I hope it works out and after the expiration it’s free range.
also suppressors shouldn’t be more than like 40 bucks honestly. it’s basically a metal tube. no microchips in there or sophisticated machinery.
I seen a channel claim 8.X million NFA items are registered so how many individual people own? And any citing?
Can we say common use yet?
Big Plot Twist! ATF Counterattack? NFA Madness Continues
FYI on the recent NFA ruling: be cautious. The big gun rights groups will be more than happy to take your money and declare victory, but none of this is truly settled until the Supreme Court rules on it. And remember all those Flock cameras going up around gun ranges.
This is a major win, but it is not the repeal of the NFA, and it is not a Supreme Court decision.
The court’s reasoning is essentially that the challenged NFA requirements were historically justified under Congress’s taxing power. Congress reduced the tax to $0 for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs, so the court found that the challenged provisions can no longer be justified on that basis. That does not mean everyone can simply ignore the NFA.
This ruling can be appealed, stayed, limited, or reversed. This administration could challenge the issue again, and a future administration could take an entirely different enforcement position. Congress could also restore a tax and attempt to reestablish the constitutional basis for these NFA requirements.
And remember, believing a federal criminal statute is unconstitutional is very different from that statute actually being repealed or definitively struck down nationwide. If the law remains applicable to you, the federal government can still prosecute violations subject to jurisdiction, applicable court orders, statutes of limitation, and other legal requirements.
Bottom line: don’t confuse a favorable lower court ruling with the NFA being dead. Gun rights organizations may celebrate it and happily take your donations, but administrations change, Congress changes, and lower court decisions can be reversed. Until the Supreme Court settles the constitutional question, none of this should be treated as permanent.
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What do you think about this petition? I can edit it but wanted to focus on these being hearing PPE
"The United States typically does one of two things in response to a cert petition. It either files a short response in opposition that is either boilerplate, or it does not file a response. The end result is the same, the cert petition is denied."
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Not this time.
FYI on the recent NFA ruling: be cautious. The big gun rights groups will be more than happy to take your money and declare victory, but none of this is truly settled until the Supreme Court rules on it. And remember all those Flock cameras going up around gun ranges.
This is a major win, but it is not the repeal of the NFA, and it is not a Supreme Court decision.
The court’s reasoning is essentially that the challenged NFA requirements were historically justified under Congress’s taxing power. Congress reduced the tax to $0 for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs, so the court found that the challenged provisions can no longer be justified on that basis. That does not mean everyone can simply ignore the NFA.
This ruling can be appealed, stayed, limited, or reversed. This administration could challenge the issue again, and a future administration could take an entirely different enforcement position. Congress could also restore a tax and attempt to reestablish the constitutional basis for these NFA requirements.
And remember, believing a federal criminal statute is unconstitutional is very different from that statute actually being repealed or definitively struck down nationwide. If the law remains applicable to you, the federal government can still prosecute violations subject to jurisdiction, applicable court orders, statutes of limitation, and other legal requirements.
Bottom line: don’t confuse a favorable lower court ruling with the NFA being dead. Gun rights organizations may celebrate it and happily take your donations, but administrations change, Congress changes, and lower court decisions can be reversed. Until the Supreme Court settles the constitutional question, none of this should be treated as permanent.
I am for the right to carry, but I do have a question that I think deserves honest debate.
If someone can legally possess a firearm and carry it loaded in public without a permit, how do we make sure that person actually knows how to handle it safely?
I am not talking about giving the government discretion to decide who "deserves" to carry. I am talking about basic, objective competence. Can you safely load and unload the weapon, maintain proper muzzle and trigger discipline, and understand the basic legal rules governing the use of deadly force?
The strongest argument against any such requirement is obvious. Once the government gets to set the standard, it also gets the opportunity to abuse it. A simple competency requirement can become expensive classes, excessive fees, long delays, limited access, or some other obstacle designed more to discourage carrying than to promote safety. I take that concern seriously.
Still, I do not think the answer can simply be, "Do I need a permit to post online, go to church, or write to the editor?"
Those rights do not create the same immediate public safety risk when exercised incompetently. Carrying a loaded firearm is closer, in that narrow sense, to operating a car. Yes, driving is a privilege and carrying is a constitutional right, so the government cannot necessarily regulate them the same way. The comparison is about consequences. If you do not know how to operate either one safely, other people can get hurt or killed.
There is also a harder answer that I think should be stated plainly. Some people may believe that any competency requirement creates too much opportunity for government abuse, and that society should simply accept the additional risk that comes with untrained people carrying loaded firearms in public.
That is at least a coherent position, but the cost should not be hidden behind the word "risk." It could mean a negligent discharge in a crowded place, a bystander being shot because someone cannot control a weapon under stress, or an avoidable mistake that leaves someone dead.
If the argument is that those preventable injuries and deaths are an acceptable price for keeping the government completely out of the process, then say so and defend it.
I am not convinced that those are our only choices. It seems reasonable to ask whether we can protect the right to carry while also requiring a narrow, objective, and easily accessible demonstration that the person carrying a loaded firearm in public actually knows what they are doing.
Good
suppressors sold without having to do all that form BS.
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"On August 7, a large coalition of gun rights advocacy groups filed a motion for summary judgment in Padua v. Davenport, a case challenging New Jersey’s outright ban on suppressors. The coalition includes individual plaintiffs and the National Rifle Association, the Second Amendment Foundation, the American Suppressor Association, and Safari Club International, and is led by state groups New Jersey Firearm Owners Syndicate and the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs."