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Legalizing Silencers and SBRs?

Personally I believe that the DEA is just waiting for a big name figure head in the "Legal Weed" industry states to come along that they can make an example of. They probably already have a few picked out. Once they determine who is the richest and highest profile figure in that bidness they will get all ninja'd up blow his front door off the hinges for the cameras and then show off all the assets they just seized for the war on drugs. They need the photo op.
Think about it. They're obviously afraid to go to the border and deal with the main point of entry for damn near all narcotics. It's much easier to go bust some millionaire stoner type. And they will either wait until they figure out which one has the most toys and cash to seize OR they will do it when they need to divert attention from a scandal in their agency.
When the ATF guys decided to raid the Waco compound instead of taking the advice of the local LE guys who said they could just call and get Koresh to come on down for an interview they had problems with a sexual harassment situation about to agents that was about to go public.
 
The "loophole" for state legalization of marijuana at first was the medical marijuana card and then when states "legalized" recreational use, the Obama administration basically let it be known that they weren't going to make an issue of it. Yes, pot is still illegal at a federal level. It's like the "sanctuary city" argument. If the courts are going to argue the Trump administration can't punish cities for actively disobeying federal law, the same should apply to other issues.

States legalizing suppressors, sanctuary cities for full-auto owners, etc. I just think it would be impossible to get enough state elected officials willing to have their state be the test case given the firestorm you know would be coming.
 
It is confusing. I found this explanation in the LA Times: “It doesn’t matter if a state has said you can consume it. When you are crossing state lines … to another state, even if it’s another state that has a law on their books, with a federal illegal product that’s interstate commerce and that’s a problem. You want to indulge while you’re there (or any other place where recreational use is allowed)? Buy it there, use it there and leave it there when it’s time to come home." I suspect suppressors are regulated at the federal level for the same reasons... commerce and interstate travel.

There are probably more good posts on this in the https://www.theoutdoorstrader.com/forums/class-iii-nfa-discussion.112/ forum.
Funny, but the LALA Times doesn't seem to have the same idea of the limitations of "interstate commerce" about other issues.
(Neither do politicians, of either party.)
 
Frankly, the whole idea of commerce that isn't 'interstate' these days is laughable. Back in the 1700s the idea that something could be created, used and be destroyed/consumed in a single state was pretty accurate.

Today there's no way you could make even the simplest items without at least some raw materials or tools that come from other states, and probably other countries. The whole idea of commerce that only touches one state is something that's simply impossible today.
 
Personally I believe that the DEA is just waiting for a big name figure head in the "Legal Weed" industry states to come along that they can make an example of. They probably already have a few picked out. Once they determine who is the richest and highest profile figure in that bidness they will get all ninja'd up blow his front door off the hinges for the cameras and then show off all the assets they just seized for the war on drugs. They need the photo op.
Think about it. They're obviously afraid to go to the border and deal with the main point of entry for damn near all narcotics. It's much easier to go bust some millionaire stoner type. And they will either wait until they figure out which one has the most toys and cash to seize OR they will do it when they need to divert attention from a scandal in their agency.
When the ATF guys decided to raid the Waco compound instead of taking the advice of the local LE guys who said they could just call and get Koresh to come on down for an interview they had problems with a sexual harassment situation about to agents that was about to go public.

There wont be a figurehead. It will be large corporations like Monsanto and Bayer. They are already making strong moves and nobody is going to **** with them.
 
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