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Michigan Gov. Repeals Ban on Short-Barreled Rifles
Breitbart ^ | 30 Mar 2014 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 03/31/2014 5:56:13 AM PDT by xzins

Last week Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) signed legislation repealing that state's ban on privately owned short-barreled rifles and shotguns.

Buyers of short-barreled rifles and shotguns still face extra scrutiny at the federal level via the National Firearms Act. This requires them to undergo a background check, "pay a $200 federal tax, and register these firearms with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives."

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KEYWORDS: 2damendment; banglist; guns
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To: Paladin2

ATF BS.

Made up rules which do NOTHING to stop crime.


61 posted on 04/01/2014 2:58:24 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: cherokee1
Until recent times it was always about gummint income, not safety or bans, the rules created tax income for those guns falling outside the rules-——no more—no less.

No it's about control. The laws cost more to enforce than they get in revenue.

The laws on both silencers and short rifles were "sold" on the basis that only criminals would need to conceal the sound of their shooting, with an implication of assassinations, and the same is true of short rifles, only criminal assassins would "need" them.

But of course the NFA is just as unconstitutional as any other gun control law that bans whole classes of arms from general ownership, or taxes such ownership. A tax on exercising a Constitutionally protected right, unless it's part of a broader tax, like a general sales tax, is an "infringement".

62 posted on 04/06/2014 5:56:39 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato
Even the ban/tax on automatic weapons was sold, with help from Hollywood, as affecting only gangsters.
63 posted on 04/06/2014 5:59:00 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: duffee
I don’t know that I’ll ever deer hunt with it. I deer hunt with either a 30/06 or a 45/70 govt

Some states do not allow deer hunting with a rifle. But, at least some, states do allow rifled shotguns.

64 posted on 04/06/2014 6:01:49 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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