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Michigan to end Ban on Some Rifles and Shotguns
Gun Watch ^ | 20 March, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 03/21/2014 6:23:16 PM PDT by marktwain


Senate Bill 610 has passed both the House and the Senate, and is headed to Governor Snyder.   The bill will end nearly a hundred years of a pointless ban on the possession of short barreled rifles and shotguns.  The Governor has said that he will sign the bill.  From the  mcrgo facebook page:

 Regardless, Governor Snyder has indicated he will sign SB 610. The bill will have immediate effect upon his signature. The photo here with Sen. Mike Green is for illustrative purposes only and is not Green's SB 610.
It has been suggested that the Michigan ban served as the template for the weird ban by regulation and tax on short barreled rifles and shotguns that exists in the National Firearms Act of 1934.   The Michigan ban was passed in 1931.  This new law defers to the 1934 Federal law as it exists now, allowing possession of the short barreled rifles and shotguns, if registered under the NFA.   NFA 1934 was upheld in the infamous Miller decision.  

In 1931,Michigan had only recently required police permission to buy pistols.  It has been argued that this was in response to the successful defense of his household by Dr. Ossian Sweet.

A ban on short barreled rifles and shotguns only makes sense if pistols are as highly or more highly regulated.  If a person can legally own pistols and rifles and shotguns, a ban on short barreled rifles and shotguns makes no sense at all.

The removal of the ban in Michigan is part of the trend to remove these obsolete infringements on the second amendment.   A removal of the excessive federal regulation and taxation on short barreled rifles and shotguns would be rational and welcome, so it is not likely to happen with the current administration in power.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; mi; nfa
Reform of the National Firearms Act of 1934 is coming.
1 posted on 03/21/2014 6:23:16 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
I've never understood why a short barrel was supposedly more dangerous.

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2 posted on 03/21/2014 6:25:50 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: marktwain

Now if they would lift the ban on baffled air rifles


3 posted on 03/21/2014 6:26:20 PM PDT by TMSuchman (John 15;13 & Exodus 21:22-25 Pacem Bello Pastoribus Canes [shepard of peace,dogs of war])
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To: marktwain

Forget reform. Get rid of the stupid NFA and Hughes Amendment.


4 posted on 03/21/2014 6:28:12 PM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: Azeem

“Forget reform. Get rid of the stupid NFA and Hughes Amendment.’

Both of those sound like excellent reforms to me...


5 posted on 03/21/2014 6:33:16 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: cripplecreek

Snyder’s up for election this year. How’s he looking?


6 posted on 03/21/2014 6:42:40 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: marktwain

one way or another. barrycades is doing his best.


7 posted on 03/21/2014 6:47:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Azeem

And GCA 68 and Brady. Un- bloody- constitutional.


8 posted on 03/21/2014 6:49:59 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

He looks like he doesn’t have much to worry about. His only opponent is Mark Schauer and his claims to fame are paying the highest ever fine for campaign finance violation and voting for Obamacare during his single term in congress.

I’m not wild about Snyder but he is better than Schauer.


9 posted on 03/21/2014 6:51:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: marktwain

Here in NM, Marble Game Getters fetch big bucks.


10 posted on 03/21/2014 7:01:20 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: cripplecreek

better than Golden Schauer?

Failure to include state noble workers in RTW and do nothing about the way under funded state pension program, check.
Taxes on pensions, check.
$25 million per year to the film industry to make movies in Michigan that are all losers, check.
No effort to end prevailing wage so road noble workers get top dollar for leaning on their shovels or sitting on their asses, check.
$350 million of State money to bail out the sewer that is Detroit, check.
Stopping a perfectly good millionaire from building a bridge to Canada in favor of taking Federal money (taxpayer money), check.
And on and on.

Yeah, Nerd boy is the appropriate choice for the NOT Taxed Enough Already Party alright. Just get ready for when the little punk is term limited after you clowns re-elect him.


11 posted on 03/21/2014 7:20:36 PM PDT by RushLake (Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. (Emerson))
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To: RushLake

I usually just ignore your drunken rantings but I’m glad to see that you oozed out from under your rock to drool openly.

Way to hate on the tea party. LOL


12 posted on 03/21/2014 7:24:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

getting better all the time......better, better, better


13 posted on 03/21/2014 9:12:01 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Whats the matter?...........afraid to go out of the house


14 posted on 03/22/2014 6:04:27 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Im missing a jumbo jet with 235 passengers has anyone seen it?)
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