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April 27th, 2019, 07:48 AM #1
Question about NFA
Who exactly decides what items do and do not fall under the NFA?
Is it Congress? Treasury Dept/ATF?
What's the procedure for adding/removing things?
Stroke of the pen? Endless argument with hoplophobics in Congress?
I'm curious about the actual mechanism after listening to the President address NRA.
TIA
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April 27th, 2019, 08:54 AM #2
Re: Question about NFA
The atf decides if something falls under one of the categories in the nfa there are written descriptions they are supposed to follow but they do what they are told.
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April 27th, 2019, 09:21 AM #3
Re: Question about NFA
So, in theory, the President or Treasury Dept could instruct the BATF to add or delete items without involving Congress, no?
I'm trying to resolve the President's glad-handing the NRA convention with what power he might have to actually do something if he actually wanted to do so...
I was sort of hoping there might be some sort of a bureaucratic excuse for how little has actually been done as far as NFA reform.
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Re: Question about NFA
The ATF has been transferred from the dept of treasury to the Dept of justice. Because of that the US attorney general now oversees the BATF.
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April 27th, 2019, 10:13 AM #5
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April 27th, 2019, 11:28 AM #6
Re: Question about NFA
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April 27th, 2019, 11:33 AM #7
Re: Question about NFA
Just my opinion without doing a lot of research to back anything up.
NFA was a legislative act of Congress signed into law in ~1934 which defined the items which were to be controlled by it- Machine guns, silencers, SBR/SBS, AOW are the only categories that I can think of.
The ATF's only responsibility here is to determine if items fall into one of those categories. They can not add to or remove any of those categories"It seems that the Constitution is more or less guidelines than actual rules"
My feedback: http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=305685
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April 27th, 2019, 12:19 PM #8
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This pretty much sums it up. Add DD, destructive devices and you have it. Keep in mind that a law change removing let's say silencers and machineguns from the NFA would make them illegal in PA and 16 other states. They are actually illegal now but can be possessed due to an exception in our prohibited offensive weapons law.
Bob D
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April 27th, 2019, 02:39 PM #9
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April 27th, 2019, 03:40 PM #10
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