Even more machine guns

Oh dear.  Look what GroveAtopia found.  

Awhile back I wrote about machine guns and sandwiches.  At the time I thought that was the end of any mention of machine guns here in GroveAtopia.  But no.

Last week GroveAtopia stopped at the Albany Burgerville.  GroveAtopia loves Burgerville but will write about that in another post.  For now we must stay focused on what's important.

 As GroveAtopia was waiting for a hamburger, I  picked up a - what are those things called?  They are laminated advertisements of local businesses that sort of look like miniature newspapers and are behind the napkins on tables.  Sometimes they have them at The Vintage Inn and Pinnochios.  Anyway whatever they are called, I found disturbing news in the one at Burgerville.

And here it is:  West Coast Machine Guns is not the only machine gun shop in Oregon.

GroveAtopia apologizes for the quality of the picture in this post, but if you look closely, or if you enlarge it you will see that Northwest Firearms,  the one on 9th Ave. SW in Albany, carries "a great selection of Class III items, including suppressors, short barreled rifles (SBR' s [sic on that apostrophe]), machine guns and many other hard to find items at reasonable prices."  

West Coast Machine Guns has competition.  And boy do I hope it's a friendly one.

Now I don't want anyone anywhere to ever have a machine gun, but GroveAtopia is aware of the second amendment.  Still I hope that people realize that there is really no good reason for anyone to have one.  

And in case people don't realize it, then maybe it should be really really hard to get one.  Like if you live in Oregon and want a machine gun you have to drive all the way to Main Street in Cottage Grove to get one.  That should discourage at least some prospective machine gun seekers.  GroveAtopia took comfort in that possibility.

But it turns out Cottage Grove is not the only place that sells machine guns.  Albany does too. And probably lots of other Oregon cities.

The question is, why?