[El Gato]

rming pilots was already the first gun control repeal in federal history

Actually the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 would be a better cannidate for that description. It repealed some of the more useless provisions of the 1968 Gun Control Act.

Via a last minute amendment (literally) it also banned the sale of newly manufactured machine guns to private citizens. Which illustrates why the Ugly Gun and normal capacity magazine ban isn't dead for 51 more days, and why eternal vigilance is required to prevent it's reinactment thereafter.

[Southack]

Arming pilots was already the first gun control repeal in federal history - Southack

"Actually the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 would be a better cannidate for that description. It repealed some of the more useless provisions of the 1968 Gun Control Act."

No, GOPA '86 repealed the laws that required retailers to track ammo sales, as well as provided an exemption from state and local prosecution to anyone transporting a firearm between two legal areas from prosecution if they merely passed through a zone that had a firearms ban.

Neither of those things repealed any *gun* control laws that were already on the books. One repealed ammo paperwork, the other left all existing state and local gun bans on the books. Worse, GOPA '86 banned civilians from buying new machine guns; hardly a repeal of gun control.

So the first repeal of a federal *firearms* ban was when President Bush signed the two arming pilots bills into law.

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