It alarms me how many people I have to explain this to, especially when visiting family in/from California or New York.
No, you cannot just run out and buy a “machine gun”. You cannot just legally purchase a full auto firearm of any kind here in the USA. They are restricted, as are short barreled shotguns. You have to jump through a fair amount of hoops to buy one, and then once you do, a full-auto rifle ain’t cheap. They usually cost five to ten times what their semi-auto versions run for. Tip to the non-gun literate.
Unless, ya know…ya just make yer own.
Just kidding, ATF. 😉
Depending on what device you have in mind, this can be fully legal as well… just not for automatic fire. The short barreled lists and destructive devices lists are still open.
My brother-in-law (born and raised in Boston, lived in Callyfernya for about 20 years before moving to AZ) accompanied me to a gun shop a few months ago. Said shop is Class III. BIL was shocked, SHOCKED I say, to see a SIG P226 with a threaded barrel and a
silencersuppressor in the glass-front cabinet. “You mean just ANYONE can walk in and buy a silencer here?!”*sigh*
Personally, I find the “OMG SILENCERS YOU ARE GONNA GO ASSASSIMANATE SOMEBODY!!!” mentality quite silly.
I have yet to fire a gun inside a house, and would hate to do it without a suppressor.
Safety first, you know.
This.
Do you honestly think that you’re going to grab your firearm *and* a set of earpro before you go see what went “bump” in the middle of the night? What about your roommate? What about your spouse? What about your children? What about your houseguests? It’s not just *your* ears that you’re saving.
That’s why I’m waiting for a number of tax stamps at the moment, and that’s what I tell people when they ask about suppressors.
This is why I fully accept that in the event of a home invasion, I’m going to suffer further hearing damage. Fuck it. I’m okay with that, if it means I can drop my attacker more easily using .357 mag.
See, that’s why I liked the .38
I suffered no hearing damage from that, as far as I know. Yet it did the job quite well.
Funny, at the time, I didn’t hear it at all.
… did anyone else hear theme music to this post?
agreed they either get the .38 or the broadsword, whichever i can reach first “you come into my house in peace …or leave in pieces..your choice” BTW loved the santa’s septic tank line in the last two lumps update LOL
And reduce the chances to successfully defend your home a second time? If you permanently damage your hearing by successfully dropping your first invader, the potential next one may have an easier time if you can’t hear him as well. That’s not a good idea, J!
Psst! I already have hearing damage!
I’m sorry to hear that, pun not intended. 🙁
WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?
My hearing damage isn’t horrible. I have tinnitus something fierce. Every time I lay my head down, in a silent room, I hear a very strong, high-pitched whine. This has been true for the last 17 years. Too many times at the range in my teens, too many times hunting, with no hearing protection. Too many loud concerts, too many nights at nightclubs where the music was skull-shattering loud. I have a hard time hearing higher ranges of sound, and sometimes have to ask my friends to repeat themselves. I’m not deaf at all – but my hearing has suffered some major damage.
No regrets, really. We all go deaf in old age. I’m just ahead of the curve.
Regret is supposed to be a learning tool.
I’m realy sorry to hear–er, read this.
Having watched my mother’s and grandmother’s connection with the world degenerate due to deafness (in addition to daftness, in the case of the former, but whatever), I’m in no hurry to give up and give in to that.
Didn’t your gen know to cram napkin wads in your ears during a loud night out? Hell, I still do that even in the movies.
If it’s too loud for that to help, maybe it’s too loud to be there. Move back?
Can you still hear hummingbirds, or bats?
GOOD POINT!
TBH, I do keep a set of electronic muffs on the nightstand right next to the gun vault thingy. But I sleep on a hair trigger, pun most definitely intended, and go from my usual nightmares to Condition Red several times a night anyway. :/
Having fired the full auto, I can say that I prefer semi.
But, yeah there is a misconception through much of the world that you can just walk into any gun shop in the USA (which are of course at every street corner), buy a machine gun and bazooka, with no question asked. Not to mention that the Texas is synonymous with Wild West style, trigger happy gun paradise/hell.
Firing an M-16 or an M-4 full auto is fun but useless in a fire fight. Although it is total hard on material. The main issue being it dumps the mag way too fast plus the barrel isn’t meant for that level of wear and heat.
Was rather surprised how easy it was to convert from burst to full auto the first time I did it.
