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Sign of Good Faith
This is a gun control law success story. Under this law only one person has ever abused the weapon with which he was entrusted. The reward the people who abided by this law so well was to have their rights even further restricted. As was said at the beginning a gun control success story.
Persons applying to purchase weapons under this law had to pay a $200.00 tax. They had to submit their fingerprints and a photograph, present an acceptable purpose for purchasing the weapon, be approved by their local sheriff or police chief, and submit to an FBI background check of anywhere from two to six months. The weapon was registered to them and they could not transfer the weapon (accept to an heir) without repeating the process.
This is the law that applied to people purchasing machineguns before May 1986. A private citizen could apply to purchase a machinegun which would be added by the vendor to the machinegun registry. An exemption on paying the tax for certain machineguns declared relics and curios was permitted registered collectors. As mentioned, from 1934 to 1986 only one case was recorded of legally owned machinegun being used to commit a crime.
In May of 1986 the machinegun registry was closed by the Hughes Amendment. This Amendment was passed by acclamation called by Acting Speaker of the House Charles Rangel. Calls for a roll call vote were ignored. In the end this was accepted as a "reasonable compromise" in the Firearms Owners Protection passed in 1986. Machineguns not registered before 19 May 1986 as transferable to civilians can ever be added to the registry and made transferrable.
Machinegun owners and collectors were rewarded for 52 years of almost perfect law abiding action by having the access to new machineguns blocked.
Two points:
A. This is what compromise with victim disarmers gets you, punished for not breaking the law and written off as collateral damage to keep the deal making process working.
B. In a spirit of compromise perhaps it is time to reopen the machine gun registry. It would be an acceptable gesture of good faith and proof that gun owners can trust the anti-gunners. After all, this is the kind of process they want us to submit to for all firearms transfers.
The author of this article does not support the NFA or compromising gun rights. However, our opponent are always asking us to give up something to hold on to the rest of our rights.
Perhaps it is time they admit something is ours to prove their good faith.
A.X. Perez
[email protected]
[ I suspect good faith is something they do not have one little bit of. Slavers are like that, and anyone who is anti-gun-ownership is a slaver, and it is time we start calling them that. — Editor ]
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