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Timestamp: 2017-12-11 17:00:10
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FROM Dec. 2003 thru Present Day
These new federal gun laws,
NOT included in the current printed edition,
Assault Weapon Ban Expiration (The "Clinton-19")
Omnibus Spending Bill for 2003, P.L. 108-7 (Not included below yet)
Federal gun law continues to accumulate at an alarming rate, with no end in sight. Each law passed since the last published edition (Edition 4, Copyright 2003) of Gun Laws of America is described below.
GUN LAW REDUCTION HIGHLY UNUSUAL
Yesterday was a great day for America -- for the first time in years a federal gun law has actually come OFF the books, for a change.
Gun laws, which have been increasing at a furious rate since the 1960s are actually a bit lower today, an almost unheard of event. Starting with the Gun Control Act in 1968, 74,426 new words of gun law have been added by Congress.
"It's less than a 1% reduction, only 729 words, but it's a good first step," said Alan Korwin, author of the unabridged federal guide, Gun Laws of America. "This clearly demonstrates the value of placing limits on our laws. Most statutes should be drafted with expiration dates, as this one wisely was," he said.
The 1994 Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act had been misleadingly nicknamed the assault-weapons ban by the news media. It only affected single-shot firearms and was never a ban, contrary to several inaccurate news reports, and biased sources used uncritically by the press. Assault, Korwin notes, is a type of behavior, not a type of hardware. The affected guns, the "Clinton-19" are NOT machine guns as many news reports inaccurately stated or implied.
"These guns will not come 'back' into public hands now as widely reported, because they never left," Korwin says. The so-called ban never banned any guns consumers owned. It only prevented manufacturers from selling new ones to the public, inflating prices dramatically for the millions currently in the marketplace.
New rifles however, which will undoubtedly flow into the consumer market now, will help restore prices to lower levels seen before the manufacturing moratorium was put in effect under President Bill Clinton.
People who bought such guns during the cessation of manufacturing over the past ten years, may find themselves holding highly overpriced merchandise as prices will likely fall dramatically. Prices for normal capacity magazines over ten rounds, the kind police routinely use, will also likely drop to reasonable levels, and infringement magazines of 10 rounds or less will become clutter, Korwin opines. Since the police face the very same criminals the public does, forcing the use of small, inadequate magazines for the police or for citizens is unsafe, he says.
America had 94,333 words of federal gun law on Sunday, but today the total is only 93,604. Another 3,284 words also came off, in the form of a long list of guns known as Appendix A, that were not affected by the law. When those are taken into account, the reduction is 4.4%, bringing the current total of federal gun law to 90,320 words.
Further adjustments to the word count will occur when Korwin's company, Bloomfield Press, completes its annual analysis of the recently enacted national concealed carry law for active and retired police officers, armed cargo pilots, gun provisions in an omnibus spending bill, renewal of the undetectable-gun ban, and technical changes caused by the expiration of this unpopular 1994 law, including definitions and penalties that no longer apply.
Repealed sections include:
18 USC §921(a)(30)
18 USC §922(v)
18 USC §922(w)
18 USC §923(i)
18 USC §924(a)(1)(B)
18 USC §924(c)(1)(B)
I have reviewed the following Q&A about the assault-weapon ban repeal, posted by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, and found it to be accurate. It must have been pretty difficult for them to write this.
From: http://www.atf.gov
For September 12, 2004
By statute, the prohibitions relating to semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices expired on September 13, 2004. As a result, certain sections of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, and its implementing regulations, 27 CFR Part 478, are no longer in effect. Open Letter to Federally Licensed Firearms Importers and Registered Importers of U.S. Munitions Import List Articles
Changes in Federal Law As Of September 13, 2004 Relating to Semiautomatic Assault Weapons (SAWs) and Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Devices (LCAFDs).
A: The definition provision for "semiautomatic assault weapon", codified at 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(30). The penalty provision for violating 922(v), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(1)(B). The penalty provision for violating 922(v) during the commission of a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B); The requirement that SAWs and LCAFDs manufactured after September 13, 1994, be marked with a date of manufacture next to the serial number, codified in 18 U.S.C. § 923(i). (ATF regulations (27 C.F.R. § 478.92(a)(2)) implement section 923(i) and require, effective July 5, 1995, SAWs and LCAFDs manufactured after September 13, 1994 to be marked "Restricted law enforcement/government use only" or, for weapons manufactured for export, "For export only". These requirements also are no longer in effect.)
Q: Are SAWs and LCAFDs marked "Restricted law enforcement/government use only" or "For export only" legal to sell to civilians in the United States?
A: LCAFDs are no longer prohibited from importation but they are still subject to the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act. An approved Form 6 import permit is still required. Non-sporting firearms are still prohibited from importation under sections 922(l) and 925(d)(3) of the GCA. Because the vast majority of SAWs are nonsporting, they generally cannot be imported. If an importer has an approved Form 6 import permit for LCAFDs with a restriction stamp on it related to the ban, the importer may import LCAFDs using the permit and disregard the restriction stamp. Importers may apply for a new permit if they prefer. If an importer has an approved Form 6 import permit for SAWs with a restriction stamp on it related to the ban, the importer should comply with the restriction because the firearms most likely are nonsporting. Temporary importation of SAWs and LCAFDs is now lawful under the provisions of Title 27, CFR, section 478.115(d) because firearms that are temporarily imported are not required to meet sporting purpose requirements.
A: All provisions of the National Firearms Act (NFA) relating to registration and transfer of machineguns, short barreled rifles, weapons made from rifles, short barreled shotguns, weapons made from shotguns, any other weapons as defined in 26 USC section 5845(e), silencers, and destructive devices still apply. However, it is now lawful to possess NFA firearms that are also semiautomatic assault weapons, as long as all provisions of the NFA are satisfied. USAS-12 and Striker12/Streetsweeper shotguns are still classified as destructive devices under ATF Rulings 94-1 and 94-2 and must be possessed and transferred in accordance with the NFA.
