Great breakdown on the Vickers' case. It's too bad that he couldn't get help and fight this through the SCOTUS ruling on the EPA which clearly stated that guidelines were not law.
Am I correct in assuming that any transferable machine gun seized by ATF forever ceases to be a transferable machine gun?
Caetano held that stun guns were in "common use" because there are estimated to be over 200,000 of them out there in legal use. There's a literal registry showing several times that many machine guns that, inherently by virtue of being in the registry, are in legal use.
Busting the guys with huge MG collections over violations of vague laws and stacking the deck against them for plea bargains seems to be a decent strategy for whittling down that number.
Not sure, but probably so unless the ATF decides to auction off the property at some point. Other law enforcement agencies do that from time to time, but not sure if the ATF has ever done it.
Very good info on the hows and whys of the Vickers plea.
Sounds like the usual AFT tactic of cracking down on something that was accepted as perfectly legal before the policy shift.
Great breakdown on the Vickers' case. It's too bad that he couldn't get help and fight this through the SCOTUS ruling on the EPA which clearly stated that guidelines were not law.
Am I correct in assuming that any transferable machine gun seized by ATF forever ceases to be a transferable machine gun?
Caetano held that stun guns were in "common use" because there are estimated to be over 200,000 of them out there in legal use. There's a literal registry showing several times that many machine guns that, inherently by virtue of being in the registry, are in legal use.
Busting the guys with huge MG collections over violations of vague laws and stacking the deck against them for plea bargains seems to be a decent strategy for whittling down that number.
Just a thought.
Not sure, but probably so unless the ATF decides to auction off the property at some point. Other law enforcement agencies do that from time to time, but not sure if the ATF has ever done it.
why would they auction them when they could just hand them out to drug dealers and cartels for free.