I could handle having hand guns and hunting rifles.. but everything else? yes, they should be illegal. Give me ONE legitimate reason why someone needs an automatic weapon.
Automatic weapons as most people who know anything about guns knows were banned in the 1930's. These are machine guns, M16s, MAC10s etc.
The Automatic Weapons Ban actually just outlawed a few semi-automatic rifle, ie a rifle where you do not have to cock the gun after every shot, you aim and shoot the trigger without having to pull a bolt as in a bolt-action rifle. Even there it didn't even ban all semi-automatic weapons, since that's probably about 80% of the gun market in the United States basically the only weapons that aren't semi-auto are long distance sniper and range rifles which are usually bolt-action. What this bill did was just ban those with things like wood-grain triggers, bayonet attachment points, certain types of teloscopic lenses, and certain types of barrels. It mostly just banned anything that looked scary or "military" in any way. That of course has no affect on the gun at all, the gun makers just made the guns without those aesthetic features.
So in conclusion the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban was really nothing more than banning certain aesthetic features that looked "scary" and really had nothing to do with the lethality or the crime rates associated with different types of guns.
