And it isn't just about importation.
This is what happened a few years before the AWB of 1994.
They are going after the "EVIL" featyres and ignoring the reality of modern sporting purposes.
Now what does this mean for us?
It means that the ATF can simply declare that your grand daddy's pump is a Destructive device if it has rails, pistol grip long tube, etc.
Hell, these bastards are ignoring the sporit of hog hunting at night where you need rails for lights and red dot sights!
Look, this is where the bastards are going!
They did it in 1989 and then in 1994 for domestic shotguns!
this time they will do it without Congres by declaring shotguns with these "EVIL FEATURES" to be destructive devices!
NEver forget!
NEVER forgive!
Well they are coming after grandad's pump now.
So 3 Gun and 2 gun isn't sporting?
Every gun owner should email the BATFE and their congressional reps immediatly.
ATF may not have ruled on the shotguns but the plant has stopped making them due to QA issues and focus. There'll be a shortage restocking. Importers have been shaken up a bit with a reorg of their own and the Discovery Channel has a new show featuring the Saiga shotguns very prominently.Just wondering if an anti-Saiga shotgun ruling happened today. A lot of internet chatter, and panic buying due to an alleged move by the ATF to classify the Saiga a destructive device.
Thanks,
What did I just say about practical shooting sports? I'm actually scared at how right I was.Further, both studies concluded that the scope of “sporting
purposes” did not include all lawful activity, but was limited to traditional sports such as hunting,
skeet shooting, and trap shooting. This effectively narrowed the universe of firearms considered
by each study because a larger number of firearms are “particularly suitable for or readily
adaptable to a sporting purpose” if plinking4 and police or military-style practical shooting
competitions are also included as a “sporting purpose.”
(d) The Attorney General shall authorize a firearm or ammunition
to be imported or brought into the United States or any possession
thereof if the firearm or ammunition -
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(3) is of a type that does not fall within the definition of a
firearm as defined in section 5845(a) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 and is generally recognized as particularly suitable
for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes, excluding surplus
military firearms, except in any case where the Attorney General
has not authorized the importation of the firearm pursuant to
this paragraph, it shall be unlawful to import any frame,
receiver, or barrel of such firearm which would be prohibited if
assembled
(a) Firearm The term ''firearm'' means (1) a shotgun having a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length; (2) a weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length; (3) a rifle having a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; (4) a weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; (5) any other weapon, as defined in subsection (e); (6) a machinegun; (7) any silencer (as defined in section 921 of title 18, United States Code); and (8) a destructive device.
Unlike sporting shotguns,
military firearms are larger, heavier, and generally more rugged.
I thought the Obamanation administration was coming to the center?