H.R.1263 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)
Courtesy of Florida demoncrat Ted Deutch, who also is a vegan and an Israel-hating Jew.
The proposed bill would regulate all semi-automatic firearms with a detachable magazine as NFAs, adding them to the same term of the present law along side "dangerous devices." So you'd have to register all detachable magazine semi-auto firearms as NFA devices.
It excludes firearms chambered in .22 rimfire with tubular magazines, which means you'd have to register your Ruger 10/22 but not a Browning SA-22.
How brilliant is that?
But wait, there's more ....
You'd have just 120 days in which to comply. Except the current NFA application processing time is running about seven months. And if you break that down into how many applications the BATF currently can process in a day, the glut created by owners rushing to register just the 16 million-ish AR and AK pattern rifles would create roughly a half-century backlog.
And let's not leave out the penalties, which will apply to every applicable gun owner who can't get their Browning Buckmark registered as an NFA within 120 days:
Section 15.1 NFA.
15.1.1 Criminal.
The acts prohibited by the NFA and prosecutable as Federal offenses are listed in 26 U.S.C. 5861(a) through (l). As provided by 26 U.S.C. 5871, any person who commits an offense shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 10 years or fined. Although the fine specified in the statute is an amount not exceeding $10,000, an amendment to Federal law provides for a fine of not more than $250,000 in the case of an individual or $500,000 in the case of an organization.
And Trump doesn't have a moral leg to stand on to oppose this because he already unilaterally (and unconstitutionally) amended the NFA to arbitrarily add bump-fire stocks to it.


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