At this point in the Republic, who gives a shit what the actual letter of the (possibly ill passed on a voice vote) law states? We have immigration law too, Dems wipe their ass with it. BATFE doesn’t seem to mind pulling new “regulations” out of their ass, so why not new machine guns?.... SCOTUS seems to have the “common use”metric, with even a 90 day period to make new machine guns, there will be millions making them “common use.” We can even call them “dreamer” machine guns that are in need of “permanent legal status.”
Or simply put, hard working honest people that don’t break the law, but when push comes to shove many of whom will refuse to let their country become Cuba or Venezuela.
I keep thinking this over, it probably won’t happen, but if it did imagine how many new applications the BATFE would have to process? I believe I read something recently that with the next budget there is supposed to be a ton of new examiners hired, which has me thinking maybe someone or someones’ has been setting this up all along...
If only Reagan had a line item veto at the time. Do you realize how far down the rabbit hole we'd be today were it not for FOPA 86? We haven't had one single President since Reagan who would have signed it, let alone a version that closed the registry.
More importantly, you seem to forget that we were up against a bill from Hughes that not only closed the registry for ALL NFA weapons, but also didn't allow additional transfers of the ones that existed. So it passed the current owners in 1986 would have been the last people to lawfully own machine guns and other NFA items.
Not saying I'm happy about the Hughes Amendment to FOPA, but it could have been LOTS worse. I just wish we could get the "sporter clause" struck from the '68 GCA because that would fix a LOT of things.
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It would fix most things, firearms would not need to pass a "suitable for civilian (sporter) applications" test for importation or manufacture. As a result there would be no foundation for import or manufacturer bans or restrictions.
The NFA would remain in place, but it would reopen the registry. And honestly we wouldn't want to try and undo the NFA because it could have unintended consequences such as changing the registration fee from $200 to $2000 or something like that.
And honestly $1,200 for a NIB factory Colt M4 or M16A4 would still be quite a bargain. It would leave the legal registration of machine guns in place which allows politicians to honestly say "These items are already regulated by law" and that satisfies most people.
The GCA would still prevent having firearms shipped directly to your home, would keep in place a system or regulated firearms dealers (FFLs) and things that amount to "common sense" gun control in the minds of most people.
And honestly, while I'm a borderline rights absolutist, the fact that we are so negligent in removing the most violent and criminal elements of society I'd be fine with leaving things in place even with the knowledge that criminals can easily circumvent them because they are criminals.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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