Imagine the home automation setup an S-300 battery would need. That's a lot of Raspberry Pis.

Oh God, I’m so hard right now.

This brought a tear to my eye.

Is there a legitimate reason why anti-aircraft guns are not within the scope of the 2nd Amendment? Asking for a friend.

Not just the small MANPADS, but I'm talking like a full on ZSU Shilka

Someone shop Tommy J. on a Toyota ZSU

We can, they're all just expensive.Its just a DD, which is a 200 dollar tax stamp

Honestly, even if it were legal, who would be able to afford it? It'd just mean the ultra wealthy would have even more powerful private armies. A single missile costs at least a few hundred thousand dollars, with some systems costing millions per missile. Which is unfathomably expensive when you think of what you can buy with a few million dollars.

Anti-aircraft missiles, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear SAMs, shall not be infringed.

Shadow wizard money gang (we love casting spells) LEGALISE NUCLEAR BOMBS

When are you announcing your presidential run?

No they won't, they'll miss their government paid dialysis.

If the majority of the population decided to rebel against the government they wouldn't need guns

I'm a fan of using the argument of the post, but I have given some thought to keeping civilians armed enough to combat LEO. But then they're out there buying surplus military equipment like fuck here we go, endless cycle.

Russia?

Yup.

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It definitely was. The Vietnamese kicked our asses but that's because they knew how to use their terrain to their advantage. America had not fought a true guerilla war before that time and especially not one on enemy territory.

But Joe Podunk and his huntin' guns are not going to be holed up in a foxhole surrounded by punji sticks for two weeks. Special forces would just drop a missile on his F-150 and call it a day.

Realistically the only way an American rebellion doesn't get crushed within minutes of forming is if the armed forces fracture and it blooms into a federal civil war. Then all of us are well and truly fucked much more than we are now.

The French, Russian, Chinese, and even the Vietnamese revolutions quite literally all started as dudes with rifles. American largely as well, though it did technically start with artillery, that was terrible and got fuckin rekt until the French started doing it all for us. Except, of course, for the OG Insurgent Asshole, the Swamp Fox himself, the man who saved the Revolution, who, you guessed it, fought mostly with muskets and guerilla tactics.

(Also he was a slaver, a murderer, and a rapist, just to be clear. But he was best at murderin')

You start with rifles, then get the big boy toys when you either get a national sugar daddy or murder some bootlickers in their barracks and raid the armory. Preferably both.