Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!jade!jkh From: jkh@jade.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns Subject: Re: New Firearms Laws Message-ID: <1901@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 15:46:15 EST Article-I.D.: jade.1901 Posted: Thu Dec 11 15:46:15 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 18:38:30 EST Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 30 Approved: jkh@ucbjade Author: cbosgd!erc3ba!jfka@ucbvax.Berkeley.Edu Article: 12:7 In-Reply-To: your article <1716@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Thanks to Mr. Cramer for the summary of the new gun laws. Could he provide the current definition of "armor piercing" as defined in the new laws? I strongly suspect that we can look forward to increased BATF zealousness in locating "machine guns" and "silencers." That organization needs a reason to exist. Already, there has been at least one reported raid on a "machine gun" manufacturer in Utah, which led to no arrests, but lots of media hype. The next logical step is for the BATF to re-define "readily convertible" to include all semi-auto weapons. "Readily convertible" is in the eyes of the beholder. Almost all semi-auto guns firing from an open-bolt position have already been banned by BATF edict. Periodically, attempts to define the semi-auto M14 rifles and their copies as "readily convertible" occur. Should this succeed, expect the flood gates to open as HK 91s and 93, AR15s, etc. become illegal. What's really bad is that now there is NO WAY to register these guns in case of such a re-classification, because civilians may not acquire new machine guns. Of course. I'm just speculating. Jon Kaplowitz cbosgd!erc3ba!jfka