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Dont know how you figure that the 1986 gun control act wasn't gun control when in the same breath you state it effected machine guns. I thought a machine gun was a gun. You cant pick and choose if the zebra has stripes. By all standards the 1986 act was and is gun control.
Well. That was an amendment added to the bill by a Democrat( Representative William J. Hughes, D-NJ) in order to "poison" the bill.
Lets see. This infringes on firearm owners..how? Its the other way around and is the main subject of the law.One of the law's provisions (codified in section 926A of title 18 of the U.S. Code) was that persons traveling from one place to another have a defense for any state firearms offense in a state that has strict gun control laws if the traveler is just passing through (short stops for food and gasoline), provided that the individual is not otherwise prohibited from possession of a firearm, the firearms and ammunition are not readily accessible, that the firearms are unloaded and, in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver's compartment, the firearms are located in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console.[11][12]
This section has also been interpreted to protect air travel.[13][14]
Definitions of certain terms in the law include:
- Transporting. Not staying for any determined length of time. Passing through on the way to some place.
- Unloaded. No ammunition in the firearm. In the case of McDaniel v. Arnold, the courts upheld a conviction based on the interpretation that the accused had a loaded firearm despite not having a round in the chambered position.[15]
- Not readily accessible. There are no clear court decisions or interpretations available but this term is widely regarded as meaning Not capable of being reached quickly for operation.
- Locked container. A hard-sided container that is locked such as to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access.
And this is another pro 2A section of the law, while yes it does maintain that the NFA 1934 act requires registration of NFA firearms, it also states that no other firearms are legally to be registered.. (a slap in the face of the previous handgun registeration laws in some States...)The Act also forbade the U.S. Government agency from keeping a registry directly linking non-National Firearms Act firearms to their owners, the specific language of this law (Federal Law 18 U.S.C. 926 (18 U.S. Code § 926 - Rules and regulations)) being:
No such rule or regulation prescribed [by the Attorney General] after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or disposition be established. Nothing in this section expands or restricts the Secretary's authority to inquire into the disposition of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation.