Sounds like the majority of California gun owners who don’t constantly keep up with the ever changing laws. Not sure how many times I’ve heard someone unaware of their once legal firearm turning them into a criminal without knowing.
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I wrote this so I agree. The part's of NFA that I think we could reasonably hope to impact are length and and sound suppression.
Eliminating barrel length and overall length provisions would make it a moot point as to what type of stock/brace/grip the thing wore.
The reason I think sound suppression would be easier to attain is because it is easier to demonstrate effectively and relate to as a quality of life issue for most folks.
OTOH, you start talking about barrel length and overall length and the average person is thinking sawed off shotguns and trench coats. Harder to demonstrate differently.
With a disclaimer that a) I understand that the braces were the NFA work-around from the beginning and b) I am not very familiar with the law I am about to mention, is it possible to challenge this new regulation on a basis of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Quote from the Act
b) Purpose
It is the purpose of this chapter
(1) to provide a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination against individuals with disabilities;
It's not about the $200.00 stamp for me, it's about the pain in the ass. You ought to be able to SBR a rifle by filling out the paperwork, having a NICS done, and a stamp issued - screw fingerprints and photos.
The government would get two things they want - more money, and a list of folks who own these evil weapons.
Fuck the ATF.
That's all I have to say on this matter on a public forum.
I’m with you. Fingerprints and photographs requirements are remnants of the law being old. It’s 2021 now and you can get a NICS background check done in minutes. If it’s a good enough background check to buy an AR with a 16” barrel or an actual handgun, I don’t know why it doesn’t work for buying an AR with an 11.5” barrel or a suppressor. The whole thing was intended to be a huge pain in the ass from the start. From the $200 tax, which was the equivalent of $4,000 or so back then, to fingerprints, photographs, CLEO concurrence, etc. Make it as difficult as possible to acquire these weapons legally, and the law abiding people won’t acquire many of them. Never stopped some gangster from adding a stock to an AR pistol or an auto-switch to a Glock but it sure inconveniences us.
Simply demonstrate how difficult it is to actually conceal a 10.5 inch barrel AR pistol with a 30 round magazine and brace - or even a simple buffer tube - in any way that provides meaningfully fast access. (Yes, a LAW folder simplifies concealment but also slows access.)
Show how much easier checking a bump in the night becomes with a short barrel.
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Lots of folks are missing the forest for the trees or the metapurpose of all of this. One offers little nitpicks on definitions or gun world rationales. So:
1. The idea is to tighten the noose about evil guns. Evil guns are semis and variants there of. Legislation is need to ban them but regulations can take out some low hanging fruit.
2. The antiguners need some wins as they probably can't pull off federal bans (they can at the state level - look at the NYS ghost gun law).
3. They will go for the work arounds of gun bans or tough regulations:
a. Can't have a full auto - get a bump stock - banned.
b. Can't have an SBR - get a brace.
c. Don't want a 'registered' gun, get a kit because you are a 'hobbyist'. Ghost guns are to avoid NICS for the most part.
Nitpicks on the tubes, lengths, etc. - irrelevant arguments to the purpose.
Schemes to ease up on the SBR rules with cheaper registration. Won't happen as the goal is to get rid of them. Even if they did - then the guns are 'registered' for the next round.
Say braces are for disability. Easy fix - make it like disability parking stickers. Get a doctor to sign off. Hard to do, 'registered' yet again. Millions of folks won't qualify. Certainly not folks running them in carbine matches (not official) and them folks running around at speed.
Make the case the the 'braced' pseudo-SBR is better for navigating at home. Well, you just said it was an SBR. Register it. Next, the anti folks don't give a crap about gun world blather about defending the home with an EBR of some sort. Folks shouldn't have guns period. 5 is enough. Get a shotgun! Shoot it into the air. The SBRs are easy for nuts to conceal - so you don't get one for your bedroom.
I'm surprised the Shockwave guns made it. Wait till they show up at a rampage and Adios to them.
We will not comply. Same old as we won't comply to an AWB. You get a gun useless for most usages for them in the present.
The next wave will be a complete attack on any semi auto long gun. The Ruger Mini-14s and PCC have avoid bans but the smarter folks in the anti gun movement know this. Minis have been used in some rampages and other countries (Norway, Canada, IIRC) are after them. Now, taking them out can be done in two ways. Total bans - hard to do or mag bans to limit them. The state compliant ARs are weird little dodges but when someone uses one of them - as a NY compliant weird stocked AR with multiple 10 round mags - they will be gone. Just ban all mag fed guns. You can have a weird AR with top loading and wacky speed loaders in NY.
To return to my old refrain, unless SCOTUS does a clear decision about gun bans and/or legislation to stop such (fat chance), we will see local bans and federal regulatory nibbles.