cslinger
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Ok first let me start off by saying that I am asking this for purely educational purposes and if you know me you would know that I take great care to keep my firearms 100% legal in every way. I am not trolling for help in breaking any law.
Second, this is not something I need to contact a lawyer about since I am not looking at doing anything I was just curious if anybody on the forum knows or has a answer to this.
My question is let's say someone is in possession of a bunch of CURRENTLY Illegal bobbles, you know really dangersous stuff like LEO ONLY capacity magazines, maybe a deadly folding or collapseable stock, semi auto pistolgripped 9 shot street howitzer and who knows maybe this beast even has come into possession of a dreaded post ban flash hider having, bayonet baby sticking, black rifle.
Ok so as of TODAY our boy above is technically looking at big time jail/fines should he actually be caught and prosecuted.........lets put aside the fact that unless he actually commits a real crime the chances of being caught and prosecuted are negligable.
So let's say our boy get caught bringing all his toys out to the local range and Agent Schumckatelli just happens to be taking in a little shooting time himself and is looking for a promotion at work. (NOTE:ASSUMPTION IS OUR BOY ISN'T TOO BRIGHT)
Ok so it's May 2004 and our boy gets arrested and charged with illegal possession of blah blah blah and blatent disregard for blah blah etc. and most of all criminal stupidity.
Now fast forward a couple of months. All of the laws that made everything above illegal magically go away like some ancient magical spell of legend or something. Now based on our Judicial system our boy probably doesn't even have a trial date yet.
So what happens to our boy? Can he be found guilty for breaking a law that suddenly is no longer a law. Say this happens on Sept 3, 2004 and come midnight all the evil magazines magically turn back into pumpki......I mean legal items?
So how does the law system view laws like this. Yes this is an extreme example but let's just say some poor schmuck who doesn't know any better actually gets caught with a collapseable stock post ban AR and get's arrested. One day hes illegal the next he is not. Can he actually be held after the law sunsets?
NOTE ALL OF THIS ASSUMES THE DEATH OF THE AWB AND THAT SAID PERSON WOULD ACTUALLY GET CAUGHT AND CHARGED WITHOUT COMMITTING ANY REAL CRIMES
Just a thought on the convoluted laws.
Second, this is not something I need to contact a lawyer about since I am not looking at doing anything I was just curious if anybody on the forum knows or has a answer to this.
My question is let's say someone is in possession of a bunch of CURRENTLY Illegal bobbles, you know really dangersous stuff like LEO ONLY capacity magazines, maybe a deadly folding or collapseable stock, semi auto pistolgripped 9 shot street howitzer and who knows maybe this beast even has come into possession of a dreaded post ban flash hider having, bayonet baby sticking, black rifle.
Ok so as of TODAY our boy above is technically looking at big time jail/fines should he actually be caught and prosecuted.........lets put aside the fact that unless he actually commits a real crime the chances of being caught and prosecuted are negligable.
So let's say our boy get caught bringing all his toys out to the local range and Agent Schumckatelli just happens to be taking in a little shooting time himself and is looking for a promotion at work. (NOTE:ASSUMPTION IS OUR BOY ISN'T TOO BRIGHT)
Ok so it's May 2004 and our boy gets arrested and charged with illegal possession of blah blah blah and blatent disregard for blah blah etc. and most of all criminal stupidity.
Now fast forward a couple of months. All of the laws that made everything above illegal magically go away like some ancient magical spell of legend or something. Now based on our Judicial system our boy probably doesn't even have a trial date yet.
So what happens to our boy? Can he be found guilty for breaking a law that suddenly is no longer a law. Say this happens on Sept 3, 2004 and come midnight all the evil magazines magically turn back into pumpki......I mean legal items?
So how does the law system view laws like this. Yes this is an extreme example but let's just say some poor schmuck who doesn't know any better actually gets caught with a collapseable stock post ban AR and get's arrested. One day hes illegal the next he is not. Can he actually be held after the law sunsets?
NOTE ALL OF THIS ASSUMES THE DEATH OF THE AWB AND THAT SAID PERSON WOULD ACTUALLY GET CAUGHT AND CHARGED WITHOUT COMMITTING ANY REAL CRIMES
Just a thought on the convoluted laws.