True, but the bill also contained lots of good stuff. Like taking the wind out of the BATFs sails, for a while at least, like removing the recording of every "handgun" ammunition sale (including all .22 rimfire), removing the prohibition on buy ammunition interstate w/o a FFL, and probably most importantly, prohibiting states and localitis from charging you with a crime, for merely transporting an unloaded and locked away firearm accross their jurisidiction, even if you didn't intend to *be* in their jurisdiction. The machine gun ban was a last minute, literally, addition to the bill. If the President had a line item veto, he might have vetoed that part. (In any event, it merely awaits the proper interpretaion of the wording to return to the previously existing arrangement, even though what is being enforced is the intent of the Clymer that offered that amendment, rather than what the law actually says)