To pre Gun Control Act? Would that mean I could buy surplus weapons over the internet and have them shipped direct to my house? Cool. I want a 20 mm Solothurn or Lahti, they both fire the same 20x138B shell, just a little medium loading :)
Posted on 10/20/2005 1:14:04 AM PDT by Richard-SIA
To pre Gun Control Act? Would that mean I could buy surplus weapons over the internet and have them shipped direct to my house? Cool. I want a 20 mm Solothurn or Lahti, they both fire the same 20x138B shell, just a little medium loading :)
Actually a half step forward for the industry, but a step onto the slippery slope towards mandatory trigger lock usage for us.
However there is a little bit more good news. From S 397 as passed.
(a) Findings- Congress finds the following:
(1) The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
(2) The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the rights of individuals, including those who are not members of a militia or engaged in military service or training, to keep and bear arms.
Now that doesn't carry any force of law, it's in the findings, not the parts that will make it into the US Code. However it is something to be cited the next time a law which violates the second amendment is challenged in court.
The down side is that darn trigger lock business, although since in this bill it's not mandatory to actually use them, I guess it doesn't infringe on the right to either keep or bear arms.
"H.R. 800 or S. 397? That's the question."
It has to be HR-800 if the vote was 283-144. The senate only has 100 people.
The House voted for S. 397 as is. Check comments# 14 & 15. They didn't want to risk going to a conference committee.
It has to be HR-800 if the vote was 283-144. The senate only has 100 people.
That seems logical but with Democrat voters..sometimes the votes can be bigger than the whole eloctorate !
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