Gun Control Laws and Native American Reservations

[Midwest]

Native American Reservations have their own legal system and courts and are considered Sovereign land from what I understand.

So does the 1968 GCA and NFA laws apply to Native American Reservations?

If so, then how can the Reservation or the land be Sovereign?

If the 1968 GCA and NFA Laws don't apply.

Can any of the Native American Nations build their own machine guns without prosecution?

Thanks

 

[joem1945]

Those are very good questions. But the feds can and do seem to have different outlook on the laws as the situation changes. Who was the guy (Lenard something) that's prison when the feds went on a reservation to arrest him there was a gun fight.

 

[buckhorn_cortez]

American Indian Tribal Reservations are classified as "domestic dependent nations" and are subject to federal laws. They are constrained by, but not subordinate to, other parallel entities (the federal government).

Congress has the ultimate authority in regards to matters affecting American Indian Tribes. The Tribes are subject to federal laws as they have been passed by Congress, so any federal gun law applies to Indian Tribes.

Indian Tribes can make their own gun laws so state gun laws only apply on federal and state road right-of-ways. If you want to carry a gun on Indian land off of a state or federal road right-of-way, you need permission of the Tribe.

 

[buckhorn_cortez]

Who was the guy (Lenard something) that's prison when the feds went on a reservation to arrest him there was a gun fight.

Leonard Peltier. He was convicted of first degree murder for the shooting deaths of two FBI agents at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He is currently serving two consecutive life terms at the United States Penitentiary, Coleman in Florida.

 

[Frank Ettin]

Native American Reservations have their own legal system and courts and are considered Sovereign land from what I understand...

That's a gross oversimplification, as touched upon in post 3.

 

[Midwest]

Thanks for the answers.
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