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In reply to the discussion: Can you imagine believing this? [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)61. hand grenades are not illegal
and was not addressed in federal gun laws until the National Firearms Act was amended in 1968. There simply wasn't a market for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructive_device
When this amendment passed, the IRS sent out press releases to pick up the forms at the local post office. There also an amnesty to register your war trophy MP-40 or whatever. The quality of journalism being what it is, some local papers reported that you need to register your guns at the post office. My local paper did that, and my mom and I went to register her .25-06 rifle. So did half the town. The clerk measured the barrel and and pointed to the poster that showed what needed to be registered.
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If so few are capable of governing themselves how fewer still are capable of governing others?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#53
I also see a daily report of police excesses. What's a unicorn to think now?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#65
I used to think I should be allowed to own whatever I wanted so long as I kept it to myself ...
marble falls
May 2016
#21