Posted on 12/27/2011 6:56:37 AM PST by marktwain
FAIRFAX, Va. --(Ammoland.com)- This year, NRA-ILA worked with pro-gun legislators to include a provision in the 2012 Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations legislation to help prohibit the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from banning the importation of shotguns that are currently legally imported.
That legislation was a part of a consolidated appropriations bill that Congress passed to fund major portions of the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2012.
Unfortunately, some inaccurate reports have claimed that this provision would repeal the sporting purposes test for importation of firearms.
While NRA supports repeal of the sporting purposes test, the provision included in the recently enacted bill does not achieve this goal.
The provision supported by NRA-ILA was prompted by a recent BATFE study that sought to reinterpret the sporting purposes test in a manner that would have banned the import of certain shotguns that are currently legal to import.
The new provision prevents, at least in the short term, the expansion of any shotgun bans under the sporting purpose language, thus preserving the status quo.
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“Sporting uses” is ridiculous language.
It reduces a serious matter to “fun and games”
It seems that for any “Sporting Purposes Test” to be “Constitutionally Valid” they would have to include government representatives as a game species.
Just observing, not suggesting.
The "Sporting Purpose" Issue in Gun-Control Policy April 11,1994
"Sporting purpose" is the benign face of evil intent.
It's also used to limit the debate on why an individual's gun exist. As you note...
It reduces a serious matter to fun and games
Yes, it does.
Behind Supreme Court case: Do gun rights protect against tyranny? March 4, 2010
He uses his Mossberg 590 with dual pistol grips -- and shoots "from the hip:..."
Even with my 20 ga o/u. he is tough to beat!
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