Re: What's going on with the AWB? Is going to finally go away?

"David Halpern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Those high prices for Full Auto have nothing to do with NFA-34 but
> > everything to do with the Hughes Amendment which as added at the last
> > minute (and the NRA did not protest) to the Firearm Owner's Protection
> > Act. It froze the number of transferable on a form 4 the NFA registry
> > to those on there in May-85.
> 
> Ah correction May 19, 1986 :)
> 
> Until then, Special Occupation Taxpayers
> > (machine gun manufacturers) could put new guns on the Registry or
> > convert a gun you already owned.
> >
> > You can thank a Republican President for signing this and the NRA for
> > not saying one word about stopping it.
> >
> > http://www.tpgfaq.org/ap1/gffopa.htm

Was that little provision known about by RWR when he signed the law?
I was under the impression that it was something of a sneak attack.

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