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Where's the beef?
Renewed my MSI membership yesterday. Thanks for the reminder.
Renewed my MSI membership yesterday. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you. We can act on behalf of members. We can't act on behalf of NON members.
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This article appeared on WTOP this afternoon, attributed to ABC Radio - https://wtop.com/maryland/2018/05/atf-cant-save-bump-stock-owners-maryland-ban/
Cliff version is ATF will not create an authorization process and current owners are screwed. At least, that's how I read it.
It seems like including a provision that an existing owner cannot possibly fulfill, through no fault of their own, that results in an outright ban makes for a pretty good case to overturn the law, but I'm not a lawyer.
The article also mentions ATF classifying bump stocks as machine guns, which, according to the writer, would amount to a federal ban.
Hogan asked for it, got it, signed it into law.
I still feel it’s unconstitutional because of the taking clause but apparently Maryland and governor hogan do not
Say good by to you stuff
And it’s just a foot in the door to banning firearms and accessories
As I expected. We have no recourse to own them after them after October.
I have one more Echo II left that I'm selling so I don't get hung up in this mess.
What if you SBR that Rifle and do a tax stamp and trust on it?
This article appeared on WTOP this afternoon, attributed to ABC Radio - https://wtop.com/maryland/2018/05/atf-cant-save-bump-stock-owners-maryland-ban/
Cliff version is ATF will not create an authorization process and current owners are screwed. At least, that's how I read it.
It seems like including a provision that an existing owner cannot possibly fulfill, through no fault of their own, that results in an outright ban makes for a pretty good case to overturn the law, but I'm not a lawyer.
The article also mentions ATF classifying bump stocks as machine guns, which, according to the writer, would amount to a federal ban.
What if you install one in a rifle that already is a SBR?
What if you SBR that Rifle and do a tax stamp and trust on it?
What if you install one in a rifle that already is a SBR?
That wouldn't have any bearing on anything. In the case of an SBR, the ATF has allowed you to register the rifle (or specifically the lower receiver of the rifle) with them as an SBR. They have not granted you specific permission to own the trigger in said rifle, which is what the MD bill addresses.
The thing we all need to remember here, folks:
Trump has directed Sessions to tell the ATF to make a new rule that will make bumpstocks illegal on the Federal level. ATF has published the proposed rule, which will reclassify bumpstocks / trigger accelerators / etc as machineguns and make them all illegal to own (unless there are oddball ones out there that were made before 1986).
So the Maryland bill is likely going to be moot anyways.
Gotcha. Was wishful thinking
I specifically asked the ATF if binary triggers would change the classification of a SBR, or if SBR's can lawfully be built with binary triggers. They responded with the generic form letter about the new law.