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21st November 2014, 04:33 PM
BREAKING: This New Lawsuit May Strikedown the Federal Machinegun Ban that has Lasted Since 1986 October 31, 2014 By Greg Campbell (http://www.tpnn.com/author/gregc/)
http://www.tpnn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ZTommygun.jpg (http://www.tpnn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ZTommygun.jpg)For those who believe that gun violence is caused by individuals and not firearms themselves, a new lawsuit filed in court on Friday may provide a legal remedy to the unconstitutional machinegun ban that has existed since 1986.
First, a little backstory… (http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/10/foghorn/breaking-lawsuit-filed-allow-registration-new-machine-guns/)
Since 1934, it has been illegal to possess a full-automatic weapon without having paid the proper taxes on it and without having it properly registered. In 1986, however, the task of obtaining a full-auto firearm became infinitely more difficult when lawmakers sneakily enacted legislation that would close-down the machinegun registry and not permit any new approvals for registrations.
Courts later ruled that corporations and trusts are not people and thus are unable to purchase firearms as there is no one person on which to run a background check.
However, when the government closed the registry, they maintained that no person could own a new machinegun- but previously noted, corporations and trusts are not people.
With that in mind, citizens have already attempted to file for new registrations and one even succeeded; however, when the ATF caught-on to their bureaucratic snafu, they quickly revoked the first authorized registration of a machinegun seen in nearly 30 years.
Using that incident, a lawsuit has been filed in Dallas, Texas, (http://www.scribd.com/doc/245057730/Hollis-v-Holder-Complaint) in federal court challenging the ATF statutes and naming Attorney General Eric Holder and ATF Director B. Todd Jones as defendants.
Citing the famous Heller case that affirmed the right to use commonly-used weapons such as the weapons issued to our troops, the lawsuit appears designed to chip-away at the shoddy legal justification for prohibiting the registration of full-auto firearms.
This lawsuit is likely not designed to put the latest-and-greatest full-auto weapons into the hands of each and every America; it is, however, a terrific step towards restoring the uninfringeable right to keep and bear arms afforded to citizens over 200 years ago and an affirmation of the belief that whatever the weapon, whatever the rate of fire, guns are neither good nor bad, but tools that can be used for good or bad regardless of how they operate.
http://www.tpnn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ZTommygun.jpg (http://www.tpnn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ZTommygun.jpg)For those who believe that gun violence is caused by individuals and not firearms themselves, a new lawsuit filed in court on Friday may provide a legal remedy to the unconstitutional machinegun ban that has existed since 1986.
First, a little backstory… (http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/10/foghorn/breaking-lawsuit-filed-allow-registration-new-machine-guns/)
Since 1934, it has been illegal to possess a full-automatic weapon without having paid the proper taxes on it and without having it properly registered. In 1986, however, the task of obtaining a full-auto firearm became infinitely more difficult when lawmakers sneakily enacted legislation that would close-down the machinegun registry and not permit any new approvals for registrations.
Courts later ruled that corporations and trusts are not people and thus are unable to purchase firearms as there is no one person on which to run a background check.
However, when the government closed the registry, they maintained that no person could own a new machinegun- but previously noted, corporations and trusts are not people.
With that in mind, citizens have already attempted to file for new registrations and one even succeeded; however, when the ATF caught-on to their bureaucratic snafu, they quickly revoked the first authorized registration of a machinegun seen in nearly 30 years.
Using that incident, a lawsuit has been filed in Dallas, Texas, (http://www.scribd.com/doc/245057730/Hollis-v-Holder-Complaint) in federal court challenging the ATF statutes and naming Attorney General Eric Holder and ATF Director B. Todd Jones as defendants.
Citing the famous Heller case that affirmed the right to use commonly-used weapons such as the weapons issued to our troops, the lawsuit appears designed to chip-away at the shoddy legal justification for prohibiting the registration of full-auto firearms.
This lawsuit is likely not designed to put the latest-and-greatest full-auto weapons into the hands of each and every America; it is, however, a terrific step towards restoring the uninfringeable right to keep and bear arms afforded to citizens over 200 years ago and an affirmation of the belief that whatever the weapon, whatever the rate of fire, guns are neither good nor bad, but tools that can be used for good or bad regardless of how they operate.