Posted on 12/13/2006 12:22:37 PM PST by 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ATF rescinded its previous determination that the Akins Accelerator™ was not a machinegun subject to the GCA or NFA (see http://www.firefaster.com/documentation.html for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.
(Excerpt) Read more at firefaster.com ...
Going? You haven't been following this very closely for long, have you? They're not going there, they've BEEN there for decades.
It's a creatively designed stock that allows the action & barrel to slide backwards by recoil, pulling the trigger away from your finger, then a spring pushes it forward again, causing the trigger to hit your finger again, fire again, repeat cycle. It's a clever way to turn a semi-auto rifle into a full-auto one.
From what I can gather, BATFE wasn't really concerned about it when people were putting this stock on .22s (Ruger 10/22 in particular), but when the company started making versions of this stock for the SKS (firing the world's most popular military ammo) the ATF decided it was now on the wrong side of a rather fuzzy line.
Yet-more-stupidity read-later self-ping.
Sorry, but they determined that a shoestring (external modification) is a machinegun.
This is an ongoing outrage!. How did our government get to this point? Heads should roll. Not only those of politicians who encourage the prosecution of our Troops - but the politicians who allow it through inaction. Lawyers who take cases like this should be run out of town on a rail.
Thank you for raising children who have the honor to serve even though there are those in the government who may wish them ill.
I'd like to see a general legal defense fund set up for troops who are accused of murder during time of war.
12 gauge is a good shotgun that does not raise eyebrows when it is purchased. Even if its known to be in possession, well, shooting clays are real big now days. Its just a "sporting rifle".
LOL! I can think of a few things that would be great sport to shoot at!
What kind of idiots do we have sitting in judgment of these things? When I was growing up and learning about decision making, my dad told me after getting all the facts I could to make a decision, then STAND DY IT.
When making a decision about this new product, it was known that it would affect the livelihood of the manufacturers and the pocketbooks of purchasers. If they were too ignorant to understand the product, they should not get a do-over.
And beyond all of this is the general Unconstitutional nature of these decisions in the first place. I do not understand why a large majority of us don't tell them to CEASE and DESIST these violations of our RIGHT to Keep and Bear Arms.
GRRRRRR!
Isn't the company producing the Tec-9 and it's variants also out of business, for some time, now?
LOL I remember some years ago when it was proposed to fold the BATF into the U.S. Marshal Service and the head marshal responded with the following:
Know what you get then you mix clean water with dirty water? Answer: Dirty Water. No way.
"... under political pressure, come back to BAN THE ITEM, by reclassifying it."
There is no evidence there was any political pressure. This was entirely beneath the radar. Besides there are no anti-gun pressure groups nearly as effective as the NRA.
--and Roosevelt's AG (Homer Cummings, IIRC) admitted-or boasted-that the only way the legislation would work was as a tax--he understood that a ban would be unconstitutional--
Service !!
Not true really ... Prohibition was repealed 12/5/1933. NFA was passed 6/24/1934 as a measure to give the tax agents something to do.
You're joking right? So where is the 200 dollar NFA tax on all shoestrings?
"Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours."
Was that a threat or a promise?
So if I have one of these, I guess I have three options...No four...
#1 Remove it and turn it into some government agency, get on my knees and publically beg for forgiveness...
#2 Register it, and pay more money every year to keep it...
or...
#3 Ignore this...
Sorry only three options...
I am assuming they have supoened the companies sales records too...That would be just grand...
Maybe I'll get a knock on my door...Just because I bought something that is more fun that sex...(sometimes, not ALL the time)...
Is Travis McGee still around???
I thought he was still banned???
To which I still think that situation was blown out of proportion...But that was just my opinion...
"You're joking right?"
Nope, per ATF letter http://www.jpfo.org/shoestring.jpg "In 1996, FTB examined and classified a 14-inch long shoestring with a loop at each end." Read the letter for all the info. As for the tax, my guess is that that would be a no win situation. They would get attacked over that for being unfair to the poor (or something like that) or Congress would get so much grief from voters that they would lean on the ATF.
"NRA, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!?!?!?!?!"
I have a feeling that we won't see anything from them about this.
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