Ordering Machine Guns from the Internet?

I've come to believe that this person is a complete imbecile:

http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/anotherview/all-right_col-a.6384493apr30,0,6328408.story

The whole article proves how out of touch with reality he is, but this particular passage gets me:

"Now there are hundreds of ads for machine guns, large-capacity magazines, and ammunition on the Internet. These are weapons that should be reserved for elite police and military units."

I'm sorry, what?  Ads for machine guns on the internet?  Wow, he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about and obviously doesn't know a thing about current firearm laws.  You can buy giuns from the internet, but you must have them shipped to a certified Federal Firearms License holder around you.  You then go to that place, have the background check, sign the papers, and pay the money.

But you can't get machine guns.  Machine guns are defined as...

"A machine gun is a fully-automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rifle cartridges in quick succession from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred bullets per minute."

Of course these guns have been illegal in the United States for a very long time, obtainable legally only if you hold a special position with several background checks, tax stamps, fingerprinting, extra taxes, and of course they cost thousands.

This man also says owning a gun is a privalege, not a right.

Funny, our Constitution says differently.

It's strange to note how both this idiot and myself want to preserve safety and help the common good but we both have opposite views on how to do that.  Of course he seems very in-the-dark about the whole situation, but such is the world we live in.

~S