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Question about the machine gun "ban"

MosinNagantDisciple
Can someone steer me to the actual law codes that make it illegal to register newly-made machine guns?

I've been searching through US Code Title 18, ?921-931 and I cant find anything about it. From what I've read, the "ban" is actually a bureaucratic snafu which makes it impossible for the ATF to accept the tax associated with registering a machine gun. If they can't accept the tax, then they cannot register any more machine guns.

I want to investigate the laws as they are written. All I can find are paraphrased explanations derived from Wikipedia and other sites. So, any help would be very much appreciated.
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  • dcinffxva
    It was a passage slipped into the fierarm owners protection act of 1986. I'll see if I can find it, and re-post.

    Here is one link from the USDOJ

    http://www.usdoj.gov/archive/opd/AppendixC.htm
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  • dcinffxva
    And it was the Hughes Amendment that dealt with the machine gun issue

    http://www.gunlawnews.org/FOPA-86.html
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  • AZEX
    Title 18 USC s/s 922 (o).

    Basically all of subsection 922 is a series of import and manufacturing bans.

    D.
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  • MosinNagantDisciple
    quote:Originally posted by AZEX
    Title 18 USC s/s 922 (o).

    Basically all of subsection 922 is a series of import and manufacturing bans.

    D.


    Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for. Much more explicit and succinct than I was expecting.
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  • AZEX
    YW.

    D.
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  • bigdaddyjunior
    All of the restrictive gun laws are based on interstate commerce which Congress has authority over. They have never openly tried to pass anti-gun laws per-se, only laws dealing with the manufacture, distribution and sale of guns. When they originally tried back in the 20's to outright ban machine guns they ran into a legal brick wall called the 2nd amendment. The pulled the old DC two-step and regulated them out of the reach of most people by adding a $200 tax per gun. That was during the depression when they knew damn well no-one would spend $200 for a single gun tax. By the 60's $200 wasn't so bad and regular people started buying full autos again at what the government weenies considered an alarming rate so they broke the law and required registration of machine guns and sold it by calling it an amnesty as long as you paid the $200 per gun. I often wonder where the NRA was during these times of rampant abuse and outright illegal acts. All of these laws dealing with full autos have done nothing except make a gun that a police unit buys for $1600 cost an honest, extremely law abiding fellow $16,000. Once again as in the depression era they have crafted the rules so that only the wealthy can afford this one particular type of arm. Seems like the ACLU would be all over this obvious discrimination against the poor and down trodden.
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  • MosinNagantDisciple
    quote:Originally posted by bigdaddyjunior
    All of the restrictive gun laws are based on interstate commerce which Congress has authority over. They have never openly tried to pass anti-gun laws per-se, only laws dealing with the manufacture, distribution and sale of guns. When they originally tried back in the 20's to outright ban machine guns they ran into a legal brick wall called the 2nd amendment. The pulled the old DC two-step and regulated them out of the reach of most people by adding a $200 tax per gun. That was during the depression when they knew damn well no-one would spend $200 for a single gun tax. By the 60's $200 wasn't so bad and regular people started buying full autos again at what the government weenies considered an alarming rate so they broke the law and required registration of machine guns and sold it by calling it an amnesty as long as you paid the $200 per gun. I often wonder where the NRA was during these times of rampant abuse and outright illegal acts. All of these laws dealing with full autos have done nothing except make a gun that a police unit buys for $1600 cost an honest, extremely law abiding fellow $16,000. Once again as in the depression era they have crafted the rules so that only the wealthy can afford this one particular type of arm. Seems like the ACLU would be all over this obvious discrimination against the poor and down trodden.


    Ha, the ACLU. They would be pretty buusy with the second amendment if it weren't for one thing: they (quite conveniently) have decided that the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to the individual, rather it applies to a state militia.

    Huh, thats funny. I dont see any other right within the Bill of Rights that applies only to the government. [:(!]
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  • iwannausername
    MND - see my signature :)

    quote:Originally posted by MosinNagantDisciple


    Ha, the ACLU. They would be pretty buusy with the second amendment if it weren't for one thing: they (quite conveniently) have decided that the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to the individual, rather it applies to a state militia.

    Huh, thats funny. I dont see any other right within the Bill of Rights that applies only to the government. [:(!]
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