IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR FREEPERS WITH FIREARMS!Akins Accelerator(tm) reclassified as NFA by BATFE

Atkins Accelerator (TM) ^ | 13 DEC 06 | dcbryan1

[DCBryan1]

BATFE DECIDES THE AKINS ACCELERATOR™ TO BE A MACHINEGUN

Akins Group Inc. regrets to announce that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has reversed its position and has decided the Akins Accelerator™ to be a machinegun conversion kit, thereby subjecting it to strict regulation under the Gun Control Act (GCA) and National Firearms Act (NFA).

ATF rescinded its previous determination that the Akins Accelerator™ was not a machinegun subject to the GCA or NFA (see http://www.firefaster.com/documentation.html for original documentation).

Attorneys for the Akins Group Inc. are seeking reconsideration by ATF of its new position. In the interim, any sale, transfer, or return of the Akins Accelerator™ must be suspended. Akins Group Inc. will advise further after meeting with ATF.

Akins Group Inc. has received no instruction as to the disposition of units in customer hands. Please refrain from public speculation and emotional responses and allow our Attorneys to advocate for everyone's best interests.

[SENTINEL]

"You'd think the Government would put a "Grandfather" clause "

Our founding fathers did...Article 1 Section 10 (as I recall): "...and no ex post facto law shall be passed."

The BATF is violating this tenet of the constitution as well as the second ammendment with this ruling.

Start your stockpiling...Here we go again !

[ASA Vet]

The Bureau Attacking The Free, (BATF) should be banned?

Be careful citizen, you might be seen as a trouble maker.

[DCBryan1]

2) I think any "reasonable person" would call the finished product a machine gun. Firing 25 or 50 rounds on a single trigger pull, IMO, qualifies this as a machine gun.

I understand what you are saying, but if you read the ATF documentation, they said, we researched your product, and no, under federal law, and our careful examination, your product is NOT a machinegun, and you don't need any stinking licenses, permits, fees, etc...so you can go forth and make millions of dollars....

Only later to come back and say NOT!.

It is anti-captialism, anti-constitutional, anti-freeenterprise, anti-entrepreneur, and just plain anti-american to do this to a company wanting to provide (formerly) legal supply to a enthusiastic demand.

[Sax]

"Firing 25 or 50 rounds on a single trigger pull, IMO, qualifies this as a machine gun."

It's not a single trigger pull. Each round is fired by a individual trigger pull. The trigger recoils along with the receiver and is slammed forward into the finger resulting in a trigger pull for each round fired.

[DCBryan1]

The Bureau Attacking The Free, (BATF) should be banned?

I was told that it (BATF) meant:
Burn
All
Toddlers
First.

[Last Laugh]

I never understood how Reno got away with that. Or the Clinton Admin. too, come to think of it.

[DCBryan1]

It's not a single trigger pull.

Absolutely right. According to ATF, this now is considered a machinegun:

Any weapon that will slam fire
any weapon whose sear breaks and double fires,
any weapon which gets hot and has a "runaway" fire,
Any person who "limpwrists" a pistol and it fires twice
any "bump fire",
any inertia fire

Can you see where this is going?

[DCBryan1]

It's not a single trigger pull.

Absolutely right. According to ATF, this now is considered a machinegun:

Any weapon that will slam fire
any weapon whose sear breaks and double fires,
any weapon which gets hot and has a "runaway" fire,
Any person who "limpwrists" a pistol and it fires twice
any "bump fire",
any inertia fire

Can you see where this is going?

[Yo-Yo]

If you just want to burn through a brick of .22LR, you can still buy one of these from Cabela's:

[Last Laugh]

I think any "reasonable person" would call the finished product a machine gun. Firing 25 or 50 rounds on a single trigger pull, IMO, qualifies this as a machine gun.

I would say so as well. But the government has no business banning any firearms, especially from law-abiding people. The right to keep and bear arms does not specify certain types of arms, after all.

Gun laws - any of them - are unconstitutional.

[elkfersupper]

[ArrogantBustard]

I've seen a guy stick a cartridge in each ear, as field-expedient ear protection. I thought it was dumb ... that goes 'way beyond dumb.

[woollyone]

[Fierce Allegiance]

How do you set up 550 round magazines?

[LibWhacker]

Yup, I agree with everything you said. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, etc... However, I STILL think the Constitution took a major hit when they (in effect) outlawed machine guns, and they never should've done it. They had no right to do it, and I'm still highly ticked off about it! So this buttstock thingy ban is just adding insult to injury as far as I'm concerned.

[Last Laugh]

Start your stockpiling...Here we go again!

Start? I have not stopped since 9-11. ;)

[ASOC]

ROTFLMA completely O

Note that this maroons finger is on the trigger!

But I am sure it would have been called an "accedental" shooting. (AD my butt)

[Centurion2000]

Actually a better piece of equipment is a HellFire trigger system. Had one for an AK I used to have .... LOVED it.

Wound up selling the AK off.

[Rakkasan1]

BATF= BOHICA

[ArrogantBustard]

Think about it, though ... The guy in that pic is (presumably) a BATFag ... so a bullet passing in one ear, through his skull, and out the other will do precisely ZERO damage to him ...