H.R.8--Would it apply to ANTIQUE firearms?
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Art Eatman
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Yes, it would have to be passed by the Senate and then signed by the President.
FWIW: I have read that a handwritten single-page letter is considered by corporations and by Congresscritters to be representative of at least 300 voters. Maybe more, in today's world of email.
FWIW: I have read that a handwritten single-page letter is considered by corporations and by Congresscritters to be representative of at least 300 voters. Maybe more, in today's world of email.
MachIVshooter
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The actual text of the proposed legislation doesn't seem to be available to us yet.
18 USC 921 (a)(3) defines firearm and provides the specific exemption for antiques. I'm not an attorney, but I don't see how any new firearm legislation would include regulation of antiques without specific language to do so.
*do note that antiques and weapons exempted for use of antique ignition system are still considered deadly weapons, so if any legislation concerns the possession, use, transfer, transportation or concealed carrying of deadly weapons rather than specifically firearms, there is no such exemption.
18 USC 921 (a)(3) defines firearm and provides the specific exemption for antiques. I'm not an attorney, but I don't see how any new firearm legislation would include regulation of antiques without specific language to do so.
*do note that antiques and weapons exempted for use of antique ignition system are still considered deadly weapons, so if any legislation concerns the possession, use, transfer, transportation or concealed carrying of deadly weapons rather than specifically firearms, there is no such exemption.
alsaqr
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MachIVshooter
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Thanks. Don't know why it wouldn't come up for me before.
There is no definition section attached to the bill that would amend the definition of "firearm" to be more inclusive than 18 USC 921 (a)(3), and it is to become part of 18 USC 922, so I would think this bill uses that definition same as everything else in 18 USC 922
Art Eatman
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If one person cares enough to actually write a letter, it's likely that 300 others are in agreement. This apparently was concluded from marketing studies about feedback. Some congresscritters have said that they personally read snail mail; staffers read emails.
Hypnogator
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The only fly in the ointment is that snailmail will not get to them until L-O-N-G after it's mailed. Goes to someplace out in the sticks where it is opened and checked for anthrax, radiation, exotic poisons, etc., etc., etc. before ever being allowed in the same building as its intended recipient.
You can also still fax your letters to come congress critters.The only fly in the ointment is that snailmail will not get to them until L-O-N-G after it's mailed. Goes to someplace out in the sticks where it is opened and checked for anthrax, radiation, exotic poisons, etc., etc., etc. before ever being allowed in the same building as its intended recipient.
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