[El Gato]

(1986 GCA (?))

There is no 1986 GCA. The 1986 legislation was the Firearm Owners Protection Act. It was a good bill, repealing the more egregious provisions of the '68 GCA (Maybe that's what you meant), such as having to show ID and sign a register when purchasing "handgun" ammunition(including .22 rim fire), and removing the provisions against interstate shipment of ammunition directly to a consumer, It also provided several protections for gun owners, such as the ability to transport firearms from one state where possession of them is legal to another where is also legal, never mind the laws of states or localities in between (with limitations on the conditions of transport).

The one bad feature, and it's truly awful, because it was the first outright *ban* of a whole class of firearms for civilians, was a last minute (literally) addition that many did not even know was in the bill and fewer yet understood. In fact it was so poorly worded it should not have changed anything, but it's being enforced as the author intended, not as the law actually reads.

[SWO]

Thanks for the correction.
The 86 act is as good an example as any of why the NRA is foolish to go along with a “good bill” regardless of what it contains. The last ‘good’ bill got the machine gun ban in through the back door.
I was trying to suggest at a minimum there should be a self executing correction 'plus' to the new law the NRA endorsed. Don’t really create a way to regain lost gun rights? Fine. Can the bill you just passed and one more. In this case, won't fund the appeal process? OK Chuck, we're going to start selling full autos again. Grabbers won’t vote for that amendment? Ask them to explain why. Yeah it’s stupid, but with the NRA pushing improved gun laws what do you expect? Better to force the other side to go first the next time. Put them on the defensive the next time.