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By the way, the Full Auto Ban Amendment to the 1986 “Firearms Owners Protection Act” never REALLY passed! It was just on a voice vote, and the Nays WAY outweighed the Yeas on the Amendment’s adoption ballot! I heard it! Tip O’Neal just PROCLAIMED that it passed, to the GASPS of many in attendence, and the minority Repubs could not challenge him because of the parlimentary rules in effect at the time! HONEST! History!

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“By the way, the Full Auto Ban Amendment to the 1986 “Firearms Owners Protection Act” never REALLY passed! It was just on a voice vote, and the Nays WAY outweighed the Yeas on the Amendment’s adoption ballot! I heard it! Tip O’Neal just PROCLAIMED that it passed, to the GASPS of many in attendence, and the minority Repubs could not challenge him because of the parlimentary rules in effect at the time! HONEST! History!”

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Yes, you are correct. I saw it on C-Span at the time it happened, and I even have it on tape (Beta!) somewhere. I do believe it was someone other than Tip O’Neil who held the gavel, though I am sure that he engineered it.

It was horrible to watch, a real rape of the legislative process. Just after freedom fighters had force through a bill to protect gun owners from the worst abuses of the 1968 bill, the Democrat leadership used Robert's Rules trickery and the lie to tack on a ban of future manufacture of common infantry arms in the U.S. for civilians. Some Republicans, thinking clearly, closed down the process before they could also ban manufacture of sound suppressors to protect hearing.

Tip O'Neil was an evil, evil man who violated his oath of office often and without remorse.