What is LDS church view of a baptized member owning machine guns?
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As far as I know, there is no moral objection to Church members owning weapons of any type. Self defense and the defense of one's family and freedom of religion are explicitly approved, and on occasion mandated, in both the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants. However, members are also instructed to obey the law of the land, so if there are legal restrictions on the number or types of weapons that may be privately owned, the members should observe them.* Unless their conduct becomes a criminal offense, it would not affect their church standing.
*This article for example talks about what one must do to legally own a machine gun in the USA.
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Owning a gun of any kind is not a sin. sinful usage of a gun would be wrong, such as murder.
Also, the 12th article of Faith written by Joseph Smith states:
12 We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1?lang=eng
I'm not an expert on gun laws of every country, but I'm pretty sure "machine guns" are illegal in most countries I'm aware of under most circumstances. So in that case, yes the Church would be against its members having machine guns.
What you're referencing mentions unregistered machine guns, thus implying unlawful.
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