Reagan still signed the bill.
Reagan signed the bill because the NRA specifically asked him to. He did not want to do it, but NRA threw us MG owners under the bus.
NRA at the time was willing to trade whatever it had to to get FOPA signed, and MG owners were fine, since again we've always been considered the outcasts of the shooting community.
NRA said at the time that it would be no big deal to go back and undo Hughes.
Well, you see what that got us. No, Reagan signed it but it was all NRA.
That's why I am an NRA member today, to try to remind them who they are SUPPOSED to represent, all gun owners not just those that want to hunt with grandads shotgun.
Can you see it makes me a little angry even all these years later?
It's pretty sickening honestly. If it came up today, with the Internet the way it is, 50% of the folks on THR would own an automatic firearm, maybe more.
We wouldn't be a small percentage of the community and this crap would never happen.