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.
It’s a loophole that many commenters find themselves blocked from posting too much on SNW, presented by the site with a “slow down you’re commenting too quickly” message and seeing their posts blocked for the remainder of the day. Yet one person has full permission to post up to 15 at a time. Almost as if he has special permission the rest of us don’t. Curious, that…
It might have been enough to drive legacy longtimers like Goeff and JWM away.
i read that as go eff…
My, what a gold plated moron you are. Literal-minded child. It’s called a figure of speech, idiot.
Don’t bother. gfys
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.
look at what’s up to the north. not workin’ out too well, (non) assimilation being a thing
People mistake when they imagine 1984 is not a rule book…
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.
So much weak and gay in one short article. Some people were simply born to be slaves.
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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ht* tps://www.usacarry.com/house-unanimously-passes-massies-nics-transparency-bill-after-5-1-million-denials-and-almost-zero-convictions/
I remember the British. They once controlled a vast global empire. Strong and proud. Whatever happened to them?
“Whatever happened to them?”
Well, the government is busy trying to become the ‘United Soc* ialist Republic of Islam LGBTQ+ and Rape’ so they can kill each other to feel superior. The new flag will be a purple flag with a rainbow question mark and a pic of a bearded guy in a turban. And the native sane citizens are trying to take their country back.
If you haven’t already done so, read “The Death of the West.”
They gave guns to wogs and beer to the unemployed commoners.
They went homo and jumped in bed with Allah.
“go goat go!” by p.d. eastslam.
Any effort to ‘close’ the so-called ‘loophole’ is, in the words of the late Jeff Cooper, ‘an ingenious solution to a non-existant problem.’ When is the last time we saw hordes of gang-bangers brandishing flintlock pistols sideways?
As for the Brits, they’re still p***ed we reenact the battles where we kicked their a**es.
they are welcome to take their rightful place on the other team if they like.
antiques, flintlocks. modern black powders are way more important in this discussion. as in silenced rifle or ruger revolver.
Wait until they discover that revolvers, lever action rifles, and shotguns manufactured before 1899 — which can fire modern ammunition — aren’t considered firearms either!
E.g., you can be kitted out like the participants at the OK Corral, and if you have actual antique firearms from that period (or which there are hundreds of thousands out there), none of them are “firearms” subject to federal law at all!
And, of course, muzzle loading cannons aren’t “firearms” under federal law either . . . .
Wait til they find out that manually operated Gatling Guns are both legal and easily transported…
As I understand California law, a felon could own a muzzle-loading firearm as long as it’s unloaded. Once loaded, it becomes a firearm. I suspect other states have similar laws.
And yet, somehow, it just never seems to be a problem. Urban gangsters just aren’t running around doing New York reloads with cap-and-ball revolvers.
Why, it’s almost as if career criminals don’t bother looking for creative ways to comply with the law, since they never had any intention of complying at all.
For years, we have been told that “the 2nd Amendment was only written for MUSKETS!!!” Well, if so, how can these same fools now say that muskets shouldn’t be covered, either? Because they are fools, I guess.