Let's write a bill!

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Machine gun. Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun, and any combination of parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.

Manual reloading. The inserting of a cartridge or shell into the chamber of a firearm either with the hands or by means of a mechanical device controlled and energized by the hands.

Fixed ammunition. That self-contained unit consisting of the case, primer, propellant charge, and projectile or projectiles.

Pistol. A weapon originally designed, made, and intended to fire a projectile (bullet) from one or more barrels when held in one hand, and having (a) a chamber(s) as an integral part(s) of, or permanently aligned with, the bore(s);and (b) a short stock designed to be gripped by one hand and at an angle to and extending below the line of the bore(s).

Revolver. A projectile weapon, of the pistol type, having a breech loading chambered cylinder so arranged that the cocking of the hammer or movement of the trigger rotates it and brings the next cartridge in line with the barrel for firing.

Rifle. A weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger, and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire a fixed cartridge.

Chamber. The position from which as part of the normal operation of the weapon the projectile in a unit of ammunition is separated from the rest of the unit.

Machine gun. Any weapon which is designed to shoot and can shoot, or which can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun, and any combination of parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.

Pistol. A weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to fire a projectile from one or more barrels when held in one hand, and having (a) a chamber(s) as an integral part(s) of, or permanently aligned with, the bore(s);and (b) a short stock designed to be gripped by one hand and at an angle to and extending below the line of the bore(s).

Revolver. A projectile weapon, of the pistol type, having a breech loading cylinder so arranged that the cocking of the hammer or movement of the trigger rotates it and brings the next cartridge or set of cartridges into the chamber(s).

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Shot. The activation of the unit of ammunition, or simultaneous activation of multiple units of ammunition, currently chambered, resulting in the projectile or projectiles being fired from the weapon.

Trigger. The primary means of activation on the weapon, which is moved by the user in order to fire the weapon.

the intended effect is to make a malfunctioning (slam firing) semi-auto no longer a machine gun, to legalize the akins accelerator, and to legalize volley guns. please anyone with a better understanding of the law pick over it and point out any unintended side effects or consequences. generally all it does it provide actually accurate definitions (which is how it would be presented).

 

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i didn't want to make ANOTHER thread, but i've been reading more and more about US law in order to write this bill. I've heard the expression that laws are like sausages; it's better not to see them being made. well I guess whoever said that would be unprepared for the modern legal situation. Why don't they teach anything about Administrative law in high school government classes? I had no idea anything like it existed until an hour or so ago, and i took two years of AP US Government courses in highschool. this is the root failure of our society, a lack of transparency not through intentional obfuscation (well, not in most cases), but systematic reinforcement of apathy.
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My point is, why hasn't Olofson pushed for judicial review of 27 CFR Ch.2 subchapter B part 479 subpart b (the definitions section of the ATFs firearms divisions operating rules) under the Administrative Procedure Act? "arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with the law.", that seems to be just about everyones opinion of his case, and therefore the ATFs current regulations (as they are correct in their interpretation, so it is the law itself that is wrong). I have to assume his legal adviser(s) are aware of and have considered this option, i see how it could be a legal third rail (like the tax protester 5th amendment argument), but that in itself would be a huge problem.

back to ranting for a moment, how is this not a big issue? the whole existence of law completely beyond the peoples effect. i'm trying to determine the procedure and limits of how congress can affect the CFR for the purposes of the above bill, and hitting walls that almost make me think it is completely out of their hands. but everything i have ever been taught about the US legal system, it can't be, can it?