Welcome to the age of the printed magazine....
Not to mention very cheap to replicate, over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over.....
How do you propose to control this? BTW the rifle, is totally not effected by any Assault weapon ban.....It is a class III, and by definition, a TRUE assault rifle, and not one of the "so called" assault rifles that people want to ban.
Americans are a funny bunch...If they want it, they WILL have it. I know this well, as my kin used to be moonshiners, and we got away with it for generations.
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Vastly different circumstances that what you predict. Funny how some here say the it's the gun owners that are paranoid yet here we have someone convinced of drone missile strikes against citizens on our own soil....
I am not letting "them disarm" anyone. Simply pointing out that the major argument made by gun proponents, defense against tyranny, is bullshit. Tyranny came packaged in fear, and we fell all over ourselves building a police state.
Hell, even the NRA wants a bigger police state. They want a police force in every school in America 
The USG has abrogated 8 of the 10 rights in the Bill of Rights, and did so while letting everyone have all the guns they could eat. The government is not going to come take your guns away, and never will. Why should it stir up a docile population?
It might manage to pass a law here and there to close some of the more egregious loopholes, but the slaughter will continue, since selling guns is highly profitable.
We as a society have VOLUNTARILY surrendered our rights and established a de facto police state, all while maintaining the largest civilian arsenal in the world.
It is a dictator's dream country (although we have no dictator, just an Oligarchy to rule us).
has come and gone. When the avalanche has started it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Police states seldom occur overnight, they occur gradually, with liberties being infringed just a little and the rulers explaining why there is nothing to be worried about. "You still have all your rights, except these narrow exceptions". The exceptions get broader, and broader until the right is a finally just a legalistic fiction.
Here is the reality of today:
1) We torture people. We have lots of nice justifications for it (all false) and we refuse to call it torture (it's called "enhanced interrogation"
, but to the person subject to it, it is torture.
2) We imprison people without charge or trial. It's called Guantanamo.
3) We spy on our own people, and do so to protect people against "terrorism".
4) We seize people's property and call it "eminent domain" or the "war on drugs.
5) We compel people to incriminate themselves (see torture).
6) When we do try people, we do so based on secret evidence or witnesses who may not be cross-examined (to protect "national security assets).
7) We have arrested, tried and convicted people for assembling peacefully and petitioning government for redress of grievances (see the Occupy Movement crackdown), we have placed people on "no fly" lists for criticizing government, and we have certainly persecuted people for their religion (ask any Muslim in this country).
8) We routinely subject people to searches that, absent the "national security" justification, would constitute aggravated sexual assault. Such assaults have also been perpetrated on children.
9) We have a Supreme Court that has declared that factual innocence is not a reason to overturn a death penalty conviction (see Herrera v. Collins, 1993)
10) There are two different justice systems in the country, one for the rich, and one for everyone else.
By every reasonable definition of the term, we are a "police state". And yet, despite having the most heavily armed civilian population, there has been no "armed" rebellion against "tyranny". We have meekly swallowed the Patriot Act and law after law, decision after decision, which stripped our liberties away layer by layer.
Now we have a government with massive surveillance power and the ability to put down ANY insurrection, no matter how heavily armed, thanks to drones.
Now many of us warned folks about this over the last three decades, but we were ignored and/or called crazy.
The time for for rebellion, both peaceful or armed was any time before the Patriot Act. Not only did we accept the it as law, we renewed it several years later, and will probably keep on renewing it in the future.
Now the president claims (and exercises) the power to write your name on a list, declare you a danger to national security, and order your assassination. When I point his fact out, many people get pissed and spout all sorts of apologia to excuse/justify/deny that this is the case.
But the President writes, and people die.
Once the government has reached this point, there is no going back.
It's not hard to see the direct connection there. Look at the use of on-duty cops as bank guards paid for by the banks through the NYPD. 
A Hellfire (II) missile being the type commonly used on the Predator and Reaper platforms are fragmentation/incendiary munitions. Using these to assault a collection of flammable alcohol would result in seriously bad end for those on the receiving end. It would also likely result in a wrongful death lawsuit the scope of which would be no less than epic. Such a suit, given the munition used and activities targeted would result in what the attorneys term a "slam-dunk".
Are you kidding me? An premeditated government directed act which predictably would result in one or more US citizens being burned alive is so beyond what passes today for paranoid conspiracy thinking.
Do yourself a favor and self-delete.
I don't accept drone strikes targeting US citizens anywhere as being acceptable. Neither do I believe murder is "legal" as long we do it outside the US. I only point out these differences as being substantial distinctions from the hypothetical situation we discussed.
I suggest that, were the "revenoorers" sufficiently prejudiced against a particular 'shine maker, his hidden still probably explode due to "unsafe design and construction" and that his home may also burn due to a combination of "smoking and unsafe storage methods".
Tell me again how the Waco compound caught fire. 
..."just walking up in the daylight and knocking on the door."
That would leave out any chance of cloak/dagger, call of duty graphics and fake BS heroism not to mention leave all that money budgeted for armament with no justification.
Yeah, that would be just another Waco.
BTW, I know a guy that lived next-door to this ATF guy who who worked the post fire evidence collection task force at Waco and for the right price I can get you a picture of the missing door.
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