CS, I agree that we should have the right. I would probably own one because they are fun to shoot more than anything.
I was down in Eugene a couple of years ago and stopped at an indoor range where for a fee you can shoot a handgun. The group I was with all did so but having a number of handguns and shooting them a lot I did not.
After everyone was outfitted and banging away I remarked on the Thompson machinegun on the wall not realizing it was available to shoot. Well I had that loaded up in record time!
Anyway, it was a whole lot of fun to shoot, surprisingly heavy, surprisingly accurate on semi auto, and a handful on full auto.
The point here is that, for me, in a defense application this firearm would be most useful in semiauto mode. Auto just empties too fast. And on semi I can hit things fairly well.
