There’s always been rumors about the Hughes amendment not really being passed and added to the 86 Firearms Owners Protection Act
I thought this was old news. Uncle link to someone who has the congressional record in question and claims that the vote taken shows that the Hughes amendment failed.
Hell, you can even find that information on Wikipedia.
What's the more important question is how will this be corrected. I can't see there's any legal action we can take.
And pragmatists will say that re-legalizing machine guns will be politically unpalatable.
Who fucking cares? It's time we stuck to making crimes illegal, rather than things. Criminals will get whatever weapons they want, whenever they want ..... they always have.
Full auto AK-47 costs too much on the street? No problem .... just rob a few more old ladies, or invade a few more homes and steal more shit from law-abiding citizens.
And exactly how has the Hughes amendment stopped anyone who wanted a machinegun from getting a machinegun? Hmm? Thats what I thought. But in the whole time of legal machingegun ownership, there have been two incidents where a legally-owned machinegun was used in a crime.
Two.
And 1983 to 1992, there were 4 police officers killed by illegal machineguns.
Yes, any loss of life, police or otherwise, is tragic ..... but you cannot make society perfect. You can only do the best that you can, let citizens have the tools they want, and get out of the way.
The Hughes amendment needs to go away, as well as the NFA.
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