somewhere around $15,000 to $20,000. it s expensive. that s why most people buy semiautomatic weapons instead, millions of them in fact. this is the ak-47. they may not be automatic, but they re still extremely popular. because of their reliability. they re also very villainized. this is what they call assault rifles. this is the type gun used in several recent mass shootings, which is why they re the ones up for debate. you ready? absolutely. depending on the magazine you use, a semiautomatic ak-47 like this one can hold up to 75 rounds and shoot up to 40 rounds per minute. move the magazine, you re good to go. i don t like the term assault rifle because it s not an assault rifle until you assault someone with it. it s a rifle. and that s really what s at the heart of the gun debate. with weapons far more powerful than the founding fathers ever imagined come new questions. should these types of weapons really be so easy to get? all right, you ready to do some wor
virginia state police has to go in there and where they use place of birth, hair color, weight. all the identifying features to separate you from that person. and that can take five minutes, two hours, a couple days. so you re looking for protection, recreational? right now just hunt deer with this rifle and try to improve my skills a little bit. never know when we might get invaded or something by china. i m arming myself against all enemies, foreign and domestic. who, i cannot tell you, because it hasn t happened. but if it happens, i m going to be ready. yeah. dylan was approved and easy as that he was able to walk out the door with his brand-new weapon, a gun capable of shooting up to 45 rounds of ammunition a minute. zombie bullets.
good shot. do you want to put the target further out? yes. or do you like where it is? in the united states, we love guns. i mean it s like in our dna. it s in our constitution, the right to bear arms, the freedom to defend ourselves. there you go. as an american, i myself own guns. when i was 12 years old, this is a true story, i was given my first rifle, a .22, that my grandfather hand-made the stock for me, gave to me as a present. and on the first di of he and i out shooting it, we were in the backyard shooting it as a target, and at some point while we were shooting at the target and walking back to where we were shooting from, my dog went and hid behind my target. and i my 12th birthday, i shot
the heart of the gun debate. with weapons far more powerful than the founding fathers ever imagined come new questions. should these types of weapons really be so easy to get? all right, you ready to do some work? we had some packages that came in this morning. let s go back here and get to work. how often does stuff come in? it comes in daily. it s like christmas around here, man. every day? every day. you re not sweating, are you? not yet. this isn t some cushy activist job. ssg is doing a lot of business on the internet. we ll show you how our jon leyne business works. nearly a quarter of the sales come from online retailers. anyone who is a licensed retailer can sell guns on the internet. yes. you can go on here and list anything from guns to gun parks to ammunition to, you know, anything you wanted. we were looking for a rifle. but it s illegal for them to ship weapons to online customers
president obama, gun sales were reaching record highs in the u.s. i wanted to know who were the people buying these guns and why were they doing it. so i figured taking a job in a gunshot would be a good place to start. how are you doing? hey, man. morgan. nice to meet you. thanks for meting me come down. i went to work for a gun retailer in fredericksburg, virginia, who specializes in class 3 firearms. class 3 guns are basically a generic turn for any guns restricted under the 1934 gun control act. which would be machine guns, silencers, short barreled rifles, and what they consider destructive devices, which any rifle over 50 caliber. couldn t any gun be a destructive device? coming around here, this is obviously our main gun area over here. a lot of people preparing for the zombie apocalypse? the zombie phenomenon has caught on big. and then the tactical shotguns, the tactical type rifles. what is the average price of a rifle? typically a good quality