Does anybody remember what happened when automatic weapons were relegated to the status of having to be registered to be owned? Were you required to come forward and register any existing automatics you had at the time? Or were they only accounted for when they were sold or transferred to somebody else?
If I understand it correctly, under the original 1934 act, you were not required to register any that were owned at the time. However, in 1968 the act was revised and I can't seem to find a straight answer to my question...
I'm curious what your thoughts are about what would happen if a similar scheme was implemented for semi-automatics...
And what is to stop the current administration from just revising the current regulations regarding automatics and semi-automatics?
Additionally, if I understand history correctly, during the revolutionary war, weren't the Americans, for the most part, on a similar footing with the British in regards to the types of weapons used? Each of the sides were using muskets, so no one had an advantage over the other in that regard...Now flash forward 200 years and the general citizens of the nation have been limited through regulations to inferior weapons when compared to troops or LE that would be used to control the population?? How is that not a subversion of the original intent of the 2nd amendment?
One more thought, after reading through information on previous court cases involving firearm regulation, I found that in 1939, the US Government actually argued before the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment protects only the ownership of military-type weapons appropriate for use in an organized militia...(United States v. Miller)
Where are we going???
If I understand it correctly, under the original 1934 act, you were not required to register any that were owned at the time. However, in 1968 the act was revised and I can't seem to find a straight answer to my question...
I'm curious what your thoughts are about what would happen if a similar scheme was implemented for semi-automatics...
And what is to stop the current administration from just revising the current regulations regarding automatics and semi-automatics?
Additionally, if I understand history correctly, during the revolutionary war, weren't the Americans, for the most part, on a similar footing with the British in regards to the types of weapons used? Each of the sides were using muskets, so no one had an advantage over the other in that regard...Now flash forward 200 years and the general citizens of the nation have been limited through regulations to inferior weapons when compared to troops or LE that would be used to control the population?? How is that not a subversion of the original intent of the 2nd amendment?
One more thought, after reading through information on previous court cases involving firearm regulation, I found that in 1939, the US Government actually argued before the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment protects only the ownership of military-type weapons appropriate for use in an organized militia...(United States v. Miller)
Where are we going???
