Rifles on the other hand are used for sport, such as hunting, trap, and skeet shooting. They’re still very deadly like every other firearm but not as bad as an automatic and not as sneaky as a handgun. It is obviously much harder to conceal and walk around with a rifle than a handgun and that is why you can own a rifle at the age of 18 but not a handgun. This makes them a bit less dangerous in that sense. The only way you should be able to have one of the rifles is if you have a license to hunt or for the sport shooting at the range, such as trap and skeet shooting. Other than that, the only reason someone would want a gun is to protect themselves from other people with guns, this wouldn’t be a problem if we could minimize the amount of guns out there.
On the other hand, there is no reason why any civilian should need a machine gun. They are legal because they