Posted on 04/05/2023 4:42:13 AM PDT by marktwain
Normally, I make appearances on the Russ Clark Show, a local radio show with a national audience, once a week in the studio. One morning, after finishing the drive-time radio show, I walked out to my vehicle, ready to take on the rest of the day. As I approached my vehicle, I saw a Yuma City Police vehicle approaching in the parking lot of the radio station.
I opened my vehicle door and reached inside for a camera, as I thought pictures of such a police car might be useful for future articles. As I was half inside the vehicle, I noticed the police car pull up in front of me with the window rolled down. The officer said, “Are you Mr. Weingarten?” I said I was.
They said: I was listening to you on the radio. I could not call in because I was on duty. I would really like for you to bring up the Hughes Amendment on the radio show.
The Hughes Amendment was passed under dubious circumstances as part of the passage of the Firearms Owners Protection Act in 1986. Second Amendment supporters, particularly in the NRA, had been working for years to reform the more odious overreach of the 1968 Gun Control Act. The leadership in the Congress, controlled by Democrats, was opposed, even though a majority of the Congress was willing to vote in the reforms.
The NRA was able to invoke a seldom used rule, a discharge petition. If a majority of House members would sign a petition to bring the reform bill to a vote, the leadership could be overruled.
The Hughes Amendment has been interpreted to forbid sales of full-auto firearms to ordinary citizens
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Video proof that the Hughes Amendment (machine gun ban) did NOT pass
At the moment there are on the order of a quarter of a million fully-automatic firearms lawfully owned by members of the general public.
In the (almost 90) years since the NFA was passed (before which you could buy machineguns over the counter at Sears or Ace Hardware), there have been exactly two (2) murders committed with a lawfully-possessed fully-automatic weapon.
In both cases the perp was a cop. In once case the weapon in question belonged to the perp’s PD.
For their stellar law-abiding behavior, collectors of auto firearms where forbidden from acquiring more than existed "on the books" in 1986.
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