I never said it can only be prosecuted after a criminal act takes place. I said the exact opposite: simple possession is a serious crime, all by itself. It’s somewhat like possession of child porn, it’s inherently a serious crime, no matter the circumstances or intent.
These are a great way for a criminal to self-fail. Full-auto is auto-fail. I made it very clear in my first post, simply possessing one of these, even without attaching it to a gun or owning a gun, is a federal decade, and I clearly said, this should be prosecuted all by itself.
And it often is. And if it’s prosecuted under federal law, unlike state law, there are strict sentencing guidelines and they have to serve 85% of the sentence. Meaning that if some idiot has one of these, gets pulled over for rolling through a stop sign, and this thing is found and prosecuted, he is taken out of circulation for 8.5 years, even if he doesn’t have a gun! That’s the point I’m trying to make here, these things are a trap for the criminally stupid, and I fully support the criminally stupid suffering for their criminal stupidity.
