The spineless SOBs like Hastert and company can always slip it into a bill during conference committee. They can put it on the "Congressional declaration of National bowling week" declaration, and pass it in the dead of night with no one reading the bill. That is undoubtedly true. What I have never understood is why the converse can't also be true - why can't a repeal of the '86 machine gun production ban, or the '68 GCA or the '34 NFA be slipped into some innocuous-sounding bill that no one notices? Why is it always at our expense?
What I have never understood is why the converse can't also be true - why can't a repeal of the '86 machine gun production ban, or the '68 GCA or the '34 NFA be slipped into some innocuous-sounding bill that no one notices? Why is it always at our expense? Many have made similar observations over the last few decades. If it's all a coincidence, why are we the ones always getting screwed?
The short answer to your question is that it is planned this way.