My colleague is an expert witness who defends people in justifiable homocides all over the country.
According to him, there is always some dickweed DA making a big deal out of ammo selection, weapons or weapons accessories. It depends on personal politics, if you are antigun, you aren't going to take it to kindly when someone kills an intruder with a weapon you don't think they should be able to own, now you have your chance to make that opinion known, hell maybe even set some type of precidnet. I sincerely doubt any lawyer, including one from Austria, has poured over every line of court transcripts from every justifiable homocide in the country. I didn't say anything about convictions...think of it like a balancing act. You start out even, or slightly behind and
circumstances may turn the scales against you, ending up with an endightment for capital murder, or murder 2. Weapon choice or similar, MAY be just one thing too many in the mind of a juror, especially if they can't fathom why anyone should be allowed to own weapons like this...and, we are the minority. The people who would outlaw assault weapons and NFA ownership outnumber "us" probably 100 to 1, at least. They would pitch a fit about NFA legalities if the common perception wasn't that its illegal to own a machine gun. This isn't "hooey". Its something that needs to be considered, no matter how retarted it is. What the end result is, count on the DA making a big deal out of it if you whack someone with a registered M249, no matter what the circumstances are. What the consequences of his inflation is unknown. Do what you want, just don't act suprised when a DA paints you like an assassin for using a laser to give Tyrone a third eyeball.