Posted on 12/31/2008 11:53:37 AM PST by dvan
“From my cold dead hands....” Charlton Heston NRA President 1999-2003.
BTTT.
Everybody, I was shopping gun parts for an imported shotgun and kept running across references to "922r compliant", that the imported gun "is not 922r compliant out-of-the-box with high-capacity magazines".
What is that all about? The (expired) Clinton gun ban?
Is it still relevant? Do I have to modify the imported piece with aftermarket U.S. content before using the "noncompliant" magazines?
Or is that Old Clintonspeak, and no longer operative?
Second question: What's the consensus here: Can Red Nancy and the Magic Negro do a retroactive gun ban to January 1? Retroactivity (unconstitutional) has never bothered Congress when it came to raising taxes.
Thanks muy muchesimo mucho, in advance.
Taking a guess here, but I believe `922r compliant’ refers to the number of imported versus U.S. made parts which make up a legal semi-automatic firearm. Usually applied to AK-47 lookalikes where an American made receiver is built into a rifle using imported parts. IIRC, at least six component parts must be U.S. made.
All this is subject to change under the incoming New Order. But the Anointed One may just have too full a plate for the time being.
I'm not up to speed on 922r compliance, but based on the recent activity in this forum - Saiga 922r Compliance / THE LAW - it looks like it's still relevant.
As far as the consensus of a retroactive gun ban to January 1, they'd be stupid to attempt it. However the Democrat Party is now in charge, so you can expect extreme levels of stupidity beginning January 21. They'd be wise to just leave gun owners alone.
Do you read the NRA's America's 1st Freedom magazine? There is an article titled Beware The Rahm (Emanuel) in the January issue. Scary reading. The article is also online here: http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?id=339&issue=047. Pelosi and Obama are just the tip of the iceberg.
It's a content-based restriction the point of which was to support Clinton's gun-ban legislation, but it apparently was done as a modification to USC elsewhere and was not subject to the Clinton ban's sunset provision.
Someone was being flat nasty when they thought that up.
Now you've got legally imported legal guns that are being snagged by the 922(r) clause even though they're legal, because NIB they contain too much "prohibited" content, i.e. foreign parts on the Klintoon hate-list.
Ain't that rich? Another liberal Catch-22.
Well, it looks like Jan. 21 might be a good date to get all this stuff done by -- no telling what executive orders his little Red termites have got already typed up for his signature.
Welcome to East Germany, ca. 1970.
“Welcome to East Germany, ca. 1970”
Well, in 1970 I was in West Germany buying many fine firearms at bargain prices.
But a comparison to the GDR begs the question: what in the coming Days of Obama will correspond to the Stasi, or the Gestapo before that? BATFE obviously, but the Stasi had under its control a network of informers about four to five times the number of actual secret police. Some of these were true believers in Marx and Lenin, but most had been compromised in some way and were forced to inform to keep their own hides out of the labor camps.
It’s been tried here before, usually in big cities with antigun mayors: “If you suspect your neighbor has a gun, call this toll-free number and you do not have to give your name.”
I too am wondering if that coming blizzard of Obama executive orders will be signed exclusively in red ink.
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