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To: springwater13
"pre-1986 machine gun"

What happened in '86 that prompted this rule?
48 posted on 02/20/2018 1:38:31 PM PST by indthkr
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To: indthkr

New manufacture of fully-automatic (Class III) firearms were prohibited via an amendment added to a bill intended to protect the firearms industry. Charles Rangel ran it through on a voice vote - there’s a YouTube video of the vote. It’s one of the reasons why I wish we had a line-item veto.


56 posted on 02/20/2018 1:44:08 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: indthkr
Firearm Owners Protection Act.

FOPA

66 posted on 02/20/2018 1:49:26 PM PST by skimbell
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To: indthkr

“”pre-1986 machine gun”

What happened in ‘86 that prompted this rule? “

Look up Hughes amendment.


76 posted on 02/20/2018 1:53:10 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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