A .75-calibre Brown Bess flintlock musket, capable of firing a lead ball at 1,000 feet per second, carries the power to kill. Yet, despite this, weapons like those used by redcoats in 1776 are largely exempt from gun regulations across the United States.
This legal loophole stems from federal and most state laws, which do not technically classify many antique or replica guns as “firearms.” Consequently, in numerous places, even convicted felons are permitted to own these potent historical weapons unrestricted.
“I suspect the average judge would be surprised to find that out,” remarked Dave Hardy, a Second Amendment scholar and gun-rights attorney, who proudly owns two Civil War-era long guns himself.
— Allen G. Breed in The bizarre firearms loophole around Americans and their deadly muskets
Its not a loop hole.
Is it a loop hole in the law that a person can own a 1960’s era vehicle classed as an ‘antique’ and the vehicle is 2,000 lbs of rolling metal that can mow down pedestrians?
Not everything people own that you dislike means there is a ‘loop hole’ in the law, moron.
The founders were so correct. Even hundreds of years later. England is still tyrannical in it’s government.
They have turned the country into a
“Surveillance state”. With government cameras everywhere. And the english people have started dressing up in “ninja outfits” , completely covered. And carrying battery operated saws, cutting these cameras down as a form of rebellion.
A government can now import a foreign army. And the allow foreigners to act as a control force. Against it’s own native born citizens.
Now that government can use foreign criminals to control it’s population. But in the United States, the 2nd amendment makes that extremely difficult to do in the USA.
As our founders had intended it to be.
AI Could Turn ATF’s 4473 Stockpile Into the Gun Registry Congress Banned.
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[note: There is a part in this article that references a previous claim by the Biden ATF. In testimony to congress former [Biden] ATF Director Steven Dettelbach basically claimed this was not a registry because it was not searchable by name because ATF pays to remove search functionality from Adobe files (.pdf) to comply with Congress’s ban. The files are digitized into .pdf files, the government uses Adobe for .pdf files – mostly uses Adobe would be more correct. Adobe is not the only software that can read or create or search .pdf files. What the ATF (supposedly) paid for is to removed the ability from .pdf files to be searched by Adobe only, not actually removing the search-ability of PDF files to be searched by other than Adobe. It is not true these files can not be searched, they can indeed be searched by various methods using other software packages the government uses as well.]
To add for the note above:
What the ATF supposedly paid for, supposedly to prevent these files from being searched, is actually a disabled software feature in the Adobe app. It can easily be re-enabled, its a software toggle. Plus, software other than Adobe can be used to search the files and are regularly used by various government agencies including the ATF for .pdf files.
House Unanimously Passes Massie’s NICS Transparency Bill After 5.1 Million Denials and Almost Zero Convictions.
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Key Takeaways
The US House passed Congressman Thomas Massie’s NICS Data Reporting Act, requiring the DOJ to publish demographic data on firearm purchase denials.
The bill aims to shed light on who receives denials under the federal background check system, highlighting potential civil rights issues.
NICS has issued over 5 million denials since 1998, yet there have been fewer than 1,000 federal prosecutions, raising questions about accuracy.
Massie’s argument emphasizes racial disparities and the need for transparency in NICS denials to address potential civil rights violations.
The bill now heads to the Senate, gaining traction as a rare unanimous vote on a gun-related issue.
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