“OK, I am not a legal eagle, but to me this is an umbrella to ban handguns based on a definition of “sporting handgun”..is my tin foil hat on to tight? “
No. You are correct. This bill bans all handguns. It bans all handguns that are not “sporting” handguns, and since there’s no such thing as a “sporting” handgun, all guns are therefore not a “sporting” handgun, and therefore all handguns are banned. Quite simple actually.
Currently, the ATF uses a scoring system to determine the “sporting purposes” level of a handgun. It’s used to keep many guns out of the country by making them unimportable.
By the current system, it would ban almost all short barreled handguns of .380 cal or lower. It wouldn’t be too hard for the rules to change and make things much more strict.
Here’s a link to the ATF criteria.
http://www.atf.gov/files/forms/download/atf-f-5330-5.pdf