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Posted on 04/21/2022 5:26:23 AM PDT by marktwain
On 11 April 2022, the Biden administration released the final version of a proposed rule which changes the definition of what is a firearm. The rule was signed by Attorney General Merrick Garland on April 10th. The final rule published in the Federal Register will be the definitive copy.
In the last days of the Johnson administration, in 1968, President Johnson managed to push through an unpopular, ineffective, and costly bill: the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA 1968). Johnson’s legendary ability to twist arms and manage votes, supported by an all-out onslaught in the media, used the assassination of Robert Kennedy as the crisis needed to pass the bill.
President Johnson was disappointed the bill did not include national registration of all guns and a national carry permit system. From presidency.uscb, quoting Johnson in his public remarks on GCA 1968:
Congress adopted most of our recommendations. But this bill–as big as this bill is–still falls short, because we just could not get the Congress to carry out the requests we made of them. I asked for the national registration of all guns and the licensing of those who carry those guns. For the fact of life is that there are over 160 million guns in this country–more firearms than families. If guns are to be kept out of the hands of the criminal, out of the hands of the insane, and out of the hands of the irresponsible, then we just must have licensing. If the criminal with a gun is to be tracked down quickly, then we must have registration in this country.
In the late 1960s, it was thought gun registration and licensing would reduce violent crime. The definitive studies of English gun control failure
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Just a variation of the theme "Guns are Bad".
I am curious to know what the procedure would be to request a serial number for a home made gun. Is it free or do I have to pay for the request? Do you have to request a serial number before you start building a home made gun or after it is finished? How long can you have a finished gun before you have to make the request?
If it is free and the request is required before you start building a gun, everyone who believes in the 2A, should request a number. The number of guns in the US would appear to explode. If they come looking for that gun, you just changed your mind and never built it. Talk about ghost guns, these would be guns that exist on paper only.
On the other hand, since I live in a “may issue” state, a national carry permit might not be such a bad idea.
I might actually be able to get one. /shock
You need to live in a “shall issue” state.
There is no federal requirement for a serial number for a homemade gun.
Some states have a requirement, such as California. I have heard the bureaucratic requirements for obtaining a serial number in California, are so burdensome, that no one has been able to obtain such a number for a homemade gun.
At the time, I am sure the Johnson administration idea for a national gun license was to follow the British model.
Make the license relatively easy, but "may issue" at first. Then keep making it more and more restrictive, until very few have it.
Hey, hey, LBJ, why don't you just go away? CRIMINALS DO NOT OBEY LAWS. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY'D OBEY A REGISTRATION LAW?
Ping.
….say what you will about McConnell, but he kept this Garland hack off the SC....
Better a Constitutional Carry state. No permit requirement of any kind complies with the second amendment. What do they fail to comprehend about "shall not be infringed", anyway?
I do not think LBJ ever believed his own rhetoric. He was not stupid, just evil.
Registration has never been effective in stopping crime. Reducing crime is just an excuse governments use because they want total control over their populations.
That is what Constable Greenwood and Professor Joyce Lee Malcomb discovered in their independent research of the English gun laws.
It never was about crime.
It always was about control.
Article is right, plenty of older American made guns without serial numbers, and some foreign, and a lot still being used.
I had an old Bernardelli .25 caliber pistol with no serial number. I sold it to a collector and took it to a local gunshop to get it shipped (much easier for an FFL to ship a pistol vs doing it yourself). I was worried about the lack of serial number but the lady who did the paperwork just wrote ‘NSN’ in the place for the serial number. She said they handled a lot of old guns without them. She stuck it in a small Priority Mail Flat Rate box and off it went.
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I think we have 24-25 CC states now, but at 72 I’m not holding my breath that PA will join them. The GOP here are gutless, as usual.
This statement was patently stupid then, and (amazing!) still stupid today.
LBJ, Moronic Master of Incompetence.
PA voted to join them this year, with a considerable margin, on a partisan, party line vote.
Then your Democrat governor vetoed the bill.
I expect them to go Constitutional Carry when they get a Republican governor.
Meanwhile Biden is sending thousands of man portable surface to air missiles to unvetted militants in Ukraine. What could go wrong?
If your Form 1 creation is part of an NFA trust, you need to engrave the trust identification on the part with engraving deep enough to meet ATF requirements. I paid a local FFL with a specialized CNC milling machine to engrave my lower (still stripped to ease placement in the CNC mill).
Form 1 applies to NFA items - the receiver would have to be a full-auto receiver for this to be applicable.
Doing the finish work usually requires special tools, a fair bit of skill and time. I don't own those kind of tools, yet my tool investment for assembling an AR is still significant. Special torque wrenches, roll pin punches, jigs for holding parts in position for assembly, caliber specific go/no-go chamber gauges, lubricants, staking punches for BCG gas keys, a burring tool for securing a gas block on a barrel, specialized jig to hold the barrel while torquing the barrel nut on the upper receiver. It's a lot more work and expense than the average gang banger wants to do. It's easier for them to just steal one or buy a stolen weapon from another criminal.
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