Repeal the 1986 Hughes amendment

[yankeefan98121]

Long shot (pun intended) but hey it's worth it...this goes side by side with the NFA petition in another thread

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/repeal-1986-hughes-amendment

[Joe_K]

Signed

Velocitas, Opprimere,
Violentia Operandi

[wctriumph]

Signed.

[osok-308]

Signed

[TFOGGER]

Signed, and posted to Facebook. The more that know, the more likely that we'll reach 100K.

[KevDen2005]

Signed as well...curious as to which incident the petition is referring to where a police officer used an automatic weapon in a homicide, anyone know?

[TFOGGER]

Signed as well...curious as to which incident the petition is referring to where a police officer used an automatic weapon in a homicide, anyone know?

Eric Garner in CA, perhaps?

Edit: Found this

https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=248937


There have been two murders committed with legally owned machine guns
1988 a police officer in Ohio killed a police informant with a MAC 11 .380

In1992 a doctor killed another doctor who he had been stalking with a MAC 11 in 380, also in Ohio

Source (http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcfullau.html)

[KevDen2005]

Eric Garner in CA, perhaps?

Edit: Found this

https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=248937

Thanks for posting. I had an incident in mind but wasn't sure if it qualified exactly.

[Chief_of_Scouts]

There have been two murders committed with legally owned machine guns
1988 a police officer in Ohio killed a police informant with a MAC 11 .380

In1992 a doctor killed another doctor who he had been stalking with a MAC 11 in 380, also in Ohio

Source

See, the laws must be working if that is all that has happened. [Sarcasm2]

[KevDen2005]

See, the laws must be working if that is all that has happened. [Sarcasm2]

You son of a......

[TFOGGER]

I had this discussion with a friend on Faceplace last night. He asked why anyone needed a machine gun. I countered with "Why do you need an Audi RS4?". He gave the usual "cars have a legitimate purpose...blahblahblah". I pointed out that cars kill far more people each year than guns, he countered with "proportionately, cars are safer", when in fact there are more guns in private hands than there are cars registered in the US, so on that metric, cars are almost 3 times as deadly as guns. Conversation over.

[ray1970]

I think the majority of people I've seen shoot should own a machine gun. It would increase their likelihood of actually hitting their target.










Or they could just practice and hone their skills.

[CS1983]

I think the majority of people I've seen shoot should own a machine gun. It would increase their likelihood of actually hitting their target.

Or they could just practice and hone their skills.

Perhaps Allah does not will for them to hit the target.

[Shooter45]

Long shot by far but signed.

[Skip]

I hope this passes! I can start buying shoelaces again.

[Joe_K]

https://youtu.be/qeYOBM0wulU

Velocitas, Opprimere,
Violentia Operandi

[Dlesh123]

Petition failed. Was just shy of 2000 signatures short of 100,000.

[KevDen2005]

Petition failed. Was just shy of 2000 signatures short of 100,000.

I swear gun owners are the laziest group of people sometimes....remember our petition for the magazine ban a few years ago. It barely got off the ground let alone enough signatures. No one seemed like they could be bothered to go sign these things. Then when they want an SBR, suppressor, or magazine they will jump through all the government hoops to get those things legally or drive to Wyoming when needed. But won't sign a damn petition. Then they will bitch about not being able to own machine guns and how someone should make a law allowing them too. They don't want to take part in their own political process.

[yankeefan98121]

I swear gun owners are the laziest group of people sometimes....remember our petition for the magazine ban a few years ago. It barely got off the ground let alone enough signatures. No one seemed like they could be bothered to go sign these things. Then when they want an SBR, suppressor, or magazine they will jump through all the government hoops to get those things legally or drive to Wyoming when needed. But won't sign a damn petition. Then they will bitch about not being able to own machine guns and how someone should make a law allowing them too. They don't want to take part in their own political process.

I agree 100%

[KevDen2005]

I agree 100%


I mean I didn't sign the petition but everyone else should...













Just kidding.

[Dlesh123]

Since it is time limited, there is a need to promote beforehand an upcoming petition drive. That way you have a better chance of reaching the goal. Another week, and it might of got the additional two thousand signatures. As is, people don't know about it for a couple weeks and then it is a mad rush to get there in the last two.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Yes, you need to publicize these things before starting the petition -- unless you have some kind of famous celebrity who can magically get 20-50,000 signatures by posting to Facebook or Twitter or something. Today's update is the first I heard of this.

[Irving]

Yes, you need to publicize these things before starting the petition -- unless you have some kind of famous celebrity who can magically get 20-50,000 signatures by posting to Facebook or Twitter or something. Today's update is the first I heard of this.

This is pretty much how GoFundMe works. Almost nothing goes "viral" that isn't already planned and the money is almost always already pledged before the GoFundMe is ever announced. The exception is celebrities that have large audiences to help drum up support.