“Useless”? Somebody really should tell—every military organization anywhere.
Actually most people who know what they are doing prefer semi. Due to the fact that controllability is a major factor. One shot place properly beats ten that go over there head due to spray and pray. Full auto is only useful for fire suppression and even then a semi will function better due the fact that in full your just going to run out of ammunition faster.
Actually 3 round burst is pretty useful with the M4. More chances to hit an organ the bad guy will want later… Little bit of muzzle rise so aim low and you’re on target. Granted with the standard 30 rd magazine, that’s 10 trigger pulls and a mag switch. I’d also want FA for things like an MP5, because the little pistol rounds actually have to hit the organ or other important bits more precisely to shut them down. Sounds good to say One Shot One Kill, but in a panic it’s much harder to aim with adrenaline pumping. And while people may be able to hit a paper target on the range, that does not translate to hitting a person coming at you.
Studies done by the U.S. Army found that usually only the first 2-3 rounds hit when firing fully automatic from an assault rifle. Thus the adoption of 3-round burst. Full-auto has its place (thus the existence and deployment of SAWs and SMGs), but it was decided some time ago that you neither need nor want every soldier to have it.
As for civilians? I’d love to push for legalizing 3-round burst while leaving full-auto illegal. Full-auto is what scares people, and, as noted above, it’s not all that effective for actually hitting a target anyway. I suspect the average citizen is not much more scared of three rapid bangs than of one. I’m sure the media would try to spin it in a negative light, but I’m not really sure how you make it scary when it sounds like it’s capable of less than they’ve been spinning “assault weapons” as to begin with. Meanwhile, we’d get defensive weapons that work the way they were designed: 3 small-caliber rounds giving good stopping power with minimal recoil and one trigger pull.
I wonder what 3 round burst would be like on a .22 WMR pistol…
The 3-round burst M16 fire control group was an attempt to substitute hardware for training. It was a bad idea then, and it’s a bad idea now.
As far as legalizing limited automatic fire, I think it would be far easier to just repeal the 1986 Hughes ban.
My father was involved in some of the development of the M16. One of the things he laughed about was the problem they had with experienced riflemen and the 3-round burst, when it was brought out.
The experienced riflemen were getting on and off the trigger so fast taht they’d frequently only fire two rounds. The next time they fired, the counter hadn’t reset, so they only got one round. 2,1,2,1,2… It was making the riflemen crazy.
Since you guys have experience with it. How is it to use burst weapons? Is it that you pull the trigger once and the gun fires three rounds or do you pull the trigger and hold it down to fire 3 rounds?
Yes. But there’s a fair amount of daylight between “prefer” and “useless”. 🙂
The typical “Full auto is useless!” argument.
With an MP5, I can dump 30 rounds of 9mm into a target 25 yards away far faster, and with accuracy that I consider acceptable, than I can with a pistol. At 15 yards it’s no contest: I can dump the mag into stationary target and still have an acceptable group. The same is largely true of every MG I’ve used that fired a pistol or intermediate rifle caliber.
If I had to defend my home from a criminal invasion, I’d rather have an MP5 or an M4 (Preferably chambered for .300 blk) than a pistol.
Let me make myself a bit clearer, full auto on an M-16 M-4 is useless. Full auto on a weapons platform designed around it is a proper lifesaver in a firefight and I owe my life to my SAW gunner.
All of this of course is my opinion based on my experience.
That’s why you’re supposed to fire in short controlled bursts.
Outside of SOME legitimate military uses, for the most part, NFA guns, whether in the hands of civilian collectors OR LAW ENFORCEMENT, amount to little more than extremely expensive toys. Expensive to seek, expensive to feed.
For civilian self defense they would be an extremely unwise choice – if a prosecutor is going to say Zimmerman purchased his pistol out of an overriding desire to shoot someone after shooting an attacker once, what is that prosecutor going to say about the defendant that mag-dumps 30 or 40 rounds into his attacker in the space of a couple seconds?
While law enforcement seems immune to that determination, they far too often shoot first and ask questions later. If a nervous or inexperienced LEO pumps a single round into a suspect then realizes it’s not a “good legal shoot”, there is at least some hope the injured party may live, but if the same trigger-happy LEO blasts granny with half a MP5 magazine for brandishing a baby, the outcome for both victim and LEO/LEA will be much darker.
The legitimate usages of a full-auto weapon are suppressive fire, and en masse when facing a similarly armed force in a combat situation. – Both being uses seldom called for in law enforcement. Certainly there is an intimidation factor in brandishing a FA weapon as well, but in my opinion, intimidation should not be viewed as a proper tactic for police agencies.
That being said, they are really great toys…
You state your belief that NFA-regulated firearms only have legitimate uses for military personnel, and then you go on to spend three paragraphs talking about machineguns.
While I’ll grant that you raise valid concerns about the possible criminal ramifications of using a machinegun for self-defense, it’s important to note that the NFA regulates far more than just machineguns.
Short-barreled rifles/shotguns are certainly valid tools to use for self-defense, especially in the tight confines of a house/apartment, and especially by those smaller in stature. The same can be true of AOW-class firearms.
Even more than SBR/SBS/AOW, the suppressor is the single most important tool for self-defense, especially inside the home: the last thing I want to do is piss off the judge because I can’t hear him when I’m trying to defend myself in court after a DGU…..
Somehow, the leadership of the NRA agreed with the liberal position that FA was dangerous in the hands of the general populace and allowed the restrictive ownership legislation. NRA leadership has been flagellating itself since. The problem is that dangerous unrestricted weapons appeal to dangerous unguided people. I think that bootleg automatic weapons is the reason that you can’t find 22LR.
Are you talking about NFA ’34? Did the NRA even see that go by? According to Kukla’s book, the NRA was caught flatfooted by the 1960s’ gun control movement, still having no political/lobbying arm, and still being run by and for Fudds.
Five to ten times as expensive as a normal AR? WHERE!?! Where are these cheap ass full-auto rifles sold, I need one! 😉 Last I looked 10-20 is more likely.
If you have the money, you can go out and PAY for a machinegun today. See you in about a year to pick it up.
Last I checked, current NFA wait times were quoted as 9-15 months.
This whole proposed rule 41P thing is driving people to start TONS of form 4 transactions… If only they were commenting on the proposed rule change…
I put in my comment early on. Not that expect it will be heard or do any good. Still, can’t sit there and do nothing.
If you look at the website of the VPC, they intentionally use ‘Assault weapon’ to confuse people. The openly admit it. Then there’s the ‘Al Queda manual’ which wasn’t that claimed you could easily buy machineguns here. Deception is the only way they can push their agenda.
NFA — Lots of fun, but basically a really fast way to turn money into noise.
Richard D. Winters commented at the end of his biography that someone in his unit showed him how to make the M1 Garand fire full auto (as in, how to modify it). Brr. Can’t imagine how much that would buck and kick!
Gun-ignorant here. Aren’t all semi-auto rifles equipped with a “burst fire” mode? Three or four bullets in a burst?
(Yes, I know this idiot wants complete auto AKA “fire till the ammo’s gone” mode, and isn’t gonna get it. Was just curious about his remark that just one shot was fired with each pull).
cheers,
Phil
No, no semi automatic rifle sold today has a 3 round burst. Actually a rifle with a 3 round burst is considered fully automatic as it discharges more then one bullet with a single pull of the trigger.
Negative. Hence SEMI-auto. Burst is still auto. Just restricted auto.
Funny. There are no suppressors in this house. I can see the appeal, and I wouldn’t mind having a deer gun with a legal suppressor, as they are now legal to hunt with now in OK. I like my shotguns with a barrel length of 20 to 24 inches, for the right velocity, spread, and maneuverability. If I want a rifled barrel less than 14 inches, I’m reaching for a handgun. SBSs and SBRs are neat in their own way, but I don’t personally need one. “You cannot just legally purchase a full auto firearm of any kind here in the USA.” It’s a damned shame too. I’d love to have a fun switch on my AR, but it would not get much use because of the expense of ammunition. If I could get an auto sear for the fair cost of material and labor, and even with the $200 tax stamp for that matter, I probably would, but I wouldn’t use it often. It’s simply not worth the $10,000+ that such things command because of the current regulations, which is the way the politicians like it. I’ll leave this video for your review http://youtu.be/r2HYW3oLArE. Full auto is fun, but it’s way out of the budget of most of us peons, and that’s wrong. This is why we can’t give an inch on further gun control. I want my damned cake back! http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2013/11/08/cake-and-compromise-illustrated-guide-to-gun-control/
I have to wonder just what have we accomplished with registration and regulation of full-auto firearms and suppressors? IMO nothing positive.
Well, the history of the NFA of 1934 does go back to the fact that gangsters were in the habit of shooting up large portions of Chicago and New York with fully automatic weapons. Since the 1934 act, that has never happened since in either city. In fact, both are paragons of gun control paradise, where nary a harsh word is spoken by the now peaceful denizens of the impoverished sections of both cites.
Oh, wait, that’s complete and utter bullshit. Just like any *law* that is designed to deprive one of the ability to defend oneself. The reason that I don’t support any more regulation of anything 2A is that its much like being Chamberlin to Hitler prior to WW2. Appeasement never works. No matter how much you voluntarily give up, the enemy will not be satisfied till they have everything – and most of the anti 2A folks will admit as such, if not public ally that their main goal is the total regulation and control (i.e. removal) of all firearms. Don’t have links handy, but google around for comments from the Brady folks, etc. It’s not just “gangster” guns they want removed, it’s all of em.
$.02
To further pile onto what you’ve said, it’s self-evident to most that the REASON Chicago got swiss-cheesed back in the day was alcohol prohibition. I can’t imagine how we’ve learned so little in the past 80 years that we’re still trying out prohibitions, today.
there seems to be a vocabulary misconception as well. the news/media says “semi auto” and people conjure up images of the terminator pumping lead into his hundreds of enemies.
The problem is that he *did* buy an “assault weapon”, a made-up term by the gun-banners, that mostly means, a semi-auto firearm that looks otherwise identical to a full-auto weapon (which is also called an “assault rifle”, so we’re gonna call it something similar to confuse the ignorant masses). I’ve had to explain to friends, my US-legal AK is semi-auto only, but in EVERY news story about any “assault weapon” being used in a crime, the news channel brings out the B-roll of full-auto guns being fired, either on a range or in combat, which I think they intentionally do to confuse the ignorant masses.
As a native New Yorker, I foam at the mouth every time that phrase is uttered. I am then forced to make whoever used it define the term and educate them.
And yes. They intend to confuse and scare people. Scared sheep bunch together and go where they’re told.
It truly amazes me how often people think that an AR-15, or AK sold from a shop is full auto. Part of the problem is the way the media and politicians opposed to guns portray them. They call them assault weapons, and show video of full auto AK’s and M16’s. They use terms to confuse the masses. They flat out scream that they shoot HUNDREDS OF ROUNDS A MINUTE in an obvious attempt to make them seem like machine guns.
There are three laws that need to be repealed. NFA(National Firearms Act) 1936 restricted the use of these military weapons. GCA(Gun Control Act) of 1968 Which restricted interstate commerce importation and transfers, as well as multiple ammunition types, explosives, and a number of other things(This is why you can’t buy a rocket launcher, well FUNCTIONING rockets for that rocket launcher). And the creatively named FOPA(Firearms Owner’s Protection Act) 1986 which actually did more to restrict people’s LEGAL ownership of guns restricted under the NFA by not issuing new tax stamps.
Machine guns were legally sold with a tax stamp as late as 1986. We civilians cannot purchase any that were manufactured or imported after FOPA ’86. For those that are unfamiliar, a machine gun(by US legal definition) is any firearm that fires more than one round per trigger pull. The reason it’s so expensive to get them is the supply is nearly non-existent of legally transferable machine guns. The less expensive ones are usually ONLY for Police and military. And yet, with the restrictions in place, the North Hollywood Shootout had people firing illegally imported fully automatic AK’s from a country we were specifically prohibited from importing…
Suppressors are rather interesting. We see in the movies that people fire these things and they have the volume of a cat farting. In the UK it’s actually legal to have a suppressor on your hunting rifle. Actually it’s considered quite rude to hunt without one. They reduce the volume of the firearm, but don’t make it super quiet like the movies(Gosh movies get it wrong? Never). I would like them just so it’s quiet enough not to need hearing protection.
I nitpick only one tiny detail:
No, suppressed pistols don’t make kitten fart noises. They still go bang. EXCEPT: a couple years back for my birthday, we went out and played with a bunch of legally obtained Class III and suppressed weapons.
The Ruger MKIII, .22 LR, with a good suppressor, goes “click.” Like a staple gun. You hear the bullet whistle away, you hear it impact the target, you hear the brass go “ping” as it ejects, but of the explosion itself, you hear NOTHING. It sounds like a staple gun. Click, click, click.
Got to play with a fully-suppressed M-16A4 whilst it was in development (having connections is a good thing! 😉 ). And when I say “suppressed” I mean I could hear the recoil spring moving whilst I was firing. That’s the only time I’ve ever fired what I might actually term a ‘silencer.’
For various reasons that experienced shooters on the Dev team found good and sufficient that experimental suppressor wasn’t moved forward.
First, the FOPA was *not* an anti-gun bill; in fact, quite the opposite. The only aspect that is really anti-gun is the Hughes amendment, which Rep Hughes from NJ managed to get tacked onto the bill as a “poison pill.”
That being said, the FOPA was a VERY important piece of legislation; It rolled back much of the 1968 GCA, and without it our current shooting culture wouldn’t be possible.
As far as machineguns go, it’s also important to understand that there are TWO key dates for machinegun ownership by us plebians: Everyone knows that the Hughes Amendment to the FOPA of 1986 banned non-government possession of machineguns registered after May 19th 1986, but not everyone knows that importation of machineguns for sale to non-government agencies was banned by the GCA of 1968. This is what “presamples” are: they are machineguns that were imported between the effective dates of the GCA and the FOPA.
As far as suppressors go, I personally believe that they should be entirely deregulated, and sold over-the-counter.
@HSR47: Indeed. We are required to have mufflers on our cars, why do I have to go through a bunch of (expensive) hoops to buy a muffler for my rifles? Requiring the tax stamp adds $200 and an unneccesary wait time to something that should probably cost under $400 tops. The fines and time spent at Club Fed make building my own muffler (they are rather simple devices, after all) rather unattractive if the BATFE were to catch me.
In addition, people having full auto stuff they made themselves? Did people forget what happened to David Olofson? All he had was a broken AR-15, and look what that got the poor bugger. (The BATFE has been known to prosecute and ruin people lives for having information on how to convert a 10/22 to full auto and a semi-auto rifle of the same model under the same roof, for bog’s sake.)
@ Tommycat, RE: Moderators in the UK.
In the UK (I’m British), silencers/moderators are an issue the shooters are slowly winning with the PTB.
In law owning a silencer is no more controversial than a rifle, but if it’s detachable from the rifle it’s linked with, it needs its own numbered entry on your license.
When you first apply for a license, you ask for empty “slots” on the license that can be filled by firearms of a certain type (calibre and action). You then have to justify the “good reason” to own each item to a senior policeman in your district. Being a member of a target rifle club is a “good reason”, as is having a written invitation to stalk deer on a private moor-land estate. Sadly I have heard of stubborn policemen on the licensing-desk tell an accomplished target shooter, who wanted to go after deer as well, that he “didn’t need a second 7.62x51mm bolt-action, as he already had one” and deny the creation of a new blank line on the guy’s license. The argument that the high precision target rifle was too delicate an instrument to take hiking about the woods was a lost cause.
Owing to senior policemen in each local district making up their own policies, there was an era (circa. 1975-1995) when many territorial police forces simply wouldn’t grant a license slot for a moderator/suppressor. Thankfully the system is more open today.
In the last 15 years, there has been a growing view the moderators/suppressors are a health and safety advantage, and the licensing policemen are now concerned that they could be complained against for denying a shooter a piece of safety equipment while the go about their lawful target shooting. Certainly if everyone in a range complex is shooting suppressed, it stops the range getting complained about by its neighbours (we’re a more crowded island than the US is (as a continent)). Moderators/suppressors are being increasingly seen on indoor ranges, and also for “vermin- destruction” (e.g. shooting rats in a grain-barn).
However, I haven’t ever heard of their use in stalking after “sporting game” (usually deer of various species). I would need to check the books before I said it was legal to take deer with a suppressed rifle (this is compounded by England-&-Wales, and Scotland having two different legal systems.).
