Posted on 01/03/2014 7:33:29 PM PST by lbryce
Better than 99% of NFA transfers are suppressors and short barreled rifles. The number of full auto weapons transferred is miniscule because the Hughes Amendment ended the productioj of full auto civilian firearms. To play in that venue now is prohibitively expensive. The article talking about “loopholes” to buy machine guns is designed to induce fear and panic in the uneducated minds that make up the majority of society. This is just more of the piss poor unprofessional “journalism” we are forced to bear these days.
To get these particularly dangerous guns, the president is doing whatever is within his power to close loopholes in federal law...
Oh, bad guns! Bad bad dangerous evil malicious stinky extra-dangerous scary bad bad bad guns!
In full seriousness: how many fully automatic weapons or short-barreled rifles and shotguns are ever used to commit crimes?
Another lie in 1946:
“The Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue, is charged with the enforcement of the National Firearms Act, which provides a penalty not to exceed $2,000 or imprisonment not to exceed five years, or both, in the event a person is convicted of violating any provisions of the Act. Veterans, register your foreign weapons today!”
Nov 19 1946 ‘Plattsburgh Press Republican’
Taa Daaaa !
Private security corporations like Blackwater wouldn't be able to buy new full auto weapons without the trust and corporate exemptions.
Every time there is a mention of repeal of the Hughs Act, these elitist bastards come out and oppose it. Traitors indeed.
NFA should be repealed. There is no reason for any regulation of silencers (suppressors); they should be encouraged to protect the health of shooters and to reduce the noise signature of ranges. While there is a criminal potential in short barrel rifles and shotguns (SBR/SBS), the same potential is in pistols that can be just as concealable and powerful; regulating SBR/SBS is pointless.
As for machine guns, I don’t feel safer with those restrictions than without. Anyone with minimal mechanical skills can quickly modify a semiautomatic to full auto. The machine gun restrictions only inconvenience the law abiding citizens who will not take that legal risk, without bothering the few criminals who want full auto when they are planning a felony and don’t care if they break one more law. I never want full auto because ammo is too expensive and I prefer to place my shots.
None, but that's probably because full autos are so expensive that anyone who can afford to buy one already has the money, he doesn't need to rob a party store......
I’ll take half a dozen in assorted colors!
Where does the line form? LOL!
It’s not the possession of the full auto firearm, suppressor, or short-barreled rifle that is the problem. Millions could own then without problem. Just like a hammer or fertilizer, it’s the use that should be subject to law not the possession.
While I generally agree about placing shots, I would like to have the option, in case I ever need it (okay, and just for fun, every now and then).
When did the value of machine guns ever go down?
The year was 1985 when REAGAN signed the Hughs act. The act made all machine guns manufactured and imported into the country ineligible for registration after 1985.
Before the Hughs act, a full auto M16 could have been purchased for $400.00, plus the $200.00 transfer tax stamp. The Colt semi auto version was $450.00. Now, a full auto M16 sells for upwards of $10,000. The Colt semi auto sells for $1150.00.
My Thompson 1927 A1 deluxe cost me $1000.00. The 1927 model full auto Thompson sell for upwards of $18,000.00, plus the $200.00 tax stamp.
If the Hughs act were to be repealed tomorrow the price of a full auto M16 would plummet to about $1200. The same if Auto Ordnance was allowed to produce the full auto 1927.
The collectors would really take it in the shorts, wouldn't they? Thus their opposition to the repeal of the Hughs act. Follow the money.
OK, I understand your logic. My point is that all other types of firearms have continued to be produced since 1985. I don’t see the price of them dropping, despite millions more added to the market. You know a lot more about it than me, but I just don’t see your scenario happening. Collectible firearms continue to go up in value.
LOL... this article is full of it. The information in it is patently misleading. I deal with NFA items and trusts every day. I’ll just say this, show me one single instance where this fear mongering claim is true.
Good luck because BATFE cannot show a single instance of it.
In 1980, the Colt AR was a little less than a weeks pay. Today, the Colt AR is still less that a weeks pay. The price really hasn't gone up except for inflation. The full auto on the other hand has gone up 3000 percent because a stupid law makes it illegal to buy new ones.
The 1927 Thompson is a collectible because it is an antique. But what makes it really valuable is because it is full auto and they aren't making them like that anymore thanks to the Hughs act.
Gun prices haven't really gone up much in the last 30 years due to the fact that more companies have entered the marketplace and technology enables guns to be made cheaper and faster. A good accurate hunting rifle cost me $350.00 in 1981. Today a good accurate hunting rifle still can be had for $350.00. The difference is now it's a Savage, then it was Winchester. Technology made Savage the equal of Winchester.
Agreed.
There is no reason to have federal regulation of gun mufflers (silencers,suppressors) or short barrelled rifles or shotguns beyond what exists for pistols.
In effect, short barrelled rifles or shotguns *are* effectively pistols, while there has never been a decent reason for these insane controls on gun mufflers, which even most European countries impose far less regulation on than the United States.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/11/comment-now-on-proposed-additional.html
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