Larry Vickers pled guilty last week to a set of federal charges related to the importation and transfer of various firearms: This settles the mystery of why the ATF seized his collection two years ago. It also highlights something interesting about the way federal law works.
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.
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.