Originally Posted by
.45fan
People always say "we lost XYZ but kept A". This is why our right are disappearing. How about we just stop being thankful we only only lost a little. There isn't much pie left to give slices away from.
I'm not saying you're wrong about your post, I'm just sick of losing over and over, then hearing that people are wonderful because they only stuck the tip in as opposed to full strokes.
I don't think anyone was happy with the Hughes amendment.
But the reality is the choices were:
A: FOPA w/ Hughes Amendment
B. Hughes / Rodino Bill passed as law
C. Hughes amendment attached to 89 Import Ban or 94 domestic ban.
The bottom line is they were gonna close the registry, by 1984 machine guns suddenly became "affordable" again and the $200 tax was no longer prohibitive. And NOBODY was gonna stand up for machine gun rights and I mean NOBODY. No president has ever done it. So it was a matter of realizing they are gonna continuously attach some version of the Hughes amendment to everything and Reagan had a majority Democrat congress to deal with and no line item veto option.
And the only person I can recall or killed a bill over a second amendment poison pill was Larry Craig when he deep sixed his own industry protection act because a Republican majority congress successfully attached a renewal of the Clinton ban to it PRIOR to the sunset. Sen. Craig then killed his own bill rather than allow the reauthorization of the Clinton ban, it's the only time I've seen somebody do that.
And the ONLY time we've ever undone any part of 1968 CGA was FOPA. It's ironically the most the NRA or Congress has ever done for gun owners. They have been unable to reverse the 89 import ban, the ban on foreign machine guns in the 1968 GCA and nobody killed the 94 Clinton ban, in fact the Republicans under Bush 43 actually reauthorized it and only Larry Craig saved us and allowed it to sunset.
That is just the nature of our government, Reagan was the last person to actually GAIN anything and all anyone remembers is the Hughes amendment.
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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