"Everyone in here, call or email Your congresspersons, tell them, hands off the 80s.
Try and get Your friends to do the same, get the ball a rolling.
Thats all."
Sadly, I think this issue is a bit too technical
and complicated for a simple letter to a congress critter. The kind that actually get read. I think this is more one of those things they really need a dedicated and knowledgeable think tank holding their hands on, if we can hope to get some decent legislation out of them at the end of the day (at this point I think a legislative fix to NFA/GCA/ATF mandate is what's needed rather than a court settlement or executive order). Pro gun or anti, I would actually be quite content for the legislation to at least make logical sense, for a change
Does anybody know if there is an organization out there actively lobbying for real pro-gun reform that seeks to dramatically change the manner in which these items are regulated? All I can find is anti-BGC's, anti-registration, anti-bans, anti-carry laws, and the like --puny little special issues compared to the principles upon which all the gun regulatory authority is founded.
We can yell "lay off the 80%'s" but;
a) congress doesn't know what those are,
b) "80%'s" aren't defined legally anyway, so protecting them is impossible, and
c) from the reverse argument, we really can't expect congress or the ATF to allow receivers to be made unregulated right up to the very instant they become functional guns (stripped lowers would be non-guns until assembled in such a case)
A knee jerk got us into this mess, I don't think one will get us out (and let's admit it, 98% of the attention the ARES raid is getting is pure knee-jerk "I don't trust them G-men" nonsense that never accomplishes anything).
TCB