NFA Items In Crimes

[SmeeAgain]

I'm curious... Has there ever been a documented case where a registered NFA item has been used in a crime?
By that I mean by the registered owner, not some low-life thief.

 

[MachIVshooter]

A few.

If you narrow it down to only violent crimes, the number gets quite small.

Having said that, there are gonna be issues with reporting, as ATF generally can't be bothered to answer LEA inquiries about whether or not an NFA item is registered and to whom, so in the absence of a stamp tying the item to the suspect, it will probably have to be assumed that the item in question is stolen or contraband.

 

[SmeeAgain]

A few.

If you narrow it down to only violent crimes, the number gets quite small.

Of course I was asking about USING a registered NFA item in the commission of a crime, not the NFA item somehow being a crime itself.
Which has been my thoughts all along... Anyone who goes to the time, effort and expense to properly obtain & possess such item(s) isn't likely to go out & do something stupid.

 

[halfmoonclip]

Showing government logic, or Tip O'Neil's effort to stick a poison pill in the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, we got a ban on new select fire weapons.
Whether Class III stuff was ever used in crime doesn't signify when the Honorables are considering laws to propose or pass. So it goes.
Moon

 

[The Glockodile]

I won't dare use my M16 to rob the local bubble gum store.

That thing rests polished and lubed, on display on my 2nd Amendment Shrine...

 

[MachIVshooter]

Showing government logic, or Tip O'Neil's effort to stick a poison pill in the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, we got a ban on new select fire weapons.
Whether Class III stuff was ever used in crime doesn't signify when the Honorables are considering laws to propose or pass. So it goes.
Moon

That was the Hughes amendment to 1986 Volker-McClure (FOPA). LPCAA was signed into law by W. in 2005.

 

[SmeeAgain]

It's my own fault for trying to make sense of stupid laws... created by people who know little to nothing about firearms.

 

[starnbar]

When I was on the job there was a case where a victim was shot with a Colt Deluxe 1921 Thompson select fire in a bar in Hillsborough County Fl. The guy got too friendly with the perps wife and when victim went to the local watering hole the wifes hubby walked in the bar and unloaded a full 30 round magazine in the guy from about 5 yards away. There is a reason they called the Thompsons choppers.

 

[Conelrad]

NFA owners are quite passionate about their guns.

This was, after all, a crime of passion...

Conelrad