Why no help in RKBA fight?

[Justin Moore]

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last" - Winston Churchill

 

[2dogs]

The last federal gun law repealed was in 1998 when the section of the Brady law requiring a 5-day waiting period for handguns was replaced by a National Instant Check System for all guns.

Technically, was that a repeal? Wasn't the Brady law written such that the 5 day waiting period would be ended when the NICS was ready to go online? Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Brett Bellmore]

No, you're right. That wasn't a repeal, it was an existing provision of the law kicking in after a delay.

And 1986; If memory serves, that was when we got the existing machine guns grandfathered in, and were stripped of the right to buy newly manufactured machine guns, even if we were willing to pay a punative tax. Some "repeal".

 

[gun-fucious]

the further NJ and CA slip into gun banning
the more members the NRA adds...

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Technically, was that a repeal? Wasn't the Brady law written such that the 5 day waiting period would be ended when the NICS was ready to go online? Correct me if I'm wrong.

No, the law was written that way; but the NRA still had to fight to even then as the Clinton administration had released less than $192,000 of several million earmarked for the creation of this database and was arguing that its implementation should be delayed because after five years the database was still incomplete.

And 1986; If memory serves, that was when we got the existing machine guns grandfathered in, and were stripped of the right to buy newly manufactured machine guns, even if we were willing to pay a punative tax. Some "repeal".

That wasn't the repeal I was speaking of. The 1986 act repealed certain portions of the 1968 Gun Control Act. A couple of the positive changes it had was it limited ATF inspections of FFLs to one per year without a warrant. Before this, ATF could put any FFL it wanted out of business simply by forcing them to close for ATF inspections whenever the ATF chose to conduct one - and the ATF got to choose time and duration.

Another positive added by the 1986 bill was that it made it against federal law for the feds to have any form of centralized registration of firearms.

Here is another big important positive of the law - FOPA 1986 also specifically defined that people who occasionally sold a firearm at a gunshow were not "engaged in the business of selling firearms". Without that exemption, think of where we would have been with the various gunshow bills proposed during the Clinton administration.

Text of 1986 FOPA:
http://www.uh.edu/~dbarclay/rm/mcclure.htm

Now you can argue that the NRA should not have sold the class III people down the river to get their bill; but there isn't any question that it repeals portions of the 1968 gun control act.