Further, the ATF tech branch has wildly varied ideas of what makes a Machine Gun and how you test for that fact. Is it a part, or is it the receiver, is it a combination? If they can rig a gun with Rube Goldberg arrangements of zip ties, string, wire and fix it to a bench and make it fire more than once they can consider it to be a functional machine gun and you can be arrested and charged with a serious felony. Yet they've also gone as far as to say that if a firearm can be modified by a gunsmith in 8 hours it's a machine gun, a competent gunsmith could build a machine gun from scratch in that time in some cases.
There IS a war on guns. You're on the front lines. Look at the Canadian registration program. If it continues, I guarantee it will result in confiscations in 10 years. The Canadian program for licensing was upped from $5 for the license years ago to $25 per arm. The British and Australian registration programs did. It's happened in some US states too. New Jersey had an Assault weapons registration some time back, it resulted later on in a confiscation in the 80s iirc.
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Date: 2006-03-13 06:06 pm (UTC)Then there's the ATF going around and harassing people in Virginia at Gunshows. Fishing for crimes and harassing law abiding citizens.
There IS a war on guns. You're on the front lines. Look at the Canadian registration program. If it continues, I guarantee it will result in confiscations in 10 years. The Canadian program for licensing was upped from $5 for the license years ago to $25 per arm. The British and Australian registration programs did. It's happened in some US states too. New Jersey had an Assault weapons registration some time back, it resulted later on in a confiscation in the 80s iirc.
Let me repeat, there is a WAR on Guns.