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by bigyabai 1 day ago
My position is that anyone can own a cannon and shells, but you only get to fire it once before the feds step in.

Giving a naval cannon to the average person does not threaten humanity any more than giving them a gun or an LLM does. None of them are a panacea for anything.

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It seems completely unhinged for civilians to have naval guns. You could level an entire neighborhood with one of those.
It's also completely unhinged to own a Shahed 136 or a ballistic missile, but both are fairly attainable and even legal within certain usages.
I don’t know what you mean man people obviously don’t own personal tomahawk missiles and that sort of thing. If you have a Shahed loaded with explosives on your property you will probably have to deal with LE
A mass shooter wakes up in the morning and thinks: "I'll fire my naval gun once, then politely hand it to the feds..."
I imagine that he'd be pulled over by the cops towing his artillery into battle, first.
On what grounds? You just said everyone should be allowed to own artillery.