This bill, quietly signed into law by President Bush on July 22, 2004, and generally ignored by the mainstream news media, frees specified current and former law-enforcement officers from state laws that ban carrying concealed handguns. Federal gun law grows by 1,037 words with this act. It took 12 long years of intensive lobbying by the Virginia-based police group, the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, to get Congress to accept a national concealed-carry provision, even for these off-duty and former police.
The bill is highly controversial to gun-rights activists, who view it as an elitist provision to arm the "proper authorities," giving those people, and excluding the public, from constitutionally guaranteed rights. The LEAA's claim that "America's men and women in blue deserved the right to protect themselves and their families from threats that didn't go away at the state line," certainly applies constitutionally to people who aren't "in blue."
On the other hand, the law does arm nearly two million civilians, forced Congress to move in a direction of recognizing and requiring the right to keep and bear arms, and plans are in place to continue the momentum toward some form of public national right to carry. And it is certainly true that people "in blue" do face "criminal grudges that didn't end at the officer's retirement party." The scope of the obstacles faced is revealed in the fact that it took more than a decade to get such a provision in place for such a select group as the police.
Parallel efforts for national carry rights for the public, currently underway, tend to focus on reciprocity or recognition for permit holders only, and is also highly contentious, since only about 1% of the public has signed up for state "rights permits," which include taxes, testing, fingerprinting, expiration dates, and onerous federal and state watch lists. Most estimates suggest that more than 50% of all Americans own firearms, leaving almost all of us out of such plans.
(For contrast, see the proposed American Historical Rights Protection Act, which would simply eliminate any bans on the non-criminal possession of firearms for all Americans.)
As always, the general and plain-English descriptions below are guidelines only, and should be checked against the actual words of the statute, which follow verbatim.
The Gist: No state law may prevent a qualified law enforcement officer (QLEO, described below), who is carrying proper ID, from carrying a concealed firearm, if the firearm has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce. (The phrase about commerce is used to help establish congressional authority to do this -- overruling state laws -- using the commerce clause authority in the Constitution.)
The overruling of state law does not include any state law about private people banning or restricting firearms on their property, or state governments banning or restricting firearms on state or local government property.
Under this law a QLEO is: 1 - a government agency employee who has specified legal authority to enforce the law and statutory powers of arrest; 2 - is authorized by the agency to carry a firearm; 3 - is not the subject of any disciplinary action; 4 - meets the standards, if any, to regularly qualify in using a firearm; 5 - is not under the influence of drugs or alcohol; and 6 - is not banned under federal law from receiving a firearm.
Proper identification is a photo ID issued by the government agency where the person is employed as a law enforcement officer.
A concealed firearm does not include a machinegun, a silencer, or any destructive device, as those items are defined by federal law.
All of the above applies to a qualified retired law enforcement officer (QRLEO). A QRLEO is a person who: 1 - retired in good standing as a law enforcement officer (except for reasons of mental instability); 2 - before retiring had specified legal authority to enforce the law and statutory powers of arrest; 3 - was regularly employed as a LEO for an aggregate of at least 15 years before retiring (with special consideration for a probationary period due to a service-connected disability); 4 - has a non-forfeitable right to retirement-plan benefits from the agency; 5 - has in the last 12 months, at the person's own expense, met the state standards for active LEOs to carry firearms; 6 - is not under the influence of drugs or alcohol; and 7 - and is not banned under federal law from receiving a firearm. The law appears to require QRLEOs to requalify, under item 5 above, at their own expense, every 12 months.
Proper identification for a QRLEO is a photo ID from the agency that formerly employed the person as an LEO, indicating that the person has qualified or otherwise meets the standards within the last year to carry a firearm of the same type the person is carrying concealed. A separate state certification of firearm qualification, in addition to photo ID from the agency, is also acceptable.
Machineguns, silencers and destructive devices are banned for concealed carry by QRLEOs.
The background and history of HR 218 can be reviewed at leaa.org. Regulations needed to implement the new law fairly nationwide are in development. I'll circulate news on that when there is some.
AT THE SECOND SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the twentieth day of January, two thousand and four
(c) As used in this section, the term qualified law enforcement officer' means an employee of a governmental agency who--
(e) As used in this section, the term firearm' does not include--
(3) any destructive device (as defined in section 921 of this title).'.
926B. Carrying of concealed firearms by qualified law enforcement officers.'.
(c) As used in this section, the term qualified retired law enforcement officer' means an individual who--
Aliens Admitted Under Nonimmigrant Visas
(y) Provisions Relating to Aliens Admitted Under Nonimmigrant Visas.
In this subsection
(A) the term alien has the same meaning as in section 101(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 (a)(3)); and
(B) the term nonimmigrant visa has the same meaning as in section 101(a)(26) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 (a)(26)).
(2) Exceptions. Subsections (d)(5)(B), (g)(5)(B), and (s)(3)(B)(v)(II) do not apply to any alien who has been lawfully admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa, if that alien is
(B) an official representative of a foreign government who is
(i) accredited to the United States Government or the Governments mission to an international organization having its headquarters in the United States; or
(3) Waiver.
(A) Conditions for waiver. Any individual who has been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa may receive a waiver from the requirements of subsection (g)(5), if
(B) Petition. Each petition under subparagraph (B) shall
(C) Approval of petition. The Attorney General shall approve a petition submitted in accordance with this paragraph, if the Attorney General determines that waiving the requirements of subsection (g)(5)(B) with respect to the petitioner