Repeal the hughes amendment

[ileus]

http://www.change.org/petitions/united-states-congress-repeal-the-hughes-amendment-of-the-fopa



Help make America a better place to own firearms...you can start here.


Or if you want just take the family to the local range and show your support.

[Hoyt]

1. The right wing groups/militias will love having a few fully auto weapons (machine guns).

[GreenStormCloud]

2. Since 1934 how many crimes have been committed with LEGALLY owned full-auto?

The answer is: TWO. Two crimes in 78 years. That doesn't sound like much of a problem to me.

[gejohnston]

5. IIRC, one of those SMGs might have been registered to the local PD

the cop that murdered his informant.

[GreenStormCloud]

9. Yes, it was. For a long time it was the only crime with a legal full-auto. N/T

[Trunk Monkey]

14. How many have been committed with ILLEGALLY owned full auto weapons?

I can't imagine the same cartels that move hundreds of thousands of tons of drugs into our country every year would have much of a problem getting a machine gun or two in

[gejohnston]

15. In the US? I doubt many

because of the price and the mandatory min. of 30 years having one for committing federal crimes. Mexico and Europe? Not so much.

[GreenStormCloud]

23. Irrelevant. The discussion is about LEGALLY owned full-auto.

Stopping me from having full-auto doesn't stop a criminal from having full-auto. BTW - I don't want full-auto anyway, even if it was legal. Full-auto is a great way to turn ammo into noise with no guarantee of hitting anything. To be controllable a sub-machinegun has to be too large to be concealable. And full-auto is EXPENSIVE to feed.

[ileus]

3. At least they'd finally be affordable for the 99%er's shooter.

I don't know about your RW/militia claim..


However.com

There's big money in full auto's, now the systems is rigged to where it's a dealer/LEO/ 1%er plaything ; bringing affordable full autos to the 99% of us should be a desire for every progressive gun owner.

Even though I'd still have little or no use for one unless is was chambered in the affordable to shoot 22lr. (some videos on youtube if interested)

This would make it legal to sell new manufactured autos to the 99% of us, and still keep NFA laws intact to weed out the riff-raff.

[Hoyt]

8. Only reason they are big money is that a lot of gun nuts have to have one. That is sick.

[slackmaster]

12. People like them because they are interesting, and one more thing that people like Hoyt despise...

They are fun to shoot.

[NewMoonTherian]

18. If I made purchases based on what Hoyt despises, I'd be destitute. n/t

[Trunk Monkey]

20. I like guns

but I lost all interest in owning a fully automatic weapon the first time I had to hump an M-60 on a 25 mile road march.

I wouldn't mind an M1928 but I'd hate to have to pay to feed it

[ileus]

21. Nope the big money was created when the Fed said none shall pass....

after May, 19 1986....the cost was artificially created by a bogus feel good law.


The law of supply and demand works it seems...Lift this ban and we can all have a chance at owning one of the finest machines ever devised by mankind.

Of course feeding the wonderful devices is still another story.

[NewMoonTherian]

4. Thank you for posting this!

Are gun owners in this country finally going to come together and start the work of doing away with this unconstitutional piece of garbage?

Repealing the Hughes Amendment is the first step, and a big one that will right a great wrong, but our eventual goal should be to completely rework, or scrap and replace the NFA.



EDIT: I signed and invited all my FB friends to do the same. 200 more signatures is not that lofty a goal. Let's get this done by next week, shall we?

[Hoyt]

7. Good Democrat sponsored Amendment, and you guys are going to hope Republicans repeal it based upon

your petitions. How nice.

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13. I fixed it for you...

Good Shady, shifty Democrat sponsored Amendment...

[NewMoonTherian]

17. You forgot a couple things.

Shady, shifty Democrat sponsored Amendment, passed through criminally fraudulent means without the support of a majority of the House of Representatives. A D in front of the author's name does not a good amendment make. I hope the Republicans and Democrats work together to redeem the reputation of Congress by trashing this travesty of a law.

[NewMoonTherian]

19. Yes. I absolutely cannot wait until it is repealed.

And then I'm going to start petitioning against another bad law, and another, and another, until I'm dead or there are no more bad laws. Call me an idealist.

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11. Another NFA amnesty would be nice too.

The last one was in late 68.

Since then... there's no telling how many bring backs, firearms of historical significance have been sent to the smelter, and/or still squirreled away in grand dads attic.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

10. I agree 100%...

[Glaug-Eldare]

16. Hold on now, think about all the investment guns!

The value of their retirement guns will plumment!

[Johnny Rico]

22. I'm safe...my investment guns are mostly 98%+ semiautos from the first half of the 20th Century.

Like this one:



Oh, I'm sorry...was that gun porn?

[Marinedem]

24. The Hughes ammendment blows.

It's classist and in blatant defiance of the 2nd amendment to it''s very core. It needs to be gone yesterday.

As someone said earlier, down with one unjust piece of legislation, then onto the rest!

[safeinOhio]

25. Feel free to donate tons of $

to have the NRA take this one to the Suprems. Good luck.

[gejohnston]

26. SAF goes to the Supremes

NRA tries to torpedo the cases and claim credit for fundraising.

[Meiko]

27. I'd love to see it repealed

I could finally afford some company for my M11. Full auto's are fun, just plain fun. Yes they are expensive to shoot but I don't shoot mine that often.The real problem with owning one is all the damned paperwork you have to do, it's ridiculous. Mine has a suppressor so I got the double whammy. It is just an organized screw job by the Fed's. Then you have to pay the $200.00 tax for each item. Some items like short barreled shotguns are less I believe. I would definitely like to see this amendment go away.