Provided you pay the taxes you can own pretty much whatever you want (even in countries less free than the US); all you have to do is be fabulously wealthy. (Or in the NFA's case, pay a 200 dollar transfer tax.)
- throwanem 2y agoThe NFA seems to do a good enough job limiting what it regulates. We discuss law, not code or science; as in any human endeavor, even theoretical perfectibility is impossible to achieve and dangerous to pursue. If you mean to suggest the same law should regulate both you and I, and men with all the power and armament of a James Bond movie villain, I refer you to my prior statement, and to the final argument of a king who wishes to remain so.