Supreme Court’s “Ghost Gun” Ruling Accidentally Paves Way For Next-Gen 80% Firearms [More]
Don’t go celebrating the workaround just yet.
Another lawsuit and another injunction and we’re back to Square One. And if “common use” is the new standard, I wouldn’t be looking at “uncommon tools” as a solution.
[Via bondmen]
I’m remembering the Assault Weapon Ban of 1994. You know, the one that didn’t ban any assault weapons. (Nobody was required to turn in one they already owned.)
Colt, Springfield Armory, and a cast of thousands cut the bayonet lugs off and/or only partially milled the slots in their flash hiders and, abracadabra, a banned assault weapon became a legal to sell firearm that wasn’t an assault weapon because it now lacked the requisite number of purely cosmetic features as specified by federal law.
All of the usual suspect brayed that the manufacturers were “exploiting loopholes” by building firearms that complied with the new law.
Twain was right. History doesn’t repeat but it does occasionally rhyme.
“This is gonna be good!” — Melissa “Missy” Cooper (Sheldon’s twin sister)
Where’s that bag of Orville Redenbacher popcorn?