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Do you actually know your Firearms Laws?

leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
edited February 2002 in General Discussion
I hate hearing people tells me firearms laws that don't exist, or that one of my firearms isn't leagal, or I shouldn't possess something that I know is legal. People keep making up laws, or just go by what other people say, but no one ever actually reads their laws. I recommend to anyone who hasn't actually read the regulations that apply to them, federal, state, county, and city. Then they should. I had a guy tell me it was illegal for me to use pre-ban magazines in my AR at the gun club the other day. I told him he was an idiot and needed to go read up on firearms laws.I had a guy ask me if my gun was registered. There is no firearm registration in Texas.I have a preban AR, and my neighbor came over to watch TV one night, had it out. He told me he thought it was illegal to own since the assault arms ban, I asked him if he even read it, or if he was aware of what it said, he told me all he new is what he saw on TV, how it was supposed to ban all assault arms. I got out my books and now he's about to buy a new gun...Do any of you have these problems?I can't stand it, sometimes people's ignorance of the laws that they obide by just makes me want to yank my hair out. People just don't know or respect the rights they have, and its allowing them to be taken away.I have some story's I could tell, but it would probably overcrowd the server.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Worse than that is when you hear bogus stuff on firearms laws from employees of gun shops. If anybody SHOULD know, it should be them.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    yea, walmart has to be the worst about that.
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    The biggest problem is folks don't know the difference from Fedral Law, State Law, and Local Law. I've seen them tell someone in Virgina what the law is when they are in California. Big difference!
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  • JudgeColtJudgeColt Member Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About the best evidence of ignorance of the "Assault Weapons" law is the constant stream of people selling or wanting to buy "pre-ban" Ruger Mini-14 and M10/22 rifles, neither of which have ever been assault rifles so have no "grandfathered" status no matter when made. (Of course, one has to qualify that statement with the usual exceptions of the GB Mini-14s and those other rifles already modified into AW form on 9-13-94.) The next best evidence is those selling or wanting bare "pre-ban" AR-15 lower receivers. They mistakenly believe they can now legally build them into "assault weapons." They cannot. Anything that was not in complete AW form on 9-13-94 cannot not now be assembled with or altered with the forbidden features.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Actually, Mini-14s could conceivably be banned in California by now, but of course that doesn't make 'em pre-ban or post-ban anywhere, really. I believe California did ban the rather similar .30 Carbine a couple years after I left the state.As for knowing the gun laws, you're preaching to the choir on that here. But of course you're right about typical experiences in the "outside world."
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's not looking good for my Krinkov from a parts kit, then... is it?
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My all time favorite "misunderstood" law, deals with selling firearms privately in the state of Pennsylvania. Some believe the sale has to go through an FFL or the state police, some think there is noo regulation. The ones who believe it has to go through an FFL, always sigte the law which states any "firearm" must be transfered through an FFL. But if you continue down the page a few paragraphs, the defenition for a "firearm" with respect to the above law, is basically a pistol, and short long guns. Most guns in the state of PA can be transfered or sold privately without an FFL. However, most people, who look up the law, do not read the deinitions section, and assume that ALL sales must be done through an FFL. I have talked to dealers, and they often do not no the law. And I have spoken to state troopers, and they think that it must be done through an FFL. They are wrong.
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