I’m not usually very persuasive, but after Sandy Hook, I got into an argument with one of my more liberal minded friends. He wants to come shooting with me in the worst way but he’s got some weird guilt complex over it, believes people should only own revolvers, etc. Anyway, after a few minutes he says “But what would you even do with a machine gun, Anon?”, and I realize he’s using it synonymously with “assault rifle”. So I explain very briefly about class 3 weapons and tell him that machine guns haven’t been sold in this country since the 80s (which is close enough to true), and he gets genuinely curious and asks “Then what makes it an assault rifle?” “The way you hold it.”, I relied, and he agreed that was retarded. It was a good moment.
Congratulations on helping somebody see through the stupidity of basing laws on appearance and FUD.
Also, I love the “only own revolvers” thing every time I hear it. Apparently, it’s ok if it goes bang every time you pull the trigger as long as the cartridges are in a circle instead of a straight line.
Why would anyone need a car with a 350HP engine? My old, heavy & not very aerodynamic Benz (300SDL) will still be accelerating as I exceed the maximum speed limit anywhere in the country with an engine rated at only 150HP 25 years ago. There should be special licensing and background checks for anyone who wants something more powerful!
Whilst full-auto firearms are expensive and annoying to purchase, if you’re willing to jump through those hoops, you can spend a bit (lot!) more, and purchase an anti-aircraft cannon. The hoops are essentially the same, save that each round of ammunition qualifies as a seperate destructive device…
I’ve had to explain the whole “Semi and full auto aren’t the same” thing almost every time I tell a new person I even OWN guns. The upside: They usually get curious, want to go to the range, and within a month they’re my latest competition in seeking out Yugo 7.62x54r…
Personally, and this is me talkin’ out of my butt here….I hope that MGs never become easily accessible. HEAR ME OUT….
So, my personal “Ferrari Dream” (read: “If you get it, it’ll RUIN you”) gun is the MG-42. Last I saw one, it was $30k or so…and that was two Presidential elections ago. Just the initial buy-in is the same as most luxury sedans. From here, you factor in extra barrels (most LMGs need those, by the way), belts (plural, lots of them, they disintegrate, and you’ll NEVER find all the links), any other parts that might need replacing (ALWAYS check springs on a formerly issued military weapon that has no sign of recent refurbish)….and then you hit ammo.
Going by memory, if I recall, the MG-42 goes through something to the tune of 1,600 RPM of 8mm Mauser. That’s a comma, not a decimal. She sounds like tearing cloth. As to the caliber, this wouldn’t be AS huge a problem, say, ten years ago, when I first started buying guns for myself, and I was able to get spam cans and even CRATES of the stuff for reasonable prices. THESE days, my happy self is lucky to find enough to keep my bolt-action fed. So, here’s what I want you to visualize: A caliber you can barely find anymore, and your 50-round belts are vanishing in the time it takes you to sneeze. You’re burning a small crate of ammunition per hour, and likely having to change barrels after each belt.
…but every minute of bankrupting yourself like this, is totally awesome, and fun, and should Civil War II ever happen, you are TOTALLY your town’s Hero of the Day.
OK, I see your point but how many people do you know of who actually bought a gun on the basis of that assumption? Seriously I’d like to hear that story? But if to your knowledge that’s never happened than why did you frame this point this way why not just have Mick explain it to someone he encountered outside the shop?
I have many friends who work in gun stores. This strip was based on a true story of someone who demanded a refund on their AK because “It wasn’t shooting right”.
In addition to Jales’ example, here’s one I saw a few months ago at my LGS: coupla dudes wanted to rent a Glock 18. They knew that the shop had them, goddammit, their friends rent them here alla damn time. When the range guys and the store manager said their friends were full of shit, that there were no full-auto guns of any kind in this shop and even if they did have them they surely wouldn’t rent them, homeboy triumphantly pointed to the AR-15s on the wall and said “Then what the fuck is THEY?”
Dudes were invited to leave. Now, please. No, NOW.
It´s a sad thing when i, as a Eurpean, understand more about US gunlaws than many Americans. Now i´m not claiming perfect knowledge, and i know many Europeans actualy belive you can just walk into a Wallmart and buy an M60 with underslung M203 and a Phased Plasma rifle in the 40 watt range, but it´s still sad.
Considering where you’re hanging out, I’m not at all surprised you’re clued-in. Dunno if the knowlege came first, or the hanging out bit, but whatever – you’re One Of Us. 😀
Warms my heart that does. Hope you don´t mind me being on the liberal side on most other things. 🙂