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I would like to post the following as a review of a book I gave up on finishing recently. I would like your help making sure I have my facts and ideas straight so I don't look like a idiot.
"I found Saving Capitalism an interesting book to start with, and had some ideas that I had not considered before. But I ran into a statement that stopped me short. That it is because of the power of the NRA people have a "right to buy even rapid fire machine guns", followed by a tongue in cheek comment that we should be glad the NRA stopped at machine guns instead of insisting on the right to own surface to air missiles and nuclear bombs as well. This statement shows a complete ignorance for the actual law. The 1968 gun control act gave the ATF the authority to regulate firearm sales, and banned the sale of destructive devices like bombs and missiles. The 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act banned the sale of new manufacture automatic weapons like machine guns. Previously owned machine guns were still legal to possess, but to transfer the firearm to another person the ATF would need to authorize the transfer. This is still the case today with the FBI verifying that the individual can own a firearm and the BATF authorizing the transfer in a process that can take 9 months to a year to complete. Stating that the NRA has the ability to force the BATF to authorize the transfer is ludicrous. It suggests that even BATF appointees of Presidents Obama and Clinton were somehow controlled by the NRA and forced to authorize the transfers, which they could stop authorizing at any time.
This ignorance of the law while making a seemingly factual statement about it shows me that I can have little faith in the accuracy of statements in the rest of the book. As such I could not complete more than ¼ of it."
"I found Saving Capitalism an interesting book to start with, and had some ideas that I had not considered before. But I ran into a statement that stopped me short. That it is because of the power of the NRA people have a "right to buy even rapid fire machine guns", followed by a tongue in cheek comment that we should be glad the NRA stopped at machine guns instead of insisting on the right to own surface to air missiles and nuclear bombs as well. This statement shows a complete ignorance for the actual law. The 1968 gun control act gave the ATF the authority to regulate firearm sales, and banned the sale of destructive devices like bombs and missiles. The 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act banned the sale of new manufacture automatic weapons like machine guns. Previously owned machine guns were still legal to possess, but to transfer the firearm to another person the ATF would need to authorize the transfer. This is still the case today with the FBI verifying that the individual can own a firearm and the BATF authorizing the transfer in a process that can take 9 months to a year to complete. Stating that the NRA has the ability to force the BATF to authorize the transfer is ludicrous. It suggests that even BATF appointees of Presidents Obama and Clinton were somehow controlled by the NRA and forced to authorize the transfers, which they could stop authorizing at any time.
This ignorance of the law while making a seemingly factual statement about it shows me that I can have little faith in the accuracy of statements in the rest of the book. As such I could not complete more than ¼ of it."