Anyone ever really look into these federal laws. Especially 925 and 922... around giving the govt explicit power to determine what they want to allow to be imported based on what they feel are "sporting purposes" (the Attorney General in this case decides).

 

Pretty crazy. Federal laws are very anti-gun. In effect there is a Federal AWB already in place... for imports only. All they need to do is pass a new Federal AWB and copy/paste 925 into it. Boom, anything the AG feels is "non-sporting" is now banned.

 

USC 925

 

(3) is of a type that does not fall within the definition of a

firearm as defined in section 5845(a) of the Internal Revenue

Code of 1986 and is generally recognized as particularly suitable

for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes, excluding surplus

military firearms, except in any case where the Attorney General

has not authorized the importation of the firearm pursuant to

this paragraph, it shall be unlawful to import any frame,

receiver, or barrel of such firearm which would be prohibited if

assembled; or

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/44/925

 

And of course 922® in which we all follow by not "assembling from imported parts" a firearm that the AG feels is "non-sporting".

 

I really hope after anti-constitutional CCW laws are smashed down, we set our sights on these un-constitutional frivolous gun bans.

There is a cottage industry based on 922 US parts counts. Import foreign rifles like WASRs and Saigas, then swap out foreign parts for US made ones. This allows you to take them out of their low-cap configuration. What horseshit!

I built an imported rifle to be 922 compliant, it was pretty damn easy and completely worthwhile.

Yup , pretty easy to "get around" today. The fear is that the next step is they take out the "from imported parts" clause, and we're left from "assembling the gun outside of configuration the AG deems sporting". I suppose I'm guilty of a bit of "the sky is falling" , but I see these portions of the U.S.C. just being prime examples of "reasonable regulation" that is and will continue to be used in order to infringe on our rights.