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Machine Guns WEREN'T Banned? (Hughes Amendment fraud by Charlie Rangel)
The Market Ticker ^ | 2011-01-27 12:27 | Karl Denninger

Posted on 01/27/2011 10:17:25 AM PST by The Comedian

Background: In 1986 an amendment called "The Hughes Amendment" was allegedly attached to wider firearms legislation in The House and passed. This amendment made unlawful the private ownership of machine guns manufactured after 1986.

Today, you can own a machine gun, but the Hughes Amendment, H.A.#777, effectively created a "sinking stock" of such weapons that will eventually dwindle to zero as they wear out. Hundreds of people have been convicted of violating this law since, some when their weapons have malfunctioned rather than being intentionally modified.

There's a problem with this law, however. It appears that the amendment was never actually passed.

Archival footage of the actual House session has been found and is reproduced here.

Note who's standing up there with the gavel. That's Chairman Rangel. Yes, that Charlie Rangel. And by the way, you can see quite-clearly that The House Committee at the time was damn close to being in full-on revolt at the time Rangel was allegedly "Chairing" it!

Watch the video. It is quite clear that not only did the voice vote on the amendment fail but in addition it appears, if someone hasn't tampered with this video, that there was an electronic recorded vote that went down on the question as well. (more at link)

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; congress; corruption; democrats; denninger; guns; hughes; rangel; ticker
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To: ozzymandus
Common knowledge, yes. But never provable.

Now we can.

Better late than never...

21 posted on 01/27/2011 1:17:19 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III%. The last line in the sand)
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To: The Comedian

http://keepvid.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Da6Mx2UcSEvQ%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded


22 posted on 01/27/2011 2:07:03 PM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: Noumenon

Yeah, and do 10 years in a federal pen like one of my friends!!


23 posted on 01/27/2011 2:09:12 PM PST by spitter
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To: spitter

That’s why that side plate is still sitting at 80% finished.


24 posted on 01/27/2011 2:13:23 PM PST by Noumenon ("We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.")
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To: Noumenon

It’s a helluva thing that side plate is still sitting at 80%
when you have every right to fnish it!!!


25 posted on 01/27/2011 2:33:55 PM PST by spitter
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To: The Comedian

Doesn’t matter.

We haven’t been a country of laws for a while, but regulations. The BATF boys will kill you and your dog if you build one.


26 posted on 01/27/2011 3:23:28 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: taxcontrol
Wouldn’t the easy route be to find someone who was convicted for posession of a post 1986 weapon and go to the court to get the conviction overturned?

Not likely to succeed. Google "enrolled bill doctrine."

27 posted on 01/27/2011 3:31:31 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: GYL2; Spirochete

Look at it the proper way: how many laws on the books don’t mean spit, because Dem JUDGES ignored the clear meaning of the statutes and substituted new “interpretations” that became controlling “case law”?


28 posted on 01/27/2011 5:24:07 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: redgolum
Little secret here. If we ALL build them, they will run out of Agents before we run out of self-defense measures.

A government only lasts while people still believe in it. Once that is gone, they can only retain power through fear and force. Guess which side of that equation we are currently on?

29 posted on 01/28/2011 6:15:15 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III%. The last line in the sand)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Hmmm things like the NICS implementation law – wasn’t the idea that the data for those checks to be destroyed ‘Immediately?’

My apologies if my earlier comment sounded wrong by the way I worded it – my intention was to point out that it seems like a lot of law passed by the dems is by underhanded methods – things like Obamacare.

But you have a good point – it does seem like if the dems can’t pass their agenda by legislative action they use judicial action – which his often contrary to the will of the people or the Constitution.


30 posted on 02/02/2011 6:00:33 AM PST by GYL2 (Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson)
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