Rand Paul Silences Whoopi On Gun Control [VIDEO] Once again The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg is proving her ignorance. Apparently, she believes that anyone can go and buy automatic weapons. During a recent episode, Goldberg debated with Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul about gun control. She claims that she couldnt understand why anyone objects to getting rid of automatic weapons. Of course, Goldberg is not aware that automatic weapons are already regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and are not available to the general public. Individuals who request to obtain such a weapon must first be approved by the federal government for a special license. This requires a $200 fee to the Internal Revenue Service and going through a screening process with the Treasury Department. . Automatic weapons, theyre not for hunting, Goldberg told Paul. They do nothingtheyre only there to kill. And youll notice that a lot of things that happened are with automatic weapons. When we see that why dont we say, Who really needs to have one other than people that are at war? Truly automatic weapons we dont have, he argued. We banned truly automatic weapons I think in 1934. But we still go a lot of them Rand, Goldberg argued. Cmon! What we have is not automatic weapons, Paul continued. Its semi-automatic. So they fire in a fairly fast sequence, but you cant pull the trigger and they come like a machine gun. Those are no longer out there. Paul then went on to correct Goldberg once more, explaining that people do hunt and people also do shooting and sports shooting and target shooting with these types of weapons. What do you think? Does Whoopi need to stick to what she knows? 