Ban Of Device By ATF Triggers Inventor's Ire (NRA Alert)

TBO.com ^ | 12/26/2007 | CHRISTIAN M. WADE

[devane617]

Government at work...

[Lurker]

"That's not what the Akins Accelerator does," he said. "It isn't a gun. It isn't a machine gun. It's an accessory; that's all it is. These guys are making it up as they go along."

They've been doing that for years.

Of course the ATF is well known for it's Institutional Perjury.

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[MeanWestTexan]

Can’t wait for Mitt Romney, Huckabee, or Hillary to put these guys in charge of our health care!

[rightwingextremist1776]

He should publish his design drawings under his 1st amendment rights...let them try to stop THAT....

[coloradan]

The NRA understood his dilemma, a spokesman told him, but didn't have a dog in the fight.

This is as good a statement as any about what's wrong with the NRA. Do they, or don't they, have a dog in the fight between an abusive and mercurial ATFE vs. lawful US citizen gun owners?

[coloradan]

Even if they didn’t try to stop it, they can (and would) say that anyone making one is committing a federal felony, just as if they were making PCP.

[sure_fine]

that ought to drive the price of one up like a rocketship

[TLI]

the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives banned the Accelerator - two years after approving it.

The very heart of the issue and it is my understanding the end of the road garbage pit of government agences.

[onja]

In all fairness, if automatics are illegal, this accelerator should too.

I’m just amazed that neither side did their job in the initial testing procedures. I presume that both knew it was supposed to be similar to a machine gun, but when it didn’t operate properly, they didn’t double-check with another copy.

[BenLurkin]

Have one of these things ever been used in a crime?

Ever?

[Clint Williams]

Shortly after, federal regulators issued a new ruling: The Akins Accelerator is prohibited under the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Hey, isn't it wonderful living under the rule of law?

We should try it sometime.

[CodeToad]

“This is as good a statement as any about what’s wrong with the NRA.”

The NRA is about keeping the NRA in business. It never was about the 2nd amendment.

[wastedyears]

So why should we ask the government to exercise our God-given rights?

[ICE-FLYER]

The ATF is an unchecked institution of power whose dictates are somehow law and upheld by a lot of judges. This needs to end...they are NOT the congress and they can NOT INVENT law and neither can Judges.

[RandallFlagg]

That was until the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives banned the Accelerator

I wish someone would ban the BATF.

[LouAvul]

BATFE doing what it does. Them and the IRS repeatedly invalidating their useless existence.

I keep reading that there are more guns in private ownership in America than ever before and I believe it. What I want to know is, when are America's gun owners going to stand up for their/our constitutional rights and demand Congress eliminate useless govt bureaucracy?

That was my problem while living in kalifornistan. Those idiots-in-residence (arnold and company) kept erasing our 2A rights. Kalifornistan has enough gun owners to start their own political party if they wanted. But few really cared enough to actually try to do anything.

So, I moved, and kal deserves what they get. As does the rest of the country if we allow these abuses to continue.

[Migraine]

If the ATF is anti-gun AND would like to have fewer guns operational in the country, they should be FOR the use of the device. Fastest way to ruin a gunbarrel is to machinegun a barrel that wasn’t designed for it.

[Dumpster Baby]

This has a high Nifty Factor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P8AbTKvykE

[longtermmemmory]

If they said it was legal and then it was not legal, then this is a taking of property entitled to compensation.

Taking of property does not mean just land, there is property of the intellect, property of the person, property of the conscience etc.

He would have a takings claim.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Akins, 54, is an expert marksman, ex-Marine,

You'd think that since Mr. Wade properly capitalized Marine that he would also realize there are no "ex-Marines".

Mr. Akins is a former Marine.