General Geoff
Member
An interesting idea came up from this thread.
Supposedly the Secretary of the Treasury has the power to grant NFA amnesty periods of up to 90 days. Since the BATFE has recently been transferred to the justice department, I'm not sure if the Secretary of Treasury is still able to do this (or if someone else has been given such a power). But if so, imagine the kind of economic stimulus such an amnesty would provide. All domestic manufacturers of semi auto firearms (AR-15s, M14 clones, etc.) would clamor to crank out as many auto sears and selector switches as possible, in the short period of time the amnesty went on.
Maybe such an obvious increase in production (due to obvious demand) would convince congress to at least re-open the registry. Who knows? But if there is still a person in government who has the legal power to grant amnesties, I think we should be writing to him/her.
Supposedly the Secretary of the Treasury has the power to grant NFA amnesty periods of up to 90 days. Since the BATFE has recently been transferred to the justice department, I'm not sure if the Secretary of Treasury is still able to do this (or if someone else has been given such a power). But if so, imagine the kind of economic stimulus such an amnesty would provide. All domestic manufacturers of semi auto firearms (AR-15s, M14 clones, etc.) would clamor to crank out as many auto sears and selector switches as possible, in the short period of time the amnesty went on.
Maybe such an obvious increase in production (due to obvious demand) would convince congress to at least re-open the registry. Who knows? But if there is still a person in government who has the legal power to grant amnesties, I think we should be writing to him/her.