Posted on 07/24/2023 8:59:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senate Democrats are attempting to sneak an authorization of an outdated gun control law into the "must pass" National Defense Authorization Act, also known as the US Military budget.
The law in question is the 1988 Undetectable Firearms Act, which was championed by groups like Handgun Control Inc, now known as the Brady Campaign. The Act set the stage for the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.
Gun Owners of America is working in Congress today to ensure that history does not repeat itself with either of these attacks on your rights.
The Act itself bans any firearm that cannot be detected by metal detectors. But back in the 1980s, when this bill was written, detection technology was in its infancy. Nowadays, we have sophisticated detection technology that doesn't rely on metal detection to find firearms. In fact, modern detection technology can spot all objects, including guns regardless of the materials of their construction.
The Act itself not only hinders innovation in the firearms industry, but the potential for the weaponization of this law is huge, similar to how the 1934 NFA was weaponized to attack pistol braces and expand ATF's illegal registry.
A weaponized ATF might do this using the "Major Components" section of the Undetectable Firearms Act. To state it simply, the section makes clear that all guns and the major parts need to be recognizable by an x-ray machine. Who knows what they could twist into new law via "Regulatory Authority," or how this could affect newer technologies, like 3D printed firearms, which have been a target of the anti-gun machine since their inception with the Defense Distributed Liberator.
Anti-Gun politicians like Chuck Schumer knew that they wouldn't be able to reauthorize this contentious piece of unconstitutional legislation through traditional means, so this reauthorization was added to the NDAA via a process called a substitute amendment.
These substitute amendments are typically used for fixing grammar or spellchecking bills, but it's also a way to get law into the final bill text without having it be voted on.
Requiring firearms to meet archaic standards of metal detection technology from the 1980s is pure feel-good security theater. Reauthorizing the Undetectable Firearms Act will not keep anyone safe from criminals or terrorists intent on doing harm.
Only law-abiding gun owners and hobbyists will obey this weak, ineffective, and outdated law. On the other hand, if Congress wants to help bolster security at a sensitive location, it ought to invest in and prioritize modern detection technology.
So, you're probably asking: "What can we do to stop this from becoming law?"
Well, the answer lies in the lawmaking process. Both the Senate and the House have their own versions of the NDAA. Because the Senate version has this awful poison pill, but the House version doesn't, we can stop this by demanding its removal.
This is where we need your help. Please, call your Senators and Representatives and tell them to remove the "Permanent Authorization of Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988" from the NDAA immediately!
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Sorry, but Republicans know damned well that this is what Dems do. There's no excuse for Republicans to be hoodwinked unless they wanted to be and squeal about it after the fact.
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Because I have a hidden knife. ZOINK!
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If it wasn’t for the NRA, there would be no GOA.
18 USC 922 (o) is hereby repealed.
I remember that 1988 law. it was in response to the plastic framed Glock firearm which was claimed could now pass through metal detectors. It as usual was an anti-gun lie.
At that time there was a series of aircraft hijackings in the middle east. A photo of the hijackers showed they were armed with standard framed semi-auto firearms that looked like the full metal Browning Hi-Power.
The grand performance is thus suffering from an acute lack of verisimilitude. :)
In fact, modern detection technology can spot all objects, including guns regardless of the materials of their construction.”
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So this would be good for detecting ‘trans’s’ in sports competitions.
I can’t argue with that! :)
LOL If the 5 O’Clock shadow isn’t convincing enough, yes.
That link goes to a questionnaire that can be sent to our reps in Congress. Useful. A link to the original article would be handy.
Word has it that the NRA is telling house members that this is no big deal. So was Cornan’s betrayal last year... See how that has been weaponized. This UFA Act was a show law passed in 1988 because of movie guns> It even had an expiration date because it was such a POS. On top of that it was passed by acclamation not roll call vote. No one had to take responsibility for the “legislation”. Let’s see this out of the NDAA and watch it collapse once it is exposed to a little debate.
“Shall not be infringed unless the firearm is made out of materials that cannot be seen by a 1980’s era metal detector” wouldn’t fit in the Amendment.
I’m not sure undetectable guns exist in the real world! Consider the component called ammunition. We are talking about guns. Guns are tools that cause the rapid propulsion of a projectile by means of explosive combustion. No current ammunition is undetectable nor are the springs and pins necessary to activate ammunition undetectable.
If undetectable is the criteria, there are numerous other means of propulsion including rubber bands and inertial slings that fit the bill for exotic weapons that are undetectable and really do work